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Synopsis: 1970s favorite Chris Robinson and the venerable Sidney Blackmer star in Revenge is My Destiny. Robinson plays a Vietnam vet who returns home to his wife. His home is there, but his wife isn't. When the authorities prove to be no help, Robinson cuts a violent swath across the countryside in search Read More
Synopsis: Devious socialite Gene Barry stands to come into one million dollars. The catch is (and don't ask us why) that he must convince the authorities that he's dead. He arranges to switch identities with Lloyd Bridges, who is terminally ill. Diane Baker plays Barry's wife, who must needs be willing to Read More
Synopsis: This 90-minute episode of the TV series Name of the Game features Robert Stack as Crime magazine senior editor Dan Farrell. This time, Farrell is investigating charges that the officials of a prison on the Mexican border are shipping out forced labor to local farms. It has been further Read More
Actors: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans
Synopsis: In Roman Polanski's first American film, adapted from Ira Levin's horror bestseller, a young wife comes to believe that her offspring is not of this world. Waifish Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow) and her struggling actor husband, Guy (John Cassavetes), move into the Bramford, an old New York City Read More
Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Sidney Blackmer
Synopsis: Ben Cartwright is determined to block the gubernatorial bid of John Faraday (Simon Scott), the corrupt stooge of crooked tycoon Sam Endicott (Sidney Blackmer). When Ben is shot by one of Endicott's henchmen, he decides to "play dead" until the convention, then expose both Endicott and Faraday as Read More
Actors: George Maharis, Laura Devon, Katy Jurado, Earl Holliman, Arthur O'Connell
Synopsis: In this courtroom drama, a Mexican American judge must preside over the case of the town ne'er-do-well, who is accused of killing his wife. The film is set during the 1920s in the Southwest. The murderer is convicted and sentenced to hang, but on execution day, he has a fight and kills the Read More
Actors: Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi, Terry-Thomas, Eddie Mayehoff, Claire Trevor
Synopsis: George Axelrod's script for How to Murder Your Wife isn't politically correct in the least, but you're likely to get a charge out of it -- provided you are of the male persuasion, that is. Jack Lemmon stars as Stanley Ford, a successful cartoonist and a confirmed bachelor who shares a lavish Read More
Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Yvette Mimieux, Arthur Kennedy, Oscar Homolka, Donald Davis, Joan Tetzel
Synopsis: In this romantic drama based on a novel by Betty Smith, Carl Brown (Richard Chamberlain) is a student in law school who wants to marry his sweetheart, Annie McGairy (Yvette Mimieux). However, Carl and Annie's parents knew each other when they grew up in Ireland before emigrating to America, and Read More
Synopsis: The second volume in a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series focuses on an experimental drug which allows a con artist to make himself the doppelganger of the secretly-murdered U.S. President. After commandeering the Oval Office, the impostor begins Read More
Synopsis: Small-town garage mechanic Aaron Menefee (Andrew Prine) becomes a devoted disciple of the Reverend Otis Jones (Sidney Blackmer) after the traveling faith healer seemingly cures Menefee's ulcer. Even so, Jones refuses Menefee permission to marry his daughter Emily (Maggie Pierce), arguing that Read More
Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Sidney Blackmer
Synopsis: Sidney Blackmer guest-stars as baloon ascensionist Major Cayley, an old Army friend of Ben Cartwright. With Ben's blessing, Cayley uses the Ponderosa as the site of his latest experimental flight. What Ben doesn't know is that the Major hopes to use all the excitement attending the flight as a Read More
Synopsis: In the fifth episode of Walt Disney's 17-part miniseries Tales of Texas John Slaughter, Slaughter (Tom Tryon) has retired from the Texas Rangers and has set up his own cattle ranch together with his new bride Adeline (Norma Moore). Alas, Slaughter's career as a cattleman may be over before it Read More
Synopsis: In the sixth episode of Walt Disney's 17-part miniseries Tales of Texas John Slaughter, Slaughter (Tom Tryon) combines his cattle herd with that of fellow rancher Sam Underwood (Sidney Blackmer), intending to drive both herds to Arizona and sell them at the highest price possible. Unfortunately Read More
Synopsis: Created and written by Sam Peckinpah, the premiere episode of The Rifleman stars Chuck Connors and Johnny Crawford as Lucas and Mark McCain, father and 10-year-old son in search of settling down near North Fork, New Mexico. But when Lucas, a noted crack shot with a rifle, enters the local turkey Read More
Actors: Debbie Reynolds, Walter Brennan, Leslie Nielsen, Mala Powers, Fay Wray, Sidney Blackmer
Synopsis: Debbie Reynolds stars as Tammy in this romantic comedy of a country girl living in the South who cares for pilot Peter Brent (Leslie Neilsen) after his plane crashes near her home. At the beckoning of mutual admiration, Peter soon invites her to his plantation where she charms the fancy-shmancy Read More
Actors: Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer, Barbara Nichols, Philip Bourneuf, Shepperd Strudwick
Synopsis: Crusading publisher Austin Spenser (Sidney Blackmer) wants to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence. Spencer talks his prospective son-in-law Tom Garrett (Dana Andrews) into participating in a hoax, the better to expose the alleged ineptitude of conviction-happy DA (Philip Bourneuf Read More
Actors: David Brian, Vera Ralston, Sidney Blackmer, Virginia Grey, Warren Stevens
Synopsis: Nightclub singer Ilona Vance (Vera Ralston) is Accused of Murder in this Republic programmer. And from the looks of things, Ilona is guilty; she was, after all, the last person to see crooked lawyer Hobart (Sidney Blackmer) alive. But Lt. Roy Hargis (David Brian) is convinced that Ilona is Read More
