Over the course of a Hollywood career that spanned five decades, William Castle directed dozens of movies and earned a...
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2007
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Narrated by actor Alec Baldwin, this documentary profiles the adventurous, contentious, and very talented director William...
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1995
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Tommy Tune and others talk about the unique childhood acting and dancing career of Shirley Temple in this video. Her...
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1994
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Aftermath: A Test of Love begins where most TV movies end. Based on fact (as recorded in Gary Kinder's book Victim), the...
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1991
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1987
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Twenty-one years after ending its original ABC prime-time run in 1965, the Hanna Barbera animated adventure series...
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1986
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Michael J. Fox is among the young sitcom stars enlisted for this made-for-TV teen film, about a battle between the rich,...
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1983
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This adaptation of William Shakespeare's drama of an aging king and the deceit and treachery that envelops his family as they...
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Kent
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1982
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This fun, silly thriller written and directed by Michael Crichton manages to combine the dramatic murders of beautiful...
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1981
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1981
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Archie envisions a life free of financial worries when Edith is chosen to appear in a detergent commercial. Unfortunately for...
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1978
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A trenchant satire of "trash TV," Network seems to grow only more relevant with each passing year. Howard Beale (Peter Finch...
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1976
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How to Stuff a Wild Bikini is considered to be the strangest of the "Beach Party" movies. Frankie (Frankie Avalon) is off in...
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1965
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This made-for-TV Disney effort stars Kevin Corcoran as Johnny, an orphan who becomes a drummer for the Union Army during the...
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1963
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Drug kingpin Louie Madikoff (Harold J. Stone) ends up half a million dollars in the red when several of his dope shipments...
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1962
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Part of the Walt Disney series, Tales of Texas John Slaughter, this film finds Geronimo warring with a group of settlers,...
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1960
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1960
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1960
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Originally aired on TV from Walt Disney, these episodes are combined to form a feature about a Texan man who is forced to...
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1960
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Out of favor with the Mob, disgruntled numbers runner Al Morrissey (Jay C. Flippen) is poised to "tell all" to Elliot Ness...
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1960
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As famous for the gimmick with which the film was shown as for its genuinely spine-tingling story, The Tingler follows a...
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David Morris
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1959
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1959
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1959
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1959
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Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward made a rare joint TV appearance in this live Playhouse 90 broadcast of 1958. Newman is cast...
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Herbie
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1958
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Frontier peacekeeper Sheriff Galt (Sterling Hayden) faces a crisis of conscience in The Iron Sheriff. In the aftermath of a...
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Benjie
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1957
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "Winter Dreams" is brought to life in this 1957 Playhouse 90 presentation. John Cassavetes...
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Larry Gordon
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1957
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Among the reasons that Doris Cole (Hillary Brooke) has left her husband Peter (John McNamara) is that she once awoke to find...
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1957
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In one of his rare movie starring assignments, William Talman (Hamilton Burger on TV's Perry Mason) plays a dual role in The...
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Toby Bonham
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1957
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Upon his release from prison, petty crook Jackie Blake (Darryl Hickman) is "adopted" by Martha and Ralph Collins...
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1957
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1956's Tea and Sympathy is a diluted filmization of Robert Anderson's Broadway play. The original production was considered...
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Al
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1956
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In this western, a forward thinking hero joins in on the promotion of camels as the perfect desert pack animals. He embarks...
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1954
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Marjorie Main is the whole show in the Universal programmer Ricochet Romance. Playing the outspoken new cook at a rundown...
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1954
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The horrors suffered by American prisoners of war at the hands of the North Koreans during the Korean war provide the basis...
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1954
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An offbeat blend of World War II drama and "Arabian Nights" escapism, Destination Gobi is all the more odd in that it is...
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Wilbur Cohen
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1953
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Sea of Lost Ships is partly a tribute to the U.S. Coast Guard, but mostly a typical Republic Pictures melange of action,...
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1953
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During World War II, a Military Air Transport Command DC-3 piloted by a civilian crew is forced down in northern Labrador....
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1953
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1951
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Though made in 1951, Criminal Lawyer has the feel of a 1930s film, right down to the casting of Pat O'Brien in the lead. The...
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1951
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In Lightning Strikes Twice, Ruth Roman stars a Shelley Carnes, a stage actress who champions the cause of Richard Trevelyan...
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1951
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Owen Johnson's novel The Lawrenceville School Stories (compiled from short stories originally published in...
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Tough McCarthy
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1950
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In this light drama, Clark Gable once again played his stock-in-trade role of a rogue with a heart of gold. Charlie King...
