Produced, directed and cowritten by former child star Wesley Barry, Racing Blood was distributed in the US by 20th...
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1954
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1954
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Mutated spiders, mad geniuses, childlike mental patients, gold-digging blondes, and vengeful little people are only part of...
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1953
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Craig Stevens offers a seminal version of his "Peter Gunn" TV characterization in Allied Artists' Murder Without Tears....
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1953
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The second of two Three Stooges comedy shorts laboriously filmed in unfunny 3-D, Pardon My Backfire featured the boys as...
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1953
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Stanley Kramer's production unit at Columbia Pictures was known for its willingness to tackle subject matter that was not...
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1952
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This anthology film assembles five respected directors and a top-notch cast to bring a handful of stories by the great...
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1952
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Hans Christian Andersen was Sam Goldwyn's final production for RKO Radio release, and also the producer's last Danny Kaye...
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1952
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1950
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With Dallas, Gary Cooper revived his long-dormant association with westerns. Cooper plays ex-Confederate officer Blayde...
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1950
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The hero of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is Howard Roark (Gary Cooper), a fiercely independent architect obviously patterned...
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1949
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Though not acknowledged by contemporary reviewers, Colorado Territory is a westernized remake of the 1941 crime drama...
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1949
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Virginia Mayo is Flaxy Martin in this complicated Warner Bros. melodrama. Flaxy is a bad girl but good company, especially...
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1949
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Love leads a man to his most evil deeds and forces him to change his ways in this Western. After being handed a dishonorable...
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1948
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For their first independently-produced vehicle, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello chose to appear in a remake of the 1939 Universal...
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1948
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In this slick melodrama, a sort of film-noir for women, a nightclub singer has an affair with an unhappily married San...
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1947
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Veterinarian Ronald Reagan contracts anthrax from treating diseased cows in this horsey melodrama from Warner Bros. In fact,...
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1947
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A woman struggling to rebuild her life becomes the victim of uncharitable rumors in this sudsy drama. After the recent death...
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1946
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In this film noir with romantic overtones, con man and cardsharp Nick Blake (John Garfield) returns home after serving in...
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1946
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The People's Choice was one of a handful of mid-1940s attempts to launch a series of 16-millimeter "mainstream" feature films...
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1946
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How Dooo You Do? offers two refugees from radio's Eddie Cantor Show, Bert Gordon and Harry Von Zell, as an erstwhile comedy...
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1946
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Filmed (in 16 mm) at Big Bear Lake, CA, and directed by stuntmen Richard Talmadge and Harvey Parry, this minor comedy-drama...
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Kelsey
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1946
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The Three Stooges are inept electricians in this comic short. That's no surprise since their last jobs were as peanut brittle...
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1946
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In this typical Vera Vague 2-reel comedy, the scatterbrained Vera mistakes a stage magician, Bluebeard the Great (Barton...
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1946
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Bringing Up Father was the first of a series of Monogram comedies based on the popular comic strip by George McManus....
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1946
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A little over a year after this Three Stooges short was made, Curly Howard would suffer a stroke and go into retirement. But...
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1945
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With Universal nearly out of the "B"-grade horror film business by 1945, it was up to Monogram to take up the slack with...
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1945
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One of the more remarkable aspects of this "East Side Kids" comedy is that, for the first time, one of the "Kids" is a girl,...
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1945
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1945
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Written, produced, and directed by the White brothers, Jules and Jack, this two-reeler starred the Three Stooges in a...
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1945
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Incendiary Blonde is a highly entertaining if historically suspect biopic of "Queen of the Nightclubs" Texas Guinan. As...
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1945
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In this mystery, a detective and his secretary go on vacation and end up solving a murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1944
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When their short-order restaurant -- The Jive Cafe -- only serves up mounting bills, the Three Stooges enter Curly in a...
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1944
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The wartime housing shortage in Washington DC is the basis for this comedy. Several attractive young ladies rent a single DC...
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1944
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At 49 minutes, Murder on the Waterfront was the shortest-ever Warner Bros. B picture. Alas, brevity is not the soul of wit in...
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1943
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The fact that star Errol Flynn had been recently embroiled in a real-life rape trial only served to increase the box-office...
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1943
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True to Life stars Dick Powell as a radio writer in search of saleable material. He comes up with a weekly sitcom about a...
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1943
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No relation to the 1950 Frank Capra film of the same name, the 1943 Technicolor musical Riding High is a by-the-numbers...
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1943
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In this entry in the "Lone Wolf" series, the sleuth and former jewel thief, the Lone Wolf finds himself accused of killing a...
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1943
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Practically everybody on the Warner Bros. lot shows up in the wartime morale-boosting musical extravaganza Thank Your Lucky...