Synopsis: Hollywood's archetypal "good woman" Greer Garson pulls off an astonishing about-face as the wicked, scheming Regina Giddens in this 90-minute Hallmark Hall of Fame adaptation of Lillian Hellman's 1939 stage drama The Little Foxes. Set in the post-Civil War South, the plot involves the underhanded Read More
Actors: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Celeste Holm, John Lund
Synopsis: High Society is a glossy Technicolor-and-VistaVision musical remake of Philip Barry's The Philadelphia Story (1940), decked out with million-watt star power and a Cole Porter score. Set amongst the rich and famous in Newport, RI, the story revolves around the wedding plans of socialite Tracy Lord (Grace Kelly Read More
Synopsis: Hoping to square his debts before his retirement, Frank Patridge (Sidney Blackmer) talks his wife Mildred (Virginia Gregg) into a scheme to defraud the insurance company. Mildred will drop out of sight for seven years, at the end of which she will be declared legally dead so that Frank can collect Read More
Actors: Richard Egan, Dana Wynter, Cameron Mitchell, Sidney Blackmer, Marjorie Rambeau
Synopsis: Miscegenation, that old reliable bugaboo of many a Southern-based novel, is at the center of Hamilton Basso's The View from Pompey's Head. The film version stars Richard Egan as a New York lawyer who returns to his Southern home town to investigate an embezzlement charge. The victim is an ageing Read More
Actors: Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Don Taylor, Paul Kelly, Ilka Chase, Sidney Blackmer
Synopsis: Tony Curtis stars as Johnny Dark, a moody automobile designer. Rejected by a major auto firm because of his "radical" notions, Johnny sets out to prove the efficiency of his cars on the racetrack. He is aided and abetted by pretty Piper Laurie and less pretty Paul Kelly, while motor mogul Sidney Blackmer Read More
Actors: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Laraine Day, Robert Stack, Jan Sterling
Synopsis: For The High and the Mighty, director William Wellman made a point of using Cinemascope to heighten the dramatic content of a confined screen space -- in this instance, the cockpit of a plane in flight. Copilot Dan Roman (John Wayne) seems a lot more in control of things than Captain John Sullivan Read More
Actors: Joel McCrea, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Blackmer, Richard Erdman, Florence Bates
Synopsis: Joel McCrea plays 19th-century miner Rick Nelson in The San Francisco Story. The year is 1856, and Frisco is a wide-open town. To stem the activities of crooks and con artists, newspaper editor Jim Martin (Onslow Stevens) organizes a group of peace-keeping vigilantes. Nelson, an old friend of Read More
Actors: Van Johnson, Patricia Neal, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer, Philip Ober
Synopsis: Washington Story stars Van Johnson as mildly liberal congressman Joseph T. Gresham. For reasons that he can't fathom, Gresham has been targeted for abuse by powerful columnist Gilbert Nunnaly (Philip Ober). Working in cahoots with Nunnaly is journalist Alice Kingsley (Patricia Neal), who pretends Read More
Actors: John Derek, Donna Reed, Sidney Blackmer, Alexander Knox, Elliott Lewis
Synopsis: John Derek plays a Polish-American immigrant who excels in high school sports. Though no great shakes academically, Derek wins a scholarship at an exclusive Southern university. Sidney Blackmer is a wealthy alumnus who sees to it that Derek is allowed to coast in his classes so that he can play Read More
Actors: Cary Grant, Jeanne Crain, Finlay Currie, Hume Cronyn, Walter Slezak
Synopsis: People Will Talk was less a movie than a conduit for the genteel liberalism of screenwriter/director Joseph M. Mankiewicz. Cary Grant plays Dr. Praetorius, an unorthodox medical professor at a sedate midwestern college who seems more interested in the human soul than in the cold facts of the human Read More
Synopsis: Those who fail to learn from history, the saying goes, are destined to repeat it. This is the lesson propounded by the 60-minute documentary Farewell to Yesterday. Producer Edmund Reek and screenwriter Joseph Kenas, both members of the Fox Movietone Newsreel team, demonstrate through a series of Read More
Actors: Lilli Palmer, Sam Wanamaker, Akim Tamiroff, Hugo Haas
Synopsis: Adapted by Allen Boretz from Lucille S. Plumbs and Sara B. Smith's stage play Ever the Beginning, My Girl Tisa is set in New York at the turn of the century. Tisa Kepes (Lilli Palmer) is a newly arrived immigrant girl who hopes to bring her father to America. She is fleeced by travel-agent Hugo Haas Read More
Actors: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Benny Goodman, Hugh Herbert, Steve Cochran
Synopsis: A Song is Born is a musical remake of the 1941 comedy Ball of Fire, with the same producer (Sam Goldwyn) and director (Howard Hawks) at the helm. It will be recalled that the original film, co-scripted by Billy Wilder, was an amusing spin on "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," wherein seven Read More
Actors: Griff Barnett, Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck, Charles Bickford, Joseph Cotten, Sidney Blackmer, Lionel Barrymore, Harry Carey, Lillian Gish
Synopsis: In David O. Selznick's Duel in the Sun, Jennifer Jones stars as Pearl Chavez, whom everyone has tagged as a "bad girl" foredoomed to an unhappy end. She is taken into the home of wealthy, greedy rancher McCanles (Lionel Barrymore) and his kindly wife Laura Belle (Lillian Gish), who'd once been the Read More
Actors: George Murphy, Ginny Simms, Charles Winninger, Gloria de Haven, Lena Horne, Nancy Walker
Synopsis: The plot of the overinflated MGM musical Broadway Rhythm can be summed up briefly: Musical comedy producer Jonnie Demming (George Murphy) dismisses his vaudevillian dad Sam Demming (Charles Winninger) as old-fashioned. Jonnie signs Hollywood star Helen Hoyt (Ginny Simms) to a Broadway show, but Read More
Actors: Vera Ralston, Richard Arlen, Mary Nash, Sidney Blackmer
Synopsis: Lady and the Monster was the first film version of the classic Curt Siodmak sci-fi/horror tale Donovan's Brain. The plot involves the brain of a famous but unscrupulous financier, recently deceased. The brain is kept alive artificially by overenthusiastic scientist Erich Von Stroheim, with the Read More
Actors: Joel McCrea, Maureen O'Hara, Linda Darnell, Thomas Mitchell, Anthony Quinn
