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1935
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S. S. Van Dine's intelligent, insufferable amateur sleuth Philo Vance is the protagonist of The Casino Murder Case....
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1935
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In this comedy, a con artist gets elected to the chamber of commerce in his home town. He then goes there with three fellow...
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1935
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Oklahoma's own Will Rogers stars in In Old Kentucky. The storyline is in the grand tradition of most films about the...
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Ezra Martingale
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1935
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A best-selling nonfictional book of the 1920s provided the title for this Will Rogers vehicle. Rogers plays a small town...
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1935
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Screenwriter Preston Sturges never lets the facts get in the way of a good story in this colorful filmed biography of...
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1935
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Radio baritone Joe Morrison was being groomed for stardom by Paramount when he was top-billed in One Hour Late. Morrison is...
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1935
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Director Josef Von Sternberg and his greatest discovery, Marlene Dietrich, worked together for the last time on this...
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1935
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1934
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W.C. Fields is in fine fettle as small-town grocer Harold Bissonette (pronounced Biss-o-NAY). Harold dreams of becoming a...
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1934
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Elmer and Elsie was adapted from To the Ladies, a play by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. Former movie tough guy...
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George Simpson
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1934
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Harold Lloyd plays Ezekial Cobb, a missionary's son who has spent his entire life in China. Cobb is sent to his father's home...
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1934
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In this fluffy romance, a young woman fights against the narrow-minded residents of her small town. The trouble begins when...
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1934
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Usually consigned to the supporting cast, eccentric comic actress ZaSu Pitts was occasionally rewarded with a leading role....
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1934
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Baby Face is a good example of the kind of spitfire lead female characters that appeared in the cinema of pre-code Hollywood....
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1933
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Warren William plays a high-powered ambitious executive who unflinchingly steamrolled his way to the top without regard for...
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1933
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1933
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Aerial footage distinguishes this romantic-triangle melodrama set among pilots in a flying circus. Jill (Sally Eilers) loves...
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1933
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1933
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A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Chester Morris stars as ambitious...
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1933
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A pre-Hopalong Cassidy William Boyd is the robust star of this logging camp melodrama which also featured a very young Ginger...
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1932
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Warner Bros.' hard-hitting chain-gang movie was a faithful adaptation of the similarly titled autobiography of Robert Elliot...
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1932
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In this drama, the son of a shipping tycoon is left to reflect upon his life after his lover abandons him. He decides that...
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1932
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Ride Him, Cowboy was the first entry in John Wayne's "B"-western series for Warner Bros. Wayne plays John Drury, a handsome...
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1932
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William Farnum toplines this drama, as a character known only as The Drifter. Employed as an itinerant lumberjack, he lands...
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1932
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Two small-town youths head for the Big Apple and somehow get mixed up with mobsters during a visit to the title park in this...
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1932
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Joan Blondell, borrowed for the occasion from Warner Bros., earned top-billing in this delightful Hollywood parable, but the...
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Mr. Gashweiler
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1932
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Alfred E. Green directs the political satire The Dark Horse, starring Bette Davis early in her career. The progressive party...
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1932
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1931
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In this western, an orphan who is discovered alone in the desert is raised by a kindly family. The only dark spot in their...
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1931
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Two of Paramount's best contract comedians made a rare joint appearance in Dude Ranch. Jack Oakie heads the cast as Jennifer...
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1931
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This Depression-era comedy takes place in the boarding house run by the indomitable Sarah Austin (Edna May Oliver). Sarah's...
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1931
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A boxer and his girl try to dissuade their friend from getting involved with a Mafioso's gal. ~ Kristie Hassen, Rovi...
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1931
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1931
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A pompous executive has a hard time admitting that his hard-working, devoted secretary is really the one pulling the strings...
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1931
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The popular silent-film screen team of Richard Arlen and Mary Brian was carried over into talkies with such films as Burning...
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James P. Morgan
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1930
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Lawyer Wyn Huntley (Jack Mulhall) is a lion in the courtroom, but a lamb when it comes to women. In love with the beautiful...
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Mr. Walker
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1930
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Tom Sawyer, Paramount's 1930 Christmas release, was the first talkie version of Mark Twain's beloved novel. A rapidly...
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1930
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1930
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Intending to get value for money out of their house leading man Rex Lease, Tiffany Studios cast the personable actor in...
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1930
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1930
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Pa Fisher
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1930
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In this high-spirited satire of competitive sports, boxer Marco Perkins is creamed during a fight and decides to play polo...
