Guy Kibbee, moviedom's archetypal small-town bigshot, stars in RKO Radio's Don't Tell the Wife. On this occasion, Kibbee,...
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1937
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Eccentric professor Einfeld (Lee Kohlmar) is lecturing a select group of scientists at a darkened planetarium when one of the...
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1936
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A remake of the earlier The Lone Rider (1930), The Man Trailer once again starred Buck Jones as Track Ames, a fugitive from a...
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Gorman
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1934
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Police Car 17 is one of a handful of non-westerns made for Columbia by cowboy star Tim McCoy. Motor patrolman Tim Conlon...
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1933
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A young man rebels against his brutal foster-father in this low-budget Western directed by Robert North Bradbury. Bradbury's...
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1932
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Before he settled down to a long career as a jovial character actor, Lloyd Corrigan functioned as screenwriter and director...
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1931
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William Powell stars in this drama as William Foster, a gifted defense attorney with a gift for making cases go his way....
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1930
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1929
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Gangster boss Egan (Sam Hardy) manages to beat a murder rap by framing his mistress Marion (Margaret Livingston) for the...
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McManus
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1929
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1928
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Not to be confused with 1924's On the Stroke of Three, this 1928 actioner (based loosely on a play by Joseph LeBrandt) was...
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1928
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1927
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Popular leading lady Leatrice Joy was copacetically teamed with "fading star" Charles Ray in Nobody's Widow. After a...
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1927
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Skyrocket was a vehicle for non-actress Peggy Hopkins Joyce, a former Ziegfeld dancer who managed to get herself into the...
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Edward Kimm
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1926
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Part Time Wife was inspired by a racy novelette originally seen in the pages of Spicy Stories magazine. The happy marriage...
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Allen Keane
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1925
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This melodrama, the first release from a small-time independent company called Gotham, is an old-fashioned thriller. David...
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1925
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Cecil B. DeMille's century-hopping extravaganza The Road to Yesterday begins in the present (1925, that is). Wealthy...
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1925
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1923
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John Hempstead (House Peters), a former actor, now serves as the benign religious leader of a small community. Marian Dournay...
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1923
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This mystery-melodrama had a lot of action and featured a good cast. Railroad magnate Luke Carson (William Worthington) has...
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1923
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Fading star William Russell was miscast in this comedy-drama, which neglected to use his well-known fighting skills. Although...
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Al Keeley
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1923
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Paramount starred Agnes Ayers for the first time in this tragedy, adapted from the novel by Sir Gilbert Parker....
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1922
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Director Marshall Neilan brought his cast and crew to Montana for this extravagant re-telling of the famous last stand at...
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1921
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This drama, made a year before William Desmond Taylor was mysteriously murdered, is one of the few films he directed which...
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1921
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A man who believes he is a murderer travels the world to escape his past in this often confusing crime drama. Richard Dix...
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1921
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Polly Hopkins (Mildred Harris) belongs to a family of squatters living in Silent City. The poor squatters are constantly at...
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1920
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Gretchen Barker (Gretchen Lederer) has gotten herself involved with a group of German spies in the U.S. This is particularly...
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1919
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Van Twiller Yard (Wallace Reid) has drifted from his well-to-do roots and landed on the skids. Along with several other...
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1918
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The seeker of the eponymous revenge in this five-reel western is Alva Leigh (Edith Storey), whose fiancé was killed under...
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Donald Jaffray
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1918
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Louise Glaum, who outside of Theda Bara was perhaps the screen's most popular "vamp," headed the cast of Shackled. Glaum was...
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Walter Cosgrove
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1918
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This Universal drama starred minor mid-1910s star Grace Cunard. Lena Rogers (Cunard) supports herself and her brother Paul...
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1917
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Character actor Theodore Roberts had to carry this film all on his own, which was a near-impossible task. He plays country...
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1917
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One of many "kiddie" pictures which glutted the marketplace in 1917, The Little Pirate spotlighted little Zoe Rae, a...
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1917
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1916
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Though many of Cecil B. DeMille's earliest films were based on plays and novels, The Dream Girl was a complete original,...
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1916
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Norma Talmadge, already a star but not yet a STAR, played the eponymous heroine in 1916's Martha's Vindication. To protect...
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1916
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Railroad worker Beppo Puccini (Charles West) seeks to please his young daughter Marie by proposing to Bianca Pastorell (Signe...
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Beppo Puccini
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1915
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The dissolute Hanson Landing (Charles West) has seduced and exploited Wynona Ware (Lucille Younge), the trusting woman who...
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Hanson Landing
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1915
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1914
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The direction of 1914's His Last Dollar has often been attributed to D.W. Griffith. However, since Griffith was preoccupied...
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1914
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1914
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1912
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Cherubic character actor Otis Harlan stars as Goodrich Mudd, the "black sheep" of the film's title. The bane of his prominent...
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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The Old Actor was produced by the Eclipse Company, one of the lesser film firms of the pre-1910 years. Unable to find work...
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1912
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1912
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1912
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Filmed during the Biograph Company's yearly winter excursion to sunny California, this one-reel Western melodrama features...
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1912
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1912
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A wagon train is attacked by marauding Indians in this typically grisly Biograph one-reel western melodrama preserved in the...
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1911
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1911
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This simple and very effective melodramatic short film was a landmark in its day; in fact, today it is still a fine example...
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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Mary Pickford was popular enough in early 1911 to be identified by name in the trade magazine Variety's review of...
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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D.W. Griffith's The Two Paths is frequently written off as a "potboiler," but, in 1911 at least, any one of Griffith's...
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1911
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1911
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1911
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Among the many villains in D.W.Griffith's 1916 epic Intolerance were those self-styled "social uplifters" who presumptuously...
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1910
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1910
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1910
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This D.W.Griffith-directed Biograph melodrama is set during the Russian Revolution. No, not the successful 1917 coup, but...
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1910
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1910
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1910
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The unfortunate title is the only truly "racist" aspect of this Biograph one-reeler. Set in the Old West (actually the...
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1910
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1910
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Despite its title, this Biograph half-reeler is a comedy. The plot is the old one about two poverty-stricken souls pretending...
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1910
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Thanks to constant television exposure in the early 1950s, The Message of the Violin is one of the best-known of...
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1910
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1910
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1910
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An excellent early D.W.Griffith effort, Her Terrible Ordeal was completed the first week of December, 1909, and released six...
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1910
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No relation to the 1910 D.W.Griffith production of the same name, the 1913 release The Iconoclast was a three-reeler from the...
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1910
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This Biograph "temperance melodrama" was filmed at the company's Bronx Studios, with location work completed in...
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1910
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By 1910, D.W. Griffith was far too busy to personally direct all of Biograph's films, thus he legislated authority to such...
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1910
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A widower (George O. Nicholls) must raise his young daughter by himself. He gets a job at a pigeon farm. He falls in love...
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1908
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