The 16th movie in the series is called Tales of Innocence and it starts in June of 1918. The war is on the downward slide and Indiana is in Northern Italy in the first half of the story. He's sneaking across the front line between Italy and Austria to try to get the Austrian troops to give themselves up. The Alps scenery is very nice but not quite as pretty as the young Italian lady he's courting. He's got a rival in ambulance driver Ernest Hemmingway, played by Jay Underwood, but neither of them know that it's a hopeless cause, her heart belongs to another. In the last half of the movie Indy moves to Morocco and takes an assignment with the French Foreign Legion. There's a traitor that needs catching. He also meets Lowell Thomas who's travelling with Edith Wharton. Indy has a brief fling with her.
I enjoyed this one pretty much even though the two episodes that make up the movie have little to do with each other. There's some shooting and the Alps are pretty. There's a bit of romance and comedy. I had heard of Edith Wharton but didn't know much about her novels. Not something I would want to read for the most part. The Wikipedia says that the phrase "Keeping up with the Joneses" refers to her father's family. There are some nice documentaries that go along with the movie that spend some time covering Wharton and Lowell and Hemmingway's lives. As always the documentaries total time is more than twice the length of the movie.
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