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Jim Perkins
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1930
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Here we go again. Sailor "Searchlight" Hogan (Jack Oakie) has a yen for every pretty girl who crosses his path. Imagine his...
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1930
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Comedian Frank Fay and director Michael Curtiz reportedly despised one another at sight, and their mutual animosity tends to...
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1930
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Clara Bow, the "It" girl of the silent screen, goes through the motions of the Cinderella yarn Love Among the Millionaires. A...
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1930
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The 1929 Wall Street crash was still two months in the future when Warner Bros.' Gamblers was released in the late summer of...
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1929
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In this college-campus musical, a Broadway star finds herself the proud owner of a North Carolina college. The star's boy...
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1929
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In her second talking picture, Loretta Young stars as Gladys Cosgrove, the ticket-taker at a small-town movie house. Although...
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Prosecutor Dan Jackson
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1929
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Two young people get married for all the wrong reasons in this romance. Both are wealthy and are trying to run away from...
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Joan's Guardian
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1929
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Clara Bow and her sister Jean Arthur are wisecracking department store employees with ever-roaming eyes for eligible...
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Lem Woodruff
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1929
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Tired of his sedentary postwar existence, Col. Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond (Ronald Colman) offers his services as adventurer for...
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1929
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In his movie debut, Rudy Valley portrays the crooning saxophone player who falls in love with a beautiful young woman....
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Officer Tuttle
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1929
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1929
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In this melodrama set during WW I, a gangster joins the army and is promoted to major. He then returns from war torn Europe...
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1929
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In this college romp, a free-spirited aunt decides to use a $10,000 insurance settlement to send her niece to college. She...
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1929
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Pa Randall
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1928
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Veteran stage actor/playwright James Gleason made his film debut in the Universal comedy The Count of Ten. In fact, Gleason...
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1928
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Perkins
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1928
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Her Sanitarium's Caretaker
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1928
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Bebe Daniels once again plays an intrepid -- and somewhat foolhardy -- girl reporter in Paramount's What a Night!. A spoiled...
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Editor Madison
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1928
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Richard Dix's star power goes a long way towards assuring the success of Easy Come, Easy Go. Dix plays radio announcer Robert...
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Jim Bailey
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1928
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This average Universal series western starred Hoot Gibson as Andy Barden, a cowboy who along with two others inherit a gold...
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1927
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Arriving in the small town of Toptown to participate in the local rodeo, Buck Sims (Hoot Gibson) meets lovely Pony Blenning...
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1927
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Easy Pickings was one of a rash of "old dark house" comedies produced in the wake of 1926's The Bat. This time Mary Ryan...
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1927
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1927
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1927
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Jack Holt stars as Ben Wade, a rancher framed on a robbery charge by crooked lawyer Harkness (Charles Sellon). The villain is...
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Harkness
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1927
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The Speeding Venus is Emily Carol (Priscilla Dean), forced by circumstance to embark on a cross-country motor trip. It all...
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1926
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With Mack Swain and Arthur Houseman in the cast, it's obvious that this murder mystery-melodrama has a lot of comic relief....
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1926
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College students Jimmy (Robert Agnew) and Muriel (Anne Cornwall) fall in love, but their romance is broken up when Jimmy...
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Doc Morton
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1926
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It's hard to tell at times whether director Roland West was aiming for laughs or thrills in The Monster, but this...
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The Constable
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1925
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The most popular canine star of his era, Rin Tin Tin is falsely accused of killing his owner, an old prospector...
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Simon Hardy
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1925
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Written and directed by Henry McCarthy, this water-logged silent melodrama from poverty row company Gotham sunk soon after...
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Jimson Weed
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1925
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Thomas Meighan plays Tom Clark, who left his home town to make good -- and wound up as part owner of a hapless gas station....
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1925
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This comedy-drama is mostly a collection of different stories, all intertwined, with a cast that consists of solid...
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1925
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If the plot to this breezy romantic comedy sounds like something that would have starred the late Wallace Reid, there's a...
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1925
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This first of three film versions of the George S. Kaufman/Marc Connelly stage comedy Merton of the Movies stars...
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Pete Gashwiler
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1924
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1924
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Except for the pretty backgrounds, pert Shirley Mason is just about the only bright spark in this otherwise tired and cliché...
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Captain
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1923
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When wealthy Rockwood dies, he wills his fortune to his four grown children, providing they're all married by a certain date....
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1923
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As a stage play, The Bad Man was a success because of its hilarious and colorful dialogue. That was lost when it was made...
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1923
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