In the South Seas, half-caste Ilanu (Raquel Torres) refuses to marry Kahea (Donald Reed), as she loves Jimmy Bradford...
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1931
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Advertised as an "all star" film, Swing High is hardly that: The biggest name in the picture, both in terms of popularity and...
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1930
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In this corny disaster drama, patrons of an underground speakeasy in New Orleans attend a victory party and end up terrified...
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1930
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In this western adventure, set in California just after the Spanish-American War, a Mexican rancher becomes a populist...
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1930
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Filmed in 1929 and released early in 1930, Dynamite was Cecil B. DeMille's first all-talking feature. As one observer has...
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1930
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In this drama, an older railroad supervisor is engaged to a lovely young woman. Unfortunately, she falls in love with the...
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1930
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A Devil with Women is the best way to describe soldier-of-fortune Jerry Maxton (Victor McLaglen). At large in South America,...
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1930
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This early talkie is the third version of the popular Booth Tarkington play. It is set in the mid 19th-century and centers...
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Col. Randall
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1930
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This part-talkie is one of those strange hybrids so prevalent during the changeover to sound: part silent western, part...
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1930
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George M. Cohan's 1904 musical came to the screen a second time in 1930 courtesy of Warner Bros., who cast light leading man...
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Ed Baker
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1930
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1930
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The Doctor's Secret was adapted by director William C. DeMille from James M. Barrie's play Half an Hour. After marrying...
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Dr. Brodie
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1929
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1929
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Marion Davies made her talkie debut in this early musical romance set during World War I. Marianne (Davies) is a beautiful...
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1929
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Don Fernando
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1929
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Released in both silent and part-talkie versions, The Little Wildcat starred James Murray, late of The Crowd, as barnstorming...
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Joel Ketchum
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1928
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Detective
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1928
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Presently unavailable for public reappraisal, the biting and cynical melodrama Power of the Press would seem to be a...
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City Editor
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1928
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Known as The Caviar of Poverty Row, brunette Dorothy Revier was Columbia Pictures' first female star. In Beware of Blondes, a...
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Costigan
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1928
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His Lower-East-side accent unheard, George Jessel is still able to convincingly portray the Hebraic title character in George...
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Mr. Gorman
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1928
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Marriage by Contract was produced and directed by John M. Stahl for his own Tiffany-Stahl Studio. Although only a...
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Winters
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1928
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A wealthy man hits the half-century mark and promptly suffers a mid-life crisis in this silent romantic comedy. Like...
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Mr. Calhoun
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1928
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Filmed through mounds of gauze, silent movie queen Mae Murray stars in MGM's Altars of Desire. Murray plays a willful...
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John Sutherland
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1927
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1927
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Based on a real-life incident, Maurine Watkins' semi-satirical novel and play Chicago was first brought to the screen in...
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1927
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Previously filmed in 1914, the popular turn-of-the-century stage farce Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary was remade in 1927. This...
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1927
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1927
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1927
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1927
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During WWI, two American doughboys, William Boyd and Jimmie Adams, volunteer to pose as deserters for a top-secret espionage...
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German General
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1926
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Gaunt, aristocratic-looking character-actor H.B. Warner was slightly miscast as author Frank Hamilton Spearman's popular...
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1926
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One of the few surviving films of Leatrice Joy, the wife of screen heartthrob John Gilbert, The Clinging Vine is a typically...
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T. M. Bancroft
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1926
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If Eve's Leaves has the "look" of a Cecil B. DeMille production, it's because DeMille himself functioned as producer. Salty...
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1926
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This lively outing chronicles the adventures of a daring young buck who defies his father, who grounded the lad for getting...
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1926
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One feels that if Cecil B. DeMille had been assigned to direct the one-character play Krapp's Last Tape, he'd have added...
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Prince Nikita
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1926
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1926
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Judy Nichols (Leatrice Joy), a poor girl from Chicago, has decided she cannot marry without money. Her sweetheart, Ronald...
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Sanford Gillespie
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1925
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Jesse J. Goldburg's small-scale Independent Pictures scooped the competition when they managed to hire such proven box-office...
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Grimshaw
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1925
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This programmer came out of Columbia, which, during the 1920s, was just another Poverty Row studio. Cyrus Browning (Robert...
