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- June 10 – The Austro-Hungarian dreadnought battleship SMS Szent István is sunk by two Italian MAS motor torpedo boats off the Dalmatian coast. June 15–23 – Battle of the Piave River, the last major Austro-Hungarian attack on the Italian Front, which fails. The Battle of the Piave is the decisive battle of World War I on the Italian Front.
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Northern Italy, June 1918: Directed by Bille August, Michael Schultz, Carl Schultz. With Sean Patrick Flanery, George Hall, Jay Underwood, Veronica Logan. Old Indy snatches a parking place from under the noses of two squabbling commuters, then begins to lecture them about something he learned while in the Italian Alps during the Great War ...
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- Bille August, Michael Schultz, Carl Schultz
- 1993-04-17
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Opening bookend
In a crowded parking lot, two cars race for an open space only to crash into each other, causing the drivers to step out and begin arguing. When they get back into their cars and pull back for a confrontation, Professor Jones slips between them to park his green Plymouth in the space, and both drivers step back out to yell at him for taking it. Indy tells them to calm down because they're so busy fighting that they forgot what they were fighting about, as he did when he was a spy behind enemy...
Closing bookend
Indy tells the two drivers not to be in such a hurry that they "don't take time to smell the flowers along the way." Rather than take his lesson to heart, the drivers resume yelling at Indy as he walks off.
Cast and characters
1. Sean Patrick Flanery as Indiana Jones 2. George Hallas Old Indy 3. Jay Underwood as Ernest Hemingway 4. Veronika Logan as Giulietta 5. Pernilla August as Mamma 6. Martin McDougall as Joe 7. Adam Serwer as Umberto 8. Anna Lelio as Granny 9. Renato Scarpa as Papa 10. Carlo Zardini Lacadella as Sentry 11. Lex van Delden as Voska 12. Eduardo Cuomo as Luigi 13. Andreas Sportellias Austrian Soldier #1 14. Walter Di Maias Austrian Soldier #2 15. Michel Di Francoas Austrian Soldier #3 16. Vittorio...
Locations
1. Arabia (Mentioned only) 2. Italy 2.1. Abruzzi (Mentioned only) 2.2. Dolomites 2.3. Feltre 2.4. Frascati (Mentioned only) 2.5. Rome (Mentioned only) 2.6. Sanctuary and Convent of the Holy Martyrs Victor and Corona 3. Chicago (Mentioned only) 3.1. University of Chicago (Mentioned only) 4. Le Havre (Mentioned only) 5. New Jersey (Mentioned only) 6. Pamplona (Mentioned only)
Miscellanea
1. Kansas City Star (Mentioned only) 2. Rat (Mentioned only) 3. Running of the Bulls (Mentioned only)
Production
1. Produced by: Rick McCallum 2. Created by: George Lucas 3. Music by: Laurence Rosenthal 4. Written by: Jonathan Hales 5. Directed by: Bille August & Carl Schultz(bookends) Principal photography for this episode took place from September 30 to October 22, 1992, with location filming in Feltre, Italy, as well as in the Dolomiti Bellunesi National Park and Tre Cime Nature Park using the surviving tunnels and trenches originally carved out during World War I.While filming in the Dolomite Mounta...
Continuity
Despite this episode's title, Ernest Hemingway's war injury occurred in Fossalta di Piave, Italy, on July 8, 1918. Hemingway observes that Indy has already been awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Médaille Militaire. (At this point in the war, Indy would also be eligible for the Belgian Commemorative Medal of the 1914–1917 African Campaigns). However, the latter was not specifically awarded for being wounded, as Hemingway says, until after the First World War. At some point before the events...
Television
"Northern Italy, June 1918" was first broadcast on April 17, 1993.
Home video
This episode was edited into Tales of Innocence in 1996, which was released on VHS in 1999 and on DVD in 2008 (as part of The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Volume Three, The Years of Change).
Soundtrack
Selected tracks from the episode were included on the official soundtrack The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Volume Four, released in 1994, though the album did not include Indy's bathtub rendition of the 1911 song "Oh, You Beautiful Doll," his drunken duet with Hemingway of the 1903 song "Sweet Adeline," or the various pieces of music they play when trying to attract Giulietta's affection. Composer Laurence Rosenthalalso offered one of his tracks from the episode as a sample on his personal...
Under the command of Armando Diaz, the Italian Army managed to secure the front line alone the Piave River in June 1918 following a major attack from the enemy. However, this victory cost them 100,000 men and only pushed morale even lower.
November. November 3 – Armistice of Villa Giusti ends warfare between Italy and Austria-Hungary on the Italian Front during World War I. The armistice was signed in the Villa Giusti, outside of Padua in the Veneto, northern Italy, and was to take effect 24 hours later.
Jun 14, 2018 · 11 things you need to know about the battle of the Piave River. Friday (15 June) will mark 100 years since the start of the Battle of the Piave River. Fought between 15 and 23 June 1918, the battle was a victory for the Italian army against the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
The Second Battle of the Piave River (or Battle of the Solstice ), fought between 15 and 23 June 1918, was a decisive victory [3] [4] for the Italian Army against the Austro-Hungarian Empire during World War I, as Italy was part of the Allied Forces, while Austria-Hungary was part of the Central Powers.
It involved a series of military engagements in Northern Italy between the Central Powers and the Entente powers from 1915 to 1918. Following secret promises made by the Allies in the 1915 Treaty of London , the Kingdom of Italy entered the war on the Allied side, aiming to annex the Austrian Littoral , northern Dalmatia and the territories of ...