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1943
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X Marks the Spot was the first of eight brisk wartime-oriented melodramas, each running slightly under an hour, produced and...
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1942
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1942
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Dickens
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1942
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Murder in the Big House was a remake of the 1936 Warner Bros. programmer Jailbreak. In his first starring role, Van Johnson...
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1942
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Maybe Errol Flynn was never the war hero that he often played, but he was a capable boxer, and Gentleman Jim makes full use...
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1942
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In This Our Life is not a "for the ages" classic of the Golden Age of Cinema, but as a highly effective and entertaining...
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1942
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Director Curtis Bernhardt hadn't wanted to make Juke Girl, but he was under contract to Warner Bros. and had to tow the line...
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1942
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This parody of gangster flicks centers on an incarcerated gangster who decides to reform after he is released from Sing...
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1942
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1942
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The direction of Warner Bros.' Lady Gangster is credited to one "Florian Roberts," who on closer examination turns out to be...
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1942
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Michael Lanyard, the reformed criminal known as the Lone Wolf, is played in this Columbia B picture by the suave...
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1941
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The big-band mystique of the 1940s was explored by Blues in the Night. Future directors Richard Whorf and Elia Kazan star as,...
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1941
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Author Hartzell Spence's popular biography of his preacher father was the source for One Foot in Heaven. Fredric March stars...
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1941
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Though history is distorted almost beyond recognition in Warner Bros.' They Died With Their Boots On, audiences in 1941 ate...
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1941
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A seemingly quiet Midwestern town is the hiding place for a number of sordid secrets in this melodrama based on Henry...
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1941
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The title of this series entry may strike some as a tad redundant: After all, isn't crook-turned-sleuth Michael Lanyard, aka...
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1941
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1941
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Invisible Ghost is far from the best of Bela Lugosi's Monogram vehicles (if indeed there is such a thing), but with...
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1941
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Warren William is back as suave thief-turned-sleuth Michael Lanyard, alias the Lone Wolf, in Columbia's The Lone Wolf Keeps a...
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1940
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In this entry in the long-running series, the reformed master jewel thief rushes to help a lovely heiress whose pearl...
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1940
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In this third of RKO's "Mexican Spitfire" series, star Lupe Velez doesn't get any further west than Reno, Nevada. Lupe feels...
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1940
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Teenaged soprano Gloria Jean plays the Little-Miss-Fixit heroine in Universal's Little Bit of Heaven. The most precocious...
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1940
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In this 15-episode serial, Detective Spike Holland must solve the mystery of Garr Castle. He does so after he is hired to...
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1940
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The lady in question in this delightful whodunit is Joan Bradley (Jean Muir), a former secretary who is about to marry her...
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1940
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1939
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The MGM Our Gang series began its slow but steady decline with the sub-standard one-reel entry Tiny Troubles. On this...
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1939
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Sidney Toler made his second appearance as oriental sleuth Charlie Chan in the above-average Charlie Chan in Reno. It all...
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1939
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A model of precision and economy, the MGM "B" thriller Tell No Tales represented the feature-film directorial debut of former...
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1939
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In this mystery programmer, a prizefighter dies in the midst of a match, but evidence suggests that it was a dose of poison...
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1938
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In this musical comedy of errors, David Brassard, Sr. (William Collier, Sr.) has his heart stolen from him by a conniving,...
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1938
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Sonja Henie is the "lucky star" in this enjoyable 20th Century-Fox musical. Henie plays Kristina Nelson a humble department...
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1938
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Better known today as the father of actors Bob Einstein and Albert Brooks, comedian Harry Einstein achieved radio fame in the...
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1938
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Hotshot attorney Jimmy Hughes (Preston S. Foster) prides himself on never backing down from a dare. Thus, when he is goaded...
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1937
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Super Sleuth stars Jack Oakie as an egotistical movie actor who specializes in detective roles. Despite the gentle...
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1937
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Fred Astaire's first RKO musical without his longtime partner Ginger Rogers is one of his best from any period -- even though...
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1937
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1937
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Actual footage of the 1936 Berlin Olympics is rabbeted into the action of this superior Charlie Chan entry. Assigned by the...
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1937
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Scheduled to marry a man she doesn't love (and for good reason), spoiled heiress Barbara Blanchard (Claire Trevor) runs away...
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1937
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Before sitting down to watch Love and Hisses, it's important to know that columnist Walter Winchell and bandleader...
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1937
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1937
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This cinematic meringue stars Loretta Young as a young woman whose second husband (Lyle Talbot) is a hard working but dull...
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1937
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In this adventure, a young man allows criminals to talk him into cracking a safe. He is caught and sent to prison. After...
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1937
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1936
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1936
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Private Number is the old saw about the wealthy young man who marries his family's serving girl. This time Richard Winfield...