Synopsis: No slouch himself at rearranging the facts to make a good story, Colonel William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody would probably have enjoyed this Technicolor version of his life and times. Well played by Joel McCrea, Cody is first seen as an army Indian scout, pursuing peaceful coexistence despite the Read More
Actors: Alexander Knox, Charles Coburn, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell, Ruth Nelson, Cedric Hardwicke
Synopsis: Producer Darryl F. Zanuck had high hopes that Wilson would immortalize him in the manner that Gone With the Wind did for David O. Selznick. The notion of bringing the life story of Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States, to the big screen was a labor of love for Zanuck, and Read More
Actors: Dean Jagger, John Carradine, Mary Brian, Bill Henry, Sidney Blackmer
Synopsis: With a title like I Escaped from the Gestapo, it's a wonder that there's any suspense at all in this Monogram programmer. Dean Jagger stars as Lane, an imprisoned counterfeiter who is sprung from jail by a group of sinister-looking gentlemen. It soon develops that Lane is expected to apply his Read More
Actors: Edmund Lowe, Marguerite Chapman, John Litel, William Wright, Bruce Bennett
Synopsis: Though somewhat past his prime, Edmund Lowe carries the dramatic weight of Murder in Times Square with breezy assuredness. Lowe plays Barrymoresque stage actor Cory Williams, who vaingloriously tries to solve a bizarre series of murders. Though the killings take place in the heart of New York, the Read More
Actors: John Wayne, Martha Scott, Albert Dekker, George "Gabby" Hayes, Marjorie Rambeau
Synopsis: In Old Oklahoma is better known today by its reissue title, War of the Wildcats. John Wayne heads the cast as oil man Dan Somers, who carries on a bitter feud with his crooked rival Hunk Gardner (Albert Dekker). Furthering the animosity between the two men is schoolteacher-turned-novelist Read More
Actors: Bruce Bennett, Kay Harris, Edward Norris, Sidney Blackmer, Don Beddoe
Synopsis: Released in late August of 1942, Sabotage Squad was the last of Columbia's B-budget wartime melodramas of the 1941-42 season. Edward Norris stars as Eddie Miller, a brash Broadway bookie who stumbles upon a nest of Nazi saboteurs. Technically not the hero-Bruce Bennett and Kay Harris are Read More
Actors: Kay Francis, Walter Huston, Gloria Warren, Frankie Thomas
Synopsis: A real four-hanky picture, Always in My Heart was loosely adapted from the stage play by Dorothy Bennett and Irving White. Walter Huston is a tower of strength as MacKenzie Scott, a brilliant musician falsely convicted of murder and sentenced to Life. While Scott languishes in prison, his Read More
Synopsis: The lachrymose PRC drama Prison Girls was based on the Octavious Roy Cohen short story Gallant Lady, which was also the film's alternate title. In her first starring role in several years, Rose Hobart plays Rosemary Walsh, a woman doctor sentenced to a long jail term for a mercy killing. Escaping Read More
Actors: Sidney Blackmer, Byron Foulger, Rick Vallin, Herbert Rawlinson
Synopsis: Magazine writer and editor Fulton Ousler's stern police commissioner Thatcher Colt came to the screen in April of 1942 courtesy of former investment broker Lester Cutler, veteran actor Sidney Blackmer, and cinematic hack William Beaudine (the latter living up to his nickname "One Shot" by Read More
Actors: Rose Hobart, Sidney Blackmer, Claire Rochelle, Lynn Starr, Jane Novak
Synopsis: In this drama, a woman performs a mercy killing and ends up in jail. To clear her name, she escapes and ends up hiding out with a kindly country doctor who helps her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Conrad Veidt, Ann Ayars
Synopsis: This Irving Asher production was that rarity, a genuine B-movie from posh MGM. Set in a pre-Pearl Harbor United States, Nazi Agent starred real-life Hitler refugee Conrad Veidt as identical twins, one a timid stamp collector and rare book store owner, the other the Nazi consul. The evil Veidt is Read More
Actors: Conrad Veidt, Ann Ayars, Frank Reicher, Dorothy Tree, Ivan Simpson
Actors: George Sanders, Gail Patrick, Richard Denning, Lynne Roberts, Sidney Blackmer
Synopsis: A public library at night is the setting for this fast-moving crime caper. George Sanders is a gentleman crook specializing in selling forgeries of rare books. In the company of phony policemen, Sanders enters the library unmolested and pilfers a priceless Shakespeare folio in order to expedite Read More
Actors: Marjorie Weaver, John Hubbard, Cobina Wright, Jr., Mona Barrie, Douglas Dumbrille
Synopsis: Marjorie Weaver, frequently cast as the "Girl Friday" in 20th Century-Fox's Michael Shayne pictures, is permitted to solve a mystery on her own in Murder Among Friends. Weaver plays Mary Lou, an insurance agent who smells a rat when several elderly men, all beneficiaries to a "Tontine" insurance Read More
Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Fay McKenzie, Harold Huber, Sidney Blackmer
Synopsis: Like 1940's Melody Ranch, the 1941 Gene Autry vehicle Down Mexico Way was designed as a "special", to be promoted separately from Autry's regular B-western series as an A-picture attraction. The story gets under way when a pair of con artists, Gibson (Sidney Blackmer) and Allen (Joe Sawyer) Read More
Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Gail Patrick, Jack Carson, Florence Bates
Synopsis: William Powell and Myrna Loy re-team for this (literally) crazy screwball comedy about a happily married couple who, thanks to a visit from mother, find their marriage on the rocks and the husband committed to a mental institution. Poised to celebrate their fourth wedding anniversary, Steven (William Powell Read More
Actors: Jack Holt, Jonathan Hale, Henry Kolker, Marjorie Reynolds, Donald Douglas
Synopsis: In this mystery, an insurance investigator must find the arsonists behind the burning of a warehouse. The detective does get some good photographs as evidence, but they are stolen from his apartment. He really isn't a great sleuth and winds up accusing everyone but the real culprit of the crime. Read More
Actors: Joan Carroll, Edmond O'Brien, Ruth Warrick, Robert Smith, Eve Arden
