Anna and the King of Siam 1946  N/R, 128 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: John Cromwell
Cast: Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Lee J. Cobb, Gale Sondergaard, Mikhail Rasumny, Dennis Hoey, Richard Lyon, William Edmunds, John Abbott, Tito Renaldo, Addison Richards, Ben Welden
British widow Anna (Irene Dunne) travels to Siam in 1862 to teach the royal children. While there, the King (Rex Harrison) and Anna develop a warm friendship through which she convinces the King to employ more humane treatment of his subjects. This film won Oscars for Best Cinematography and Art Direction and was the film debut for Harrison. The story was later remade as the musical "The King and I." Gale Sondergaard received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
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Anthony Adverse 1936 N/R, 136 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland, Edmund Gwenn, Claude Rains, Anita Louise, Gale Sondergaard, Donald Woods, Akim Tamiroff, J. Carrol Naish, Louis Hayward
Set in the early 1800s, this is the story of Anthony Adverse (Fredric March), an adventurer who runs afoul of Napoleon and heads for America to seek fame and fortune. Gale Sondergaard won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. The film won three other Academy Awards and nominations included Best Picture.
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Appointment in Berlin 1943  N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alfred E. Green
Cast: George Sanders, Marguerite Chapman, Onslow Stevens, Gale Sondergaard, Alan Napier, H.P. Sanders, Donald Douglas, Jack Lee, Alec Craig, Steven Geray
Keith Wilson (George Sanders) performs heroic acts as a British Secret Service spy when he broadcasts from Germany and sends war information to London via secret code.
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 The Black Cat 1941  N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Horror / Mystery / Comedy
Director: Albert S. Rogell
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Hugh Herbert, Broderick Crawford, Bela Lugosi, Gale Sondergaard, Anne Gwynne, Gladys Cooper, Alan Ladd, Claire Dodd, John Eldredge, Cecilia Loftus
When cat-loving dowager Henrietta Winslow (Cecilia Loftus) dies, her greedy relatives converge on her haunted mansion for the reading of her will looking for their fortunes. Now, they must deal with screams in the night and hidden passages.
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The Blue Bird 1940 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Walter Lang
Cast: Shirley Temple, Spring Byington, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard, Eddie Collins, Sybil Jason, Jessie Ralph, Helen Ericson, Johnny Russell, Laura Hope Crews, Russell Hicks, Cecilia Loftus, Gene Reynolds, Stanley Andrews
In a change of character for Shirley Temple, she plays a little brat who leaves home but finds that happiness can only be found through unselfishness.
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Brainwaves 1982  PG, 80 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Ulli Lommel
Cast: Keir Dullea, Suzanna Love, Tony Curtis, Vera Miles, Percy Rodriguez, Paul Willson, Ryan Seitz, Nicholas Love, Corinne Wahl, Eve Brent Ashe, Gale Sondergaard, Ruth Roman
Following brain surgery, a young woman (Suzanna Love) has flashbacks to a murder and finds herself being stalked by the murderer.
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The Cat and the Canary 1939  N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Comedy / Mystery
Director: Elliott Nugent
Cast: Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, John Beal, Douglass Montgomery, Gale Sondergaard, Elizabeth Patterson, Nydia Westman, George Zucco, John Wray, Milton Kibbee
This remake of the 1927 classic film is a comedy/mystery that established Bob Hope's film career in a tale involving a group of murdering relatives spending the night in a haunted house awaiting word of who will inherit a fortune.
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The Climax 1944 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: George Waggner
Cast: Boris Karloff, Susanna Foster, Turhan Bey, Gale Sondergaard, Thomas Gomez, George Dolenz, June Vincent, Ludwig Stossel, Scotty Beckett, William Edmunds
A psychopath, Doctor Hohner (Boris Karloff), is obsessed with a young opera soprano, Angela (Susanna Foster), whose singing reminds him of the woman in his past who he loved and then killed.
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Dramatic School 1938 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert B. Sinclair
Cast: Luise Rainer, Paulette Goddard, Alan Marshal, Lana Turner, Gale Sondergaard, Ann Rutherford, Hans Conried, Rand Brooks, Frank Puglia, Henry Stephenson
Louise (Luise Rainer) attends a dramatic school in Paris and has trouble juggling her career and marriage.
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East Side, West Side 1949 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, James Mason, Van Heflin, Ava Gardner, Cyd Charisse, Nancy Davis, Gale Sondergaard, William