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1936
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The Three Stooges are in fine form for their fifth Columbia short. Clyde Bruckman, who worked with silent luminaries Buster...
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1935
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Silent screen leading man Lawrence Gray stars in this low-budget thriller produced by legendary penny-pincher Sam Katzman....
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1935
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1935
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Given a title like Sagebrush Troubadour, it virtually went without saying that the star of this 1935 western was singing...
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1935
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The second of eight low-budget versions of Peter B. Kyne short stories, Hot Off the Press starred Jack LaRue as Bill Jeffry,...
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1935
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It's a dark and stormy night. The butler of a large mansion is annoyed by the howling of a cat. He fires a few gunshots at...
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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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In this lively comedy, a cocky reporter follows a gangster aboard an ocean liner. While on board, the overconfident fellow...
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1935
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Two of Hollywood's duller actors, Conrad Nagel and Florence Rice, star in this overly complicated melodrama from Columbia...
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1935
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Hoping to avoid the new inheritance tax, eccentric millionaire Jasper Whyte (Charles Grapewin) gathers together his greedy...
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1935
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In this melodramatic comedy a carnival puppeteer must cope with the death of his wife who expired while birthing his...
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1935
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This thriller centers around a super detective's attempt to mastermind the perfect crime after he suspects his wife of...
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1934
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Flamboyant, egomaniacal theatrical impresario Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) transforms chorus girl Mildred Plotka...
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1934
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1934
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Assistant DA Bob Martel (Bruce Cabot) is in love with sweet Muriel (Mary Brian). This in itself is not earth-shattering,...
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1934
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This Poverty Row potboiler stars Sally O'Neil as Diana Wyman, a madcap heiress who manages to run through most of her...
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Detective Blake
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1934
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Produced by small-scale Mascot Pictures, this behind-the-scenes look at a now forgotten annual Hollywood event, the WAMPAS...
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1934
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In this rough-and-tumble action comedy, Chuck Connors (Wallace Beery) and Steve Brodie (George Raft) are friendly rivals on...
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1933
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The last--and to some aficionados, the best--of choreographer Busby Berkeley's three Warner Bros. efforts of 1933, Footlight...
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1933
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The second talkie version of the Avery Hopwood's theatrical war-horse The Golddiggers of Broadway, Gold Diggers of 1933 was...
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1933
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The missing girl in this weak whodunit from Warner Bros. is redheaded Peggy Shannon, once seen as the successor of "It Girl"...
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1933
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1932
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1932
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Running a swift 55 minutes, Trial of Vivienne Ware packs in more sheer entertainment value than its longer, more prestigious...
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1932
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1932
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1932
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In this mystery a sensual starlet suddenly dies. Though she was popular with the public, behind the scenes she had many...
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1932
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In this comedy, a luckless newspaper reporter heads for a coastal resort and finds himself mistaken for a famous dare-devil...
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1931
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In this crime drama, a crime lord adopts the little brother of a slain colleague. Later a child-care inspector intervenes,...
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1931
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Adapted from a play by Eva Kay Flint and Martha Madison, Subway Express takes place entirely on a single subway car. When a...
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Kearney
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1931
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1930
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In rare film appearance, Broadway luminary Elsie Ferguson repeats her 1929 stage role in the 1930 film version of Scarlet...
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1930
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Returning to Gunsight, AZ, from World War II, Buck Healy (Buck Jones) finds that his younger brother Tom (Thomas Carr) has...
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1930
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In this crime drama, a down-on-his-luck attorney with connections to a diamond thief is framed for the thief's murder by the...
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1930
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Rubber-legged comedian Leon Errol made his talkie starring bow in Paramount's Only Saps Work. Based on a play by Owen Davis...
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1930
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She Got What She Wanted was director James Cruze's second "special" for Tiffany Pictures in 1930. Betty Compson, previously...
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1930
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A remake of the 1925 Lon Chaney melodrama of the same name, 1930's The Unholy Three makes several concessions to the newly...
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1930
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1930
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In this sweet comedy, a meek and clumsy employee of a large firm is filled with useful ideas, but is too shy to present...
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1930
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While on an outing to go fishing, Oliver Hardy is trying to get some sleep. He's disturbed by a newspaper that blows in,...
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1930
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In this comedy, a businessman takes his client with a beautiful escort to a fancy nightclub where he plans to close an...
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1929
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When silent star Colleen Moore nervously faced a microphone for her first "sound" test, the results were so positive that...
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1929
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This entertaining film is one of Laurel and Hardy's most bizarre. Stan and Ollie work as stable-hands for a racehorse named...
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1929
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In this mystery, a producer reopens a theater where five years before, a lead actor was killed on stage during a...