Synopsis: The studio concocted the film as a showcase for its 9-year-old discovery Joan Carroll, here cast as precocious Bridget Potter. Little Bridget has been willingly "kidnapped" by secretary Linda Norton (Ruth Warrick), who hopes that the girl's disappearance will precipitate a reunion between Read More
Actors: Rosalind Russell, Don Ameche, Kay Francis, Van Heflin, Donald Meek
Synopsis: An expert cast of farceurs goes through its customary paces in MGM's The Feminine Touch. Don Ameche plays college professor-turned-author John Hathaway, who hits upon a potential best-seller with his book on marital jealousy. He heads to New York with his lovely wife Julie (Rosalind Russell) Read More
Actors: Binnie Barnes, Gilbert Roland, Mary Lee, Billy Gilbert, Jane Frazee
Synopsis: Widowed mother Charlotte Lord (Katherine Alexander) would like to marry wealthy Guy Barton (Sidney Blackmer), but Bartons' avaricious ex-wife Sybil (Binnie Barnes) insists upon contesting their recent Mexican divorce. Charlotte's daughters Jane (Jane Frazee), Leni (Leni Lynn), and Marilyn (Marilyn Hare Read More
Actors: Ralph Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay, Charles Grapewin, Spring Byington, H.B. Warner
Synopsis: Ralph Bellamy makes the third of four appearances as "master detective" Ellery Queen in Columbia's Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime. The principal villain is crooked stockbroker John Mathews (Douglass Dumbrille), whose Wall Street manipulations render Ray Jarden (H. B. Warner) penniless. Read More
Actors: Bob Crosby, Ruth Terry, Gertrude Niesen, Eddie Foy, Jr., Marie Wilson
Synopsis: Hoping to cash in on the success of Universal's Buck Privates, Republic Pictures hastily commissioned an imitation, Rookies on Parade. Instead of Abbott and Costello, Republic settled for bandleader Bob Crosby and comedian Eddie Foy Jr., a not-so-unfair exchange at that. The story details the Read More
Actors: Rochelle Hudson, Bruce Bennett, Roger Pryor, Richard Fiske, Sidney Blackmer
Synopsis: Honest cop Bob Conlon (Bruce Bennett) is in love with Helen Regan (Rochelle Hudson),who begs off from a lasting committment because of the injuries incurred by her policeman father (Oscar O'Shea). Helen inaugurates a "safer" romance with Johnny Davis (Roger Pryor), who unbeknownst to her is the Read More
Actors: Martha Scott, William Gargan, Edmund Gwenn, Sterling Holloway, Sidney Blackmer
Synopsis: Something of a distaff Mr. Chips, schoolteacher Ella Bishop (Martha Scott) devotes her life to her work, ageing 50 years (from 19 to 69) in the course of the film. At a testimonial dinner on the occasion of her retirement, Miss Bishop's former students wonder why their beloved teacher never Read More
Actors: Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Frank Fay, Jessie Ralph
Synopsis: Ironically, the marriage between Dick Powell and Joan Blondell was beginning to fall apart at the time they co-starred in Paramount's I Want a Divorce. The film manages to sustain two plotlines, with newlyweds Alan and Geraldine MacNally (Powell and Blondell) beginning to have second thoughts Read More
Actors: Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball, Ralph Bellamy, Virginia Field
Synopsis: Based on a story by Vicki Baum (of Grand Hotel) fame, Dance, Girl Dance finds innocent young Judy (Maureen O'Hara) journeying to the Big Apple in hopes of gaining fame as a classical dancer. Instead she ends up as the "stooge" for raucous strip-tease artist Bubbles (Lucille Ball), who attempts to Read More
Actors: Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas, Raymond Walburn, Lee Bowman, Bonita Granville
Synopsis: This box-office smash comedy of manners featured the popular Myrna Loy as Margot Sherwood Merrick, the stodgy editor of a glamorous women's fashion magazine. To protect herself from suitors and jealous wives of businessmen, she wears a gold band on the third finger of her left hand and pretends Read More
Actors: Walter Brennan, Fay Bainter, Brenda Joyce, John Payne, Charlie Ruggles
Synopsis: The success of 1938's Kentucky prompted 20th Century-Fox to come up with the similar (though not entirely identical) horse-racing opus Maryland. After her husband (Russell Hicks) is killed during a fox hunt, Maryland matriarch Charlotte Danfield (Fay Bainter) forbids her son Lee (John Payne) from Read More
Actors: Frank Albertson, Constance Moore, Jerome Cowan, Robert Armstrong, Sidney Blackmer
Synopsis: Reporter Albertson works to solve a murder case in order to clear his name and get a great story for his paper. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Robert Kent, Anne Nagel, Sidney Blackmer, Victor Kilian, Norman Willis
Synopsis: Monogram's seemingly endless series of inexpensive crime mellers continued with Convict's Code. Robert Kent plays a star football player who is framed by gamblers on a robbery charge and sentenced to prison. Serving three years behind bars, Kent is paroled in the custody of the same gambling boss (Sidney Blackmer Read More
Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Russell Hayden, Steffi Duna, Sidney Toler, Sidney Blackmer
Synopsis: If not the best of the Hopalong Cassidy films, Law of the Pampas is certainly one of the better-known entries. This time around, Hoppy (William Boyd) and his pal Lucky (Russell Hayden) head to South America to look after a herd of cattle sold by Cassidy's boss to an Argentine rancher. Villain Read More
Actors: Ruth Hussey, Tom Neal, Paul Kelly, William Gargan, Paul Cavanagh
Synopsis: In this crime drama, a thieving employee sticks her stolen goods into the locker of a co-worker and causes all sorts of trouble. The stolen items are found in the locker of a store clerk who ends up imprisoned. The store owner's son knows that she is innocent, but he says nothing. The enraged Read More
Actors: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Reginald Owen, Ralph Morgan, Etienne Girardot
Synopsis: Fast and Loose was the second of MGM's brief "B" series based on Harry Kurnitz' husband-wife team of bookdealing sleuths, Joel and Garda Sloane. In Fast Company, the first of the series, Melvyn Douglas and Florence Rice played the Sloanes; in this second entry, the characters are portrayed by Robert Montgomery Read More
Actors: Helen Twelvetrees, Buck Jones, Donald O'Connor, John Hartley, Robert Armstrong