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1949
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This modern-day "Faust" variation benefits from a superb cast. Thomas Mitchell plays Joseph Foster, an honest judge who wants...
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1949
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As shown by the clock face that opens and closes the film, The Set-Up takes place within a compact 72 minutes, with the...
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1949
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Dexter Franklin
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1949
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Pine-Thomas Productions' "Big Town" film series, based on the radio program of the same name, came to an end with Big Town...
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Skinny Peters
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1948
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1948
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"Boys Town" goes to turn-of-the-century St. Louis in this moving drama that chronicles the love of a determined priest...
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Matt Davis
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1948
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A kind-hearted Native American adopts a homeless, orphaned Chinese boy who has only a horse to his name. This touching...
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1947
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Darryl Hickman, older brother of Dobie Gillis star Duane, toplines this campy juvenile delinquency film directed by...
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1947
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In this melodrama, a young juvenile delinquent convinces other teens to join his gang. The gang raids a warehouse and there...
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1947
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In The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, relationships formed in childhood lead to murder and obsessive love. The wealthy Martha...
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1946
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1946
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Based on a famous book by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., this grueling saga of shipboard oppression is set in the mid-19th century....
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1946
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1946
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If there were any doubts that little Shirley Temple was all grown up by 1945, those doubts were disippated by her appearance...
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1945
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There's slightly more fancy than fact in this lavish film biography of legendary American composer George Gershwin, but oh!...
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1945
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Famed WW1 aviator Eddie Rickenbacker once more entered the public's consciousness during WW2 when, while serving as an Air...
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1945
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The tumultuous world of horse-racing provides the backdrop of this drama. Directed by Raoul Walsh, Salty O'Rourke features...
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1945
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This was the seventh entry in Paramount's "Henry Aldrich" series, and there were still two more to come. Per the title,...
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1944
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In this melodrama, a doctor returns to his home town to set out his shingle. He was born on the poor side of town and so has...
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1944
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Sally Benson's short stories about the turn-of-the-century Smith family of St. Louis were tackled by a battalion of MGM...
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1944
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Jean-Pierre Aumont (billed simply as Pierre Aumont) makes his American film debut in Assignment in Brittany. Set during WW2,...
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1943
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One can only imagine the reaction of arch-conservative MGM head Louis B. Mayer when Song of Russia first tumbled over the...
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1943
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Author William Saroyan's corn-shucking brand of sentimentality works wonders in this 1943 filmization of his novel. Narrator...
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1943
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Regarded by many aficionados as the best of the "Henry Aldrich" series, Henry Aldrich, Editor is a master blend of laughs and...
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1942
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If you're wondering what Citizen Kane might have looked like had it been produced by MGM, we submit for your approval Keeper...
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1942
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A surprisingly good MGM Our Gang comedy, the one-reel Going to Press is an on-target spoof of a typical "adult" crime film....
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Frank
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1942
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This upbeat war-time tale chronicles the ordeal of ardently American munitions plant worker Joe Smith (Robert Young), whose...
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Johnny Smith
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1942
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Tommie Gargan
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1942
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Young America is not so much a Jane Withers vehicle as a 73-minute advertisement for the 4-H clubs of America. Cast against...
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1942
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In this North western, Indians orphan two boys who are then raised by a Mountie. The boys are different as night and day:...
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1942
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This wildly uneven "Dead End Kids/Little Tough Guys" entry focuses on young Tom Barker (Billy Halop), whose older brother...
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1941
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In this drama, a young woman shows two dogs at the championship competition at Madison Square Garden and when the two dogs...
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Billy
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1941
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In this sequel to the 1938 boxoffice hit Boys Town, Spencer Tracy repeats his Oscar-winning role of Father Flanagan, with...
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Flip
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1941
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The adaptation of Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of dirt-poor Dust Bowl migrants by 4-time...
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1940
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This is the third film based on a story by Lajos Biro and Jules G. Furthman. The first two were silent films,...
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1940
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"Over the hill" at the tender age of 12, Shirley Temple closed out her 20th Century-Fox contract with the musical seriocomedy...
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1940
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A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic....
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1940
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Imagine the dismay of those hapless TV station managers who've booked the 1940 Martha Raye vehicle The Farmer's Daughter in...
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1940
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In this B movie actioner, a plucky female cub reporter is determined to get her boss a front page scoop and so finagles a...
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1940
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Former child star Jackie Cooper headlines this sentimental behind-the-scenes comedy drama. He plays an ex-child star who now...
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Billy Doran
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1940
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