As a longtime big Hollywood star and hitmaker, Ford had already achieved an immortality of a kind. It’s pretty clear from his newest venture, the overstuffed if not entirely charmless “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” that while Indy may not in fact be immortal, the brain trust overseeing this installment wishes he were. They haven’t simply brought the character back for another go, they have also given him a digital face-lift. That said, the altered Indy is cognitively dissonant; I kept wondering what they’d done to — or perhaps with — Ford. “Raiders” was created by Spielberg’s pal, George Lucas, who saw it as a homage to the serials that he’d loved as a kid.

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Persons: Steven Spielberg, ”, Harrison Ford’s, Dr, Henry Walton Jones Jr, Spielberg, Ford, “ Indiana Jones, “, Indiana Jones, — Ford, Spielberg’s, George Lucas, Lucas, Humphrey Bogart Organizations: “ Raiders, Indy, Hollywood, Raiders Locations: Kingdom, “, Sierra Madre