Synopsis: In this sentimental drama, a washed-up boxer falls for a nightclub owner whose business has nearly been ruined by Prohibition. Both of them are fairly depressed by their lives and end up living together in the home of the fighter's recently murdered manager. The deceased's young son comes home Read More
Actors: Tommy Ryan, Robert Livingston, June Storey, Ralph Morgan, Harry Davenport
Synopsis: In this drama, an young, orphaned heir is dismayed to discover that his inheritance will no longer cover the tuition and expenses for military school and ends up sent to a state orphanage. He and his devoted police dog, end up running away from there. He then finds himself entangled in a dog show Read More
Actors: Ann Sothern, Linda Darnell, James Ellison, Jean Rogers, Lynn Bari
Synopsis: In this romance, a young woman journeys from Syracuse to New York to see her sweetheart, a prominent architect. She is bitterly disappointed to discover that he has lost interest in her. The residents of the women's hotel at which she stays offer the heartbroken lass words of encouragement. They Read More
Actors: Claudette Colbert, James Stewart, Guy Kibbee, Frances Drake, Nat Pendleton
Synopsis: In this frothy screwball comedy, Guy Johnson (James Stewart) is a private detective who is dedicated to his job but still quite green and a bit of a bumbler. Guy is hired to keep a close watch on Willie Heyward (Ernest Truex), a footloose millionaire with a habit of getting into trouble. One Read More
Actors: Jack Holt, Ralph Morgan, Paul Everton, C. Henry Gordon
Synopsis: In this exciting spy drama, enemy agents endeavor to steal the plans for a top secret silent aircraft. The plane's inventor wants to sell his invention to other countries but his government will only allow it if the test flights fail. The prototype is sabotaged and crashes on the first test Read More
Synopsis: Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from past American historical epics. The project was sponsored by the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, Inc. and supervised by Cecil B. DeMille, who also edited Read More
Actors: Brian Donlevy, Lynn Bari, Wally Vernon, Douglas Dumbrille
Synopsis: Sharpshooters was the initial entry in what was to have been a series of six "Camera Daredevils" adventures. Brian Donlevy and Wally Vernon star as Steve and Waldo, intrepid newsreel cameraman on assignment in the mythical kingdom of Mitovania. It isn't long before our heroes discover that Michael Read More
Actors: The Ritz Brothers [Al, Jimmy, Harry], Richard Arlen, Ethel Merman, Phyllis Brooks, George Barbier
Synopsis: In this musical comedy, the Ritz Brothers inherit a racehorse but are unable to make money from him because they cannot come up with the $1,000 needed to enter him in the big race. The two get involved with the race anyway when they overhear a group of Russian jockeys conspiring to ruin the race. Read More
Actors: Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Annabella, J. Edward Bromberg, Joseph Schildkraut
Synopsis: This is an epic Darryl F. Zanuck production that plays fast and loose with historical facts regarding early 19th century French politics and the building of the Suez Canal. Tyrone Power stars as Ferdinand de Lesseps, an engineer and son of a French nobleman (Harry Stephenson). At the start of the Read More
Actors: Fredric March, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy, Ann Sothern, Sidney Blackmer
Synopsis: Joan Bennett plays a young woman who believes she's killed bigtime crook Sidney Blackmer. She changes her hair color from blonde to brunette and escapes from San Francisco to parts unknown. Police detective Fredric March is hired to track down Bennett, which he does in the company of two Read More
Actors: Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Alice Brady, Andy Devine, Brian Donlevy
Synopsis: In Old Chicago was 20th Century-Fox's spin on MGM's San Francisco--a personal saga played out against the backdrop of a famous 19th Century disaster. Alice Brady plays Mrs. O'Leary, a widow who brings her two young boys to the sleepy village of Chicago. As the city grows in prominence and Read More
Actors: Michael Whalen, Jean Rogers, Chick Chandler, Robert Kellard, Joan Woodbury
Synopsis: While New York Sleeps is when fast-talking reporter Barney Callahan (Michael Whalen) prowls the night beat for a great metropolitan newspaper. At present, Callahan is trying to find out who's responsible for a series of baffling murders. The victims were all bond carriers, and the cops have Read More
Actors: Michael Whalen, Lynn Bari, Marvin Stephens, Henry Armetta, Chick Chandler
Synopsis: Horse racing provides the framework of this crime drama that centers on an orphan who has been raising a promising horse. The trouble begins when the trainer who employs him sells the beast to the police department and ends its racing career forever. The angry boy begins investigating and with the Read More
Actors: Shirley Temple, Jean Hersholt, Arthur Treacher, Helen Westley, Pauline Moore
Synopsis: Johanna Spyri's perennial children's favorite Heidi was retailored to the talents of Shirley Temple, resulting in one of her best vehicles. Orphaned early in the proceeding, Heidi is left in the care of her bitter, misanthropic grandfather Adolph Kramer (Jean Hersholt). It doesn't take long before Read More
Actors: Leslie Fenton, Muriel Evans, Noel Madison, Sidney Blackmer, Morgan Wallace
Synopsis: A young man is in danger of losing his inheritance in this muddled thriller from the waning Chesterfield Motion Picture Corp., a remake of the company's first talkie. After rescuing a pretty girl from a brute while crossing the English channel, Barry Wilding (Leslie Fenton) learns that he has Read More
Actors: Robert Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck, Victor McLaglen, Brian Donlevy, Sidney Blackmer
Synopsis: Based on fact, this turn-of-the-century crime drama stars Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck (husband and wife at the time). Taylor plays a seemingly disreputable young man who joins a gang of murderous bank robbers, headed by Victor McLaglen. Stanwyck is a beer-hall entertainer, who disapproves Read More
Actors: Loretta Young, Warner Baxter, Virginia Bruce, Jane Darwell, Sidney Blackmer
