Iconoclastic film director Samuel Fuller spent decades nurturing his dream project, a movie about his experiences in the...
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Director, Screenwriter
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2004
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Wim Wenders directed this allegorical drama about the emotional impact of violence in our culture, set against the backdrop...
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Louis Bering
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1997
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The Typewriter, the Rifle, and the Movie Camera recounts the three stages of filmmaker Samuel Fuller's remarkable career --...
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1996
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Haunting and deeply personal, this stylized film reflects director Amos Gitai's feelings and response to the 1995...
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1996
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Sex, drugs, and rock & roll are all tied into this tangled (and campy) tale of the sordid side of the music business in the...
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Screenwriter
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1994
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Hollywood wannabes struggle to succeed while striving for relationships that are doomed to fail in this gloomy comedy-drama...
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1994
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The unique film set within a Karaja village in Brazil's Mato Grosso, Jim Jarmusch listens while Sam Fuller describes the...
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Himself
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1994
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Usually cast in showy or unsympathetic supporting roles, Harvey Keitel here gets the rare chance to play a leading role as a...
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1994
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Instead of simply traveling to eastern Siberia to collect a modern art collection willed to him by a forgotten uncle, Daniel...
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Sam
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1993
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1993
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The makers of this laudatory documentary have caught filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki at work on his film La Vie de Boheme. Aki and...
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1992
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This is a well-regarded contemporary dramatic retelling of the story most familiar to audiences from Puccini's great opera La...
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1992
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In modern-day Paris, a cabalist known as the Maharal has created a golem, an artificial being constructed of earth and clay,...
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1992
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Alex (Kari Vaananen) is a Finnish cabbie working in Berlin with plenty of problems in this comedy with film noir touches....
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1990
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This documentary respectfully interviews a number of important American directors who have in one way or another "bucked the...
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1990
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Director, Screenwriter
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1990
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Sam Fuller's last film as a director, made during his self-imposed European exile, stars Keith Carradine as once glamorous...
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter
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1989
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Distressed at their father's imminent demise, his three sons decide to try and make his last wish come true while he is yet...
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Father
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1989
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1988
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A divorced dad and son attempt to build on their newly resurrected relationship by heading back to pop's hometown in up-state...
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Van Meer
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1987
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Screenwriter
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1986
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1986
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Produced on behalf of the HBO cable service, The Blood of Others is a rare venture into English-language filmmaking by...
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1984
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Based on the 1963 movie Shock Corridor by Samuel Fuller (1911-1997), Lanaa is also about a reporter who pretends to be insane...
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Book Author
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1984
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Sam Fuller (1911-1997) directed this rather mediocre crime story about a Bonnie-and-Clyde couple -- how they got together and...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1983
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Wim Wenders' The State of Things (Der Stand der Dinge) was financed by one of the director's chief mentors,...
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1982
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1982
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A little-seen film, suppressed by Paramount studio executives and never released theatrically in the U.S., this drama is a...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1982
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Director Wim Wenders made his American film bow with the ultra-stylish Hammett. Based on the speculative novel by Joe Gores,...
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1982
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Samuel Fuller's valedictory war picture, The Big Red One follows the First Infantry Division from Africa to Europe during the...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1980
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The American novelist , screenwriter and film director Samuel Fuller was very highly regarded in European circles. Among...
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1979
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It's December of 1941, and the people of California are in varying states of unease, ranging from a sincere desire to defend...
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1979
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Wim Wenders' mines Dennis Hopper's real-life experience as a painter and collector in this existential take on the American...
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1977
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1977
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The setting is Atoka County, Alabama -- the time is somewhere after the peak of the civil rights movement, after cities such...
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Screenwriter
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1974
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Based on filmmaker Samuel Fuller's short-story "Riata," this extremely bloody, excessively violent and long-running western...
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Short Story Author
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1973
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This crime drama is the fourth in Roger Corman's series of sexy "nurseploitation" films. Three curvaceous health care workers...
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1973
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This German-produced film was made by American B-movie director Sam Fuller especially for his European fans who have far more...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1972
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With a barrage of cinematic distancing devices at hand (flashbacks and flash-forwards, super-imposed titles, missing frames,...
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Director
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1971
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In this actioner, a gun runner gets a job as a marine biologist while stranded in the Middle East. He quickly finds out that...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1968
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After a purse is stolen on a South African bus, this tale is set in motion--involving secret information and communist...
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Screenwriter
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1967
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Meanest Men in the West is basically a pair of episodes of The Virginian, chopped up by Universal Pictures' editing...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1966
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Pierrot le fou (1965) is Jean-Luc Godard's sixth film staring Anna Karina, his first wife. It is the story of Ferdinand...
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1965
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Kelly (Constance Towers), a prostitute who wants to transform her life, beats up her pimp, takes the 75 dollars he owes her,...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1964
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Shock Corridor represents filmmaker Samuel Fuller at his most excessive, but few would have it otherwise. Peter Breck plays a...
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Cinematographer, Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1963
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Jeff Chandler stars as American brigadier-general Merrill, commanding a regiment in Burma during World War II. Surrounded on...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1962
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Cliff Robertson plays Tolly Devlin, an embittered ex-convict who has spent a lifetime tracking down the men who murdered his...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1961
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1959
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Director Samuel Fuller skillfully intercuts footage of the German death camps with scenes from this thought-provoking drama...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1959
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Several film historians, notably the late William K. Everson, have noted the striking resemblances between Run of the Arrow...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1957
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Writer-director Samuel Fuller applies his kino-fist to this raw-boned war drama -- one of the first American films to deal...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1957
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Cult hero Samuel Fuller wrote and directed this visually inventive western, which didn't fare well with American audiences...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1957
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Samuel Fuller directed and cowrote this typically hard-boiled drama set in Japan following World War II. Eddie Kenner...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1955
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Hell and High Water brings an intriguing Cold War slant to a standard submarine melodrama. Richard Widmark plays a...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1954
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The Command was Warner Bros.' first Technicolor release. Guy Madison, then extremely popular with western fans by virtue of...
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Screenwriter
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1954
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Samuel Fuller scarcely used Dwight Taylor's source material, a languid courtroom romance, in crafting this pugnacious...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1953
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In 1880s New York City, newspapers were engaged in a free-for-all competition, with the respectable practitioners such as...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1952
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Book Author
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1952
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Book Author
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1952
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To filmmaker and war veteran Samuel Fuller, war is about survival. You either kill or be killed. His combat films are not...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1951
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Writer and director Samuel Fuller enjoyed his first box-office and critical success with this hard-boiled but human tale of...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1951
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Samuel Fuller wrote and directed this lively drama based on the real-life adventures of James Addison Reavis, one of the most...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1950
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Beauty contest winner Patricia Knight's one bid for screen stardom was Columbia's Shockproof. Knight plays Jenny Wright, a...
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Screenwriter
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1949
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This dark, gloomy Western chronicles the shame and self-destruction of Bob Ford, the real-life James Gang member that...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1949
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John Cleveland Carter (Minor Watson) is the publisher of a once-great newspaper, who discovers too late that his editor,...
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Screenwriter
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1943
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Don Ameche, an American news bureau chief stationed in London, is frustrated by the British government's censorship of his...
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Screenwriter
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1941
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Screenwriter
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1940
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In this crime drama, an undercover cop infiltrates a crime syndicate being run by an incarcerated mob boss who conducts his...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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By 1937, everyone was tired of films about silent stars who couldn't make the transition to talkies (and would be until...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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The first musical comedy from the Grand National assembly line, Hats Off stars John Payne and Mae Clarke as rival press...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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