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1929
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The Naughty Baby in this late-silent opus is hat-check girl Rosie McGill, played by bubbly blonde Alice White. Taking a...
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1929
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This comedy-mystery is famed director Frank Capra's first all-talking film. It tells the story of a bungling police inspector...
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Carney
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1929
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1928
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First filmed 1917, the Elmer Rice play On Trial was remade as a talkie eleven years later. The original stage version was...
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1928
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1928
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Based on the comic strip by Carl Ed, Harold Teen stars future "Dagwood Bumstead" Arthur Lake in the title role. Upon arriving...
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1928
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That creaky old Ralph Spence stage comedy-melodrama The Gorilla was given the first of its four screen treatments in 1927....
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Mulligan
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1927
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In his heyday, Universal Studios president Carl Laemmle was known derisively as "Uncle Carl" because of the dozens of...
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1927
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1927
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The whole cast looks like they're enjoying themselves in this spoof on crime melodramas. A series of thefts are being...
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Detective Shaw
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1927
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Francis X. Bushman, who had made a comeback two years previously as Messala in Ben Hur, was still trying to hang onto stardom...
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1927
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Who better to star in Doubling with Danger than one of Hollywood's premiere stunt doubles, Richard Talmadge? "The Prince of...
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1926
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1926
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Pint-sized slapstick comedian Monty Banks stars as Monty Milde, who gets mixed up with dumb detectives and brutal bootleggers...
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1926
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Hungarian director Michael Curtiz made his American film bow with the highly stylized crime melodrama The Third Degree. Set...
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1926
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The Social Highwayman is a light-fingered jewel thief who preys on high-society folk. Greenhorn newspaper reporter Jay Walker...
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1926
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Clara Bow is the sole redeeming factor of the cheaply produced melodrama Lawful Cheaters. Actually, that's not a fair...
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1925
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Earl Derr Biggers' novel was made into a play by George M. Cohan and had already come to the screen twice before (once with...
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1925
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Though Betty Compson is top-billed in Paths to Paradise, the film's real star is the ever-dapper, ever-unflappable...
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Confederate
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1925
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By 1925, the formula for Richard Talmadge features was down pat: give the actor a lot of impressive physical stunts, keep the...
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Red Mullin
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1925
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Once again, Evelyn Brent plays a girl crook who eventually reforms in this entertaining melodrama, in which nearly every...
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Kersey
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1925
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This hilariously convoluted comedy was Lewis Milestone's first film as a director. He's also responsible for the screenplay,...
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1925
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This low-budget Finis Fox drama marked the film debut of Gloria Grey. Grey is Hope Anthony, the motherless daughter of an old...
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1924
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1924
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This farce starring Douglas MacLean was based on an old musical comedy by Henry Blossom, Jr. and Alfred G. Robyn. The wealthy...
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1924
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Artemus Doolittle
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1924
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Pert Shirley Mason is the brightest spark in this Fox comedy-melodrama. Besse Belwin (Mason) works as a stenographer for...
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1923
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This 1923 Hollywood thriller The Eleventh Hour should not be confused with the like-vintage British melodrama of same name....
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1923
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The blend of comedy and melodrama in this picture did not work very well; perhaps that was because the material on which it...
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Bull Decker
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1923
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This comedy-melodrama, based on the novel by Rupert Hughes (who also directed), blends fiction and reality to tell the story...
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1923
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Contrary to popular belief, the career of Mary Miles Minter did not end the moment that director William Desmond Taylor was...
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1922
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This mediocre drama laid on the pathos in an attempt to draw in the sentimental audiences of the early '20s. Amos Tilden...
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1922
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Veteran silent star Henry Walthall shines in this drama, based on the novel by Frances Nimmo Greene. In spite of the...
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1922
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This melodrama, with all its standard trappings, was adapted the stage play by Pierce Kingsley, which in turn was based on...
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1922
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We'd like to find an Ethel M. Dell novel that wasn't made into a British silent film. Dell's The Eleventh Hour relates the...
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1922
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Universal star Herbert Rawlinson has the lead in this rather unusual romantic crime drama. James Harrington Court (Rawlinson)...
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1922
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After a year's absence from the screen, Rupert Julian put all his talents into play -- he portrays both of the main...
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1919
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Monroe Salisbury is Naval Lieutenant George Blenton, who has a fatal attraction to alcohol. His drinking causes him to lose...
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1919
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When his father gets fed up with his spendthrift ways, Jimmie (Franklyn Farnum) is forced to find work. A newspaper hires him...
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1918
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1917
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Harry Carey is a reluctant foster father in this three-reel Western. After a stage robbery, Burk (Carey) and his gang are...
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1917
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1917
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1917
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1915
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1914
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1914
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1914
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