Synopsis: Loretta Young is the wife, Warner Baxter the doctor and Virginia Bruce the nurse in this 20th Century-Fox trifle. Society gal Young marries Park Avenue medico Baxter, little guessing that humble nursie Bruce also loves the doc. Young raises vociferous objections, compelling Bruce to leave. Read More
Actors: George Murphy, Josephine Hutchinson, Claire Dodd, Sidney Blackmer, Cliff Edwards
Synopsis: In this comedy drama, a newspaper report discovers that a popular religious cult is really a scam. Unbeknownst to him, his wife is messing around with his managing editor. When he finds out, he leaves them and begins his own affair with the female reporter he has secretly loved all along. ~ Sandra Read More
Actors: Peter Lorre, Thomas Beck, Pauline Frederick, Jayne Regan, Sidney Blackmer
Synopsis: The second of eight 1930s films based on J. P. Marquand's Japanese detective, Thank You, Mr. Moto finds Moto (Peter Lorre) coming to the aid of Chinese royalty. The last remaining members of an ancient Chinese clan (Pauline Frederick and Philip Ahn) have in their possession six of seven scrolls Read More
Actors: Edward G. Robinson, James Stewart, Rosa Stradner, Lionel Stander, Douglas Scott
Synopsis: Edward G. Robinson offers an excellent turn as a crime lord obsessed with the welfare of his son in this melodramatic crime story. The lad is born while the notorious Robinson serves 10 years. Unfortunately, the press hound the babies mother and constantly derider her until a kinder reporter takes Read More
Synopsis: In this tearjerker, a 10-year old orphan and his crippled sister struggle to survive. The newsboy is devoted to his little sister and will do anything to help her. After their parents die, a local woman, embroiled in a messy divorce, endeavors to help them by taking them in. She also wants to help Read More
Actors: George Bancroft, Helen Burgess, John Trent, Ruth Coleman
Synopsis: A Doctor's Diary is told through the eyes of Dr. Dan Norris (John Trent), resident physician in a private hospital. In his search for a cure for spinal meningitis, Norris recklessly runs roughshod over the feelings of his colleagues. The doctor's older, wiser supervisor, Dr. Clem Driscoll (George Bancroft Read More
Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, James Ellison, George "Gabby" Hayes, Sidney Blackmer
Synopsis: Based on Clarence E. Mulford's Mesquite Jenkins, Tumbleweed from 1932, Heart of the West addresses the issue of fences on the hitherto free range. Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) and Johnny Nelson (James Ellison) have been hired to head a cattle drive by Trumbull (Sidney Blackmer), but then learn Read More
Actors: Edward Arnold, Francine Larrimore, Gail Patrick, George Bancroft, John Trent
Synopsis: Edward Arnold once again plays a self-made businessman who inadvertently engineers his own downfall in John Meade's Woman. Starting with a second-rate tree-cutting business, Meade rapidly becomes a powerful lumber tycoon, using underhanded methods to rise to the top and crushing anyone who gets in Read More
Actors: Gloria Stuart, Walter Pidgeon, Billy Burrud, Hobart Cavanaugh, Gerald Oliver Smith
Synopsis: The Girl Overboard is Mary Chesebrooke (Gloria Stuart) but she doesn't take her dunk into the deep until the film's final minutes. A department-store model, Mary takes a break from her work and embarks upon an ocean voyage. Any hopes for a peaceful vacation are dashed when one of Mary's fellow Read More
Actors: Esther Ralston, Regis Toomey, John Farrell MacDonald, Oscar Apfel, Sidney Blackmer
Synopsis: Released by Monogram in 1937, Shadows of the Orient was actually produced independently several years earlier by Larry Darmour. Arrested in a raid on a Chinese gambling joint, judge's daughter Viola Avery (Esther Ralston) is rescued from disgrace by King Moss (Sidney Blackmer), owner of the Read More
Actors: Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Virginia Field, Sidney Blackmer, Harold Huber
Synopsis: Charlie Chan was the Jessica Fletcher of the 1930s; no matter where he took a vacation, someone got murdered! This time, the wily Chan (Warner Oland) and son Lee (Keye Luke) are on holiday in Monte Carlo when a casino messenger is killed while en route to Paris. The messenger was carrying a Read More
Actors: Jack Oakie, Sally Eilers, Kent Taylor, Frances Drake, John Farrell MacDonald
Synopsis: A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue in this comedy. Among the passengers is a millionaire bon vivant carrying $1 million in diamonds. He is fully aware that a gang of would-be jewel thieves have followed him and so pretends to be an invalid with an ice bag perpetually stuck Read More
Actors: Gertrude Michael, George Murphy, Akim Tamiroff, Sidney Blackmer, Samuel S. Hinds
Synopsis: A gangland murder is the motivating factor of this fast-moving crime drama. George Murphy stars as reporter Kent Shevlin, whose investigation of the murder leads to a tenure as a temporary FBI agent. His subsequent adventures lead him to Mexico, where he makes the acquaintance of Ramirez (Akim Tamiroff Read More
Actors: Roger Pryor, Muriel Evans, Sidney Blackmer, Noel Madison, Ann Doran
Synopsis: A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty Row production directed by the redoubtable Phil Rosen. Runaway Ann Jason (Ann Doran) finds shelter in big, bad New York City with the Traveler's Aid Society, one of those organizations run by bored Read More
Actors: Henry Wilcoxon, Betty Furness, Sidney Blackmer, Evelyn Brent, Barnett Parker
Synopsis: The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is the tale of a prominent lawyer who shocks his snooty friends, family and colleagues by abruptly abandoning his successful practice and his wife to find true happiness. He Read More
Actors: Mary Boland, Charlie Ruggles, George Barbier, Gail Patrick, Robert McWade
Synopsis: In one of the best Charlie Ruggles-Mary Boland vehicles of the 1930s, Ruggles plays a mild mannered husband prone to sleepwalking. His nocturnal prowlings cause no end of embarrassment for his wife (Mary Boland), especially since Ruggles is a more aggressive personality when asleep. Eventually Read More
Actors: Wynne Gibson, Warren Hull, Jackie Moran, Charlene Wyatt, Sidney Blackmer