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1925
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Dapper, diminutive screen comedian Monty Banks stars in Keep Smiling. The inventor of an automatically inflatable life...
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James P. Ryan
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1925
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Norman Carter
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1925
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Although Jackie Coogan is dressed up (or rather, down) for this comedy in much the same way he was for Charles Chaplin's The...
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Mr. Bernard
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1925
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Will Prescott (Richard Dix) is a bank cashier whose assistant, Ned Seabury (Neil Hamilton), has made a killing in the stock...
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Marco Culman
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1925
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Financed to a great extent by local businessmen and historical societies, this Colorado-lensed silent western once again...
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General Kinnard
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1925
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1925
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A young, football-playing Indian (Rod La Rocque) is sent to law school by the tribe in order to learn the ways of the white...
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1925
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While this Cecil B. DeMille production has many of the elements common to his pictures -- lavish, expensive sets and...
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1924
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This melodrama was the first collaborative effort between MGM and the husband-wife/director-actress team Robert Z. Leonard...
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1924
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After her brilliant career in Europe, Pola Negri, came to America to make films for Paramount. Her first few pictures for the...
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Henri Duval
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1924
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1924
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Elderly Isadore Solomon (Dore Davidson) arrives in the small New England town of Valley Falls, but is run out of the hotel...
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1924
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Ramon Novarro and Barbara LaMarr, the featured players who made such an impression in The Prisoner of Zenda, reunite in this...
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The Commandante
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1924
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Frederick Hall
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1924
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Leatrice Joy outshines the trite material and the rest of the cast in this Paramount release. Although it was adapted from...
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Ralph Coombes
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1923
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Has the World Gone Mad? answers its own question by detailing the sinful excesses of the "Jazz Age." Future gossip columnist...
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Mr. Adams
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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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Cecil B. DeMille's first screen version of The Ten Commandments is only peripherally a Biblical story. The film's first 45...
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1923
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Light comedian Johnny Hines specialized in entertaining, action-packed films, and this is one of the snappiest of the bunch....
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Judge Templeton
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1923
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Leading lady Lois Wilson considered this fine western her favorite of six films she starred in opposite virile leading man...
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Gaston Isbel
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1923
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This was the second silent version of the oft-filmed Rex Beach novel (made three more times in the sound era). Roy Glennister...
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Joe Dextry
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1923
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Actor James Kirkwood, who had taken a break from film for a stint on Broadway in The Fool, stands out in this drama. His...
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Theodore Tennent
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1923
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Charles Dodge
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1923
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This epic-scale silent adaptation of the popular novel by Anthony Hope concerns Rudolph (Lewis S. Stone), a member of the...
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Col. Sapt
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1922
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Actor/ writer/ director Erich Von Stroheim stars as a fraudulent count, living high on the hog in Monte Carlo. He supports...
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1922
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This is Johnny Hines' second starring feature -- the first was called Burn 'Em Up Barnes, so there seems to be a little theme...
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Anthony De Lanni
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1922
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A couple of old-timers -- character actor Tully Marshall and director Gilbert M. "Bronco Billy" Anderson --bring out the best...
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1922
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Clara Kimball Young plays twin sisters, one a cabaret entertainer, the other a nun, in this melodrama produced and directed...
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Cinematographer
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1922
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1919
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Idealistic young lawyer Robert Edeson goes to work for district attorney Frank Keenan, little realizing that his new boss is...
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1917
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Robert Edeson repeated his stage role of Haulick Smagg in this 5-reel Edison adaptation of Gellett Burgess' play...
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Haulick Smagg
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1915
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Marguerite Gale plays Molly, an Irish colleen who lands a job as a newspaper reporter. Molly's editor assigns her the task of...
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1915
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According to this film, Man's Prerogative would seem to be to cheat upon his sweetheart whenever and wherever he pleases....
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1915
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1915
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Former D. W. Griffith assistant William "Christy" Cabanne, in collaboration with Frank E. Woods, called the shots in The...
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1915
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This is the first film in which budding filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille received full credit as a director. Set in the wild...
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1914
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Oscar Apfel, the man who collaborated with Cecil B. DeMille on the direction of the pioneering feature film The Squaw Man,...
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1914
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Produced at the famous Lasky barn near Hollywood and Vine, Where the Trail Divides was a sober depiction of the relationship...
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1914
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