Synopsis: In this four-hanky drama, a young wife is desperate to save her foundering marriage and so takes in two adorable foundlings, a boy and his paralyzed sister. The woman arranges for the poor little girl to have an operation. At first, the woman only does this to sway the judge in her favor, but in Read More
Actors: Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore, Evelyn Venable, John Lodge, Sidney Blackmer
Synopsis: Shirley Temple's first costume picture -- and one of her best pictures of any kind -- was 1935's The Little Colonel. The story begins in 1870, when unreconstructed Southerner Colonel Lloyd (Lionel Barrymore) disowns his daughter Elizabeth (Evelyn Venable) when she stubbornly marries damn-Yankee Read More
Actors: Shirley Grey, Noel Madison, Matthew Betz
Synopsis: Shirley Grey plays The Girl Who Came Back in this Chesterfield Pictures "special". Grey is cast as Gilda, a former gun moll who turns her back on her crooked past and heads west to start life anew. Under an assumed name, she gets a job as a bank teller, only to be reunited with her former gangland Read More
Actors: Sidney Blackmer, Martha Sleeper, Regis Toomey, Gloria Shea, Edwin Maxwell
Synopsis: Apparently having cornered the market in white-collar crooks in 1935, Sidney Blackmer plays a shifty financier in Monogram's The Great God Gold. Blackmer is cast as John Hart, a "receivership representative" for shysters Nitto (Edwin Maxwell) and Simon (John T. Murray). Hart's present assignment Read More
Actors: Irene Ware, Sidney Blackmer, Russell Hopton, Betty Compson, Edward Gargan
Synopsis: Former Miss America Irene Ware stars in the standard Chestefield Pictures social drama False Pretenses. Ware is cast as lunch-counter waitress Mary Beekman, who intends to crash society and land a wealthy husband. She is helped along by affable millionaire Kenneth Alden (Sidney Blackmer), who Read More
Actors: Norman Foster, Judith Allen, Sidney Blackmer, Purnell Pratt, Theodore Von Eltz
Synopsis: Ruthless criminal attorney Raymond Cortell (Sidney Blackmer) is not above bending and twisting the law to suit his purposes, making him a well-paid pariah amongst his peers. Practically the only person who believes that Cortell's tactics are ethical is his faithful assistant Mary (Judith Allen) Read More
Actors: Esther Ralston, Onslow Stevens, Sidney Blackmer, Toby Wing, Eddie Nugent
Synopsis: In this high-flying mystery set aboard a cross-country flight to New York, some of the passengers are kidnappers who are trying to locate a hidden cache of loot. Unfortunately, something goes wrong during the trip and the pilots must land the plane in the Arizona desert during a terrible storm. Read More
Actors: Charles Bickford, Sidney Blackmer, Helen Vinson, Onslow Stevens, Dudley Digges
Synopsis: Commenting upon the many relatives on the payroll of Carl Laemmle's Universal Pictures, poet Ogden Nash once wrote "Uncle Carl Laemmle/Has a large faemmlee." One member of that faemmle was Edward Laemmle, director of the courtroom melodrama A Notorious Gentleman. Charles Bickford plays the Read More
Actors: Ida Lupino, Kent Taylor, Gail Patrick, Joseph Cawthorn, Pinky Tomlin
Synopsis: Socialite Pat Reynolds (Ida Lupino) is forced to become the "smart girl" of the title when her wealthy father commits suicide, leaving nothing but a pile of debts. Pat sets up a successful hat-designing business, providing the sole support for herself and her sister Kay (Gail Patrick). So devoted Read More
Actors: Evelyn Venable, Victor Jory, Esther Ralston, Ralph Forbes, Sidney Blackmer
Synopsis: Grand Hotel meets Twentieth Century in this Mascot feature. Evelyn Venable stars as Patricia Wells, a tempestuous stage actress who impulsively elopes on opening night of her newest play. Wells and her new fiancée Fred Arnold (Ralph Forbes) book adjoining compartments on the Streamline Express Read More
Actors: Gene Raymond, Jack Benny, Nancy Carroll, Sydney Howard, Mitzi Green
Synopsis: While crossing the Atlantic aboard a luxury liner, a radio troupe (led by Jack Benny) becomes involved in a murder mystery among a buffet of romance, music, trickery and blackmail--ornamented with a few musical numbers. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Janet Beecher, Paul Kelly, Peggy Conklin, Rosalind Russell
Synopsis: Based upon a novel anonymously written by Rex Stout, The President Vanishes has as its title character a peace-loving man with distinct anti-interventionist views. As the picture opens, President Stanley Craig (A.S. Byron) finds himself in a bit of a bind: he fervently believes that the United Read More
Actors: Mary Boland, Polly Moran, Ned Sparks, Sidney Fox, Sidney Blackmer
Synopsis: The musical picture that ended Lou Brock's career as an RKO Radio producer, Down to Their Last Yacht is almost festive in its awfulness. The nonsensical plot finds a group of impoverished socialites (including Sidney Blackmer and Marjorie Gateson) trying to raise money by renting out their yacht Read More
Actors: Veree Teasdale, Mayo Methot, Sidney Blackmer, Phyllis Barry, Ray Walker
Synopsis: Goodbye Love is a lampoon of what was once designated the "alimony racket." Refusing to meet his wife's exorbitant alimony demands, Sidney Blackmer volunteers to go to jail, where he finds that his cellmate is his own valet (Charlie Ruggles), incarcerated because he can't make his alimony Read More
Actors: Robert Donat, Elissa Landi, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer, Raymond Walburn
Synopsis: Few famous novels have been filmed as often as Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo--and few versions are as enjoyable as this 1934 adaptation starring Robert Donat. Donat plays Edmond Dantes, wrongly accused of a plot against the post-Napoleonic French government. Condemned to a prison Read More
Actors: Irene Dunne, Ralph Bellamy, Constance Cummings, Kay Johnson, Charles Starrett
Synopsis: Jane Mufin's stage play Love Flies in the Window was the basis for the RKO Radio assembly-line romance This Man is Mine. Happily married to dull but dependable Jim Dunlap (Ralph Bellamy), level-headed Toni Dunlap (Irene Dunne) suddenly finds herself forced to fight for her husband's affections. Read More
Actors: Peggy Shannon, Sidney Blackmer, Lois Wilson, Matt Moore, Fred Kohler, Jr.
Synopsis: This remarkable early-talkie "disaster" flick was the first directorial effort of Felix E. Feist. An enormous tidal wave destroys New York City and most of the Eastern seaboard -- and that's only the beginning of the picture! The rest of the film deals with the aftermath of the deluge. Hero Martin Read More
Actors: Bebe Daniels, Randolph Scott, Muriel Kirkland, Jessie Ralph, Sidney Blackmer
Synopsis: This melodrama, with a few comic overtones, was not the finest moment for either star Bebe Daniels or director Victor Schertzinger (who also composed the music and songs). It also hasn't weathered the years well, since its male chauvinism has fallen way out of favor. In fact, to modern eyes, Randolph Scott Read More
Actors: Carole Lombard, Jack Oakie, Adrienne Ames, David Manners, Sidney Blackmer
Synopsis: The world of horse racing provides the backdrop for this episodic drama. Much of the story is set at the Luray Springs Hotel where the characters wait for the running of the Capitol Handicap. The main story focuses upon Colly Tannyer, a pretty young handicapper who must wrangle up $10,000 so she Read More
Actors: Jack Holt, Genevieve Tobin, George E. Stone, Sidney Blackmer, Ward Bond
Synopsis: The Wrecker is a flinty-eyed demolition engineer named Regan (Jack Holt). While he's off on another assignment, Regan's wife Mary (Genevieve Tobin) and supposed best friend Cummings (Sidney Blackmer) engage in some heavy petting. About to wash his hands of his faithless wife and his back-stabbing Read More
Actors: Lila Lee, Raymond Hatton, Fred Kohler, Ken Thomson
Synopsis: In this western, three rambunctious young cowboys head for the hills after spending a night painting a town red and terrorizing its residents. During their flight, they find a woman from the East alone at her brother's home. They are preparing to rape her, but they do not count on her ingenuity. Read More
Actors: Marion Davies, Sidney Blackmer, James Gleason, Polly Moran, Lester Vail
Synopsis: In this comedy, a conservative family becomes alarmed when they begin believing their daughter is pregnant. They frantically begin searching for the father. The search is narrowed down to three possibilities: her ex-fiancee, her current one, or her legal guardian. Meanwhile, a drunken son marries Read More
Actors: Sidney Blackmer, Conway Tearle, Judith Vosselli, Lloyd Ingraham
Synopsis: Conway Tearle stars as Jack Norton, a diamond smuggler operating in South America who is strong-armed into participating in a blackmail scheme. Norton is to obtain several compromising photos of Margaret Townsend (Billie Dove), the wife of American consulate Charles Townsend (Sidney Blackmer). The Read More
Actors: Evelyn Laye, John Boles, Leon Errol, Lilyan Tashman, Hugh Cameron
Synopsis: Samuel Goldwyn attempted to turn British operetta star Evelyn Laye into another Jeanette MacDonald with this cardboard romance that proved a disaster at the operetta-weary box office. Laye plays Lilli, a demure flower girl at a Budapest theater who worships the show's star, the temperamental and Read More
Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Glenda Farrell, Sidney Blackmer, Thomas E. Jackson
Synopsis: The first "talkie" gangster movie to capture the public's imagination, Mervyn LeRoy's Little Caesar started a cycle of crime-related movies that Warner Bros. rode across the ensuing decade and right into World War II with titles such as All Through the Night (1941). At the start of the picture Read More
Actors: Otis Skinner, Loretta Young, David Manners, Mary Duncan, Sidney Blackmer
Synopsis: Edward Knoblock's warhorse theatrical piece Kismet, first filmed in 1920, resurfaced as a talkie in 1930. Repeating the role he'd created on stage in 1911, Otis Skinner stars as Hajji, the wily Baghdad beggar who goes from rags to riches to rags again to riches again in the space of 24 hours. Read More
Actors: Dorothy Peterson, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Edward Woods, Evelyn Knapp
Synopsis: The pain of raising children alone is presented in this tragedy that centers on the failure of a widowed mother of four bratty children to raise her children correctly. Each of them grows up to a sad adult life. One daughter endures a grim May-December marriage. One son, a talented architect, must Read More
Actors: Dorothy Mackaill, Sidney Blackmer, Julanne Johnston, Warner P. Richmond, Mickey Bennett
Synopsis: A successful female writer finally finds true love in this romance. The story begins as the writer's cousin prepares to marry her fiancé. The wedding is called when the groom finds his bride-to-be a tad domineering for his tastes. He is returning home on the train when he encounters the writer. Read More
Actors: Walter Huston, Dorothy Revier, James Rennie, O.P. Heggie, Sidney Blackmer
Synopsis: Based on Porter Emerson Browne's 1920 play of the same name, The Bad Man features Walter Huston as the title character, bold Mexican bandido Pancho Lopez. Holding Americans Ruth Pell (Dorothy Revier) and her wealthy husband Morgan (Sidney Blackmer) for ransom, Lopez takes a liking to Ruth and Read More
Actors: Billie Dove, Sidney Blackmer, Clive Brook, Leila Hyams, Fletcher Norton
Synopsis: Other Men's Wives, a play by Walter Hackett, was the source for this early-talkie comedy-melodrama. The scene is a sinister French Inn, where a woman is murdered and a valuable necklace is stolen. Among the predatory types searching for the missing gems is philandering noblewoman Angela Read More
Synopsis: In this drama, a woman finds herself abandoned when the man she assumed was her husband suddenly marches in, announces that they were never legally married, and leaves. Many years pass and the woman is on a jury for a murder case involving a woman in similar straits as she once was. It is then Read More
Actors: Leatrice Joy, Walter Pidgeon, Montagu Love, Josephine Dunn
Synopsis: The Perils of Pauline was not the first movie serial ever made, but it is perhaps the best known -- though that doesn't mean it was the best. The throughline of this 18-episode chapter play was disarmingly simple: Pauline Harvin (Pearl White) has fallen heir to a fortune, all of which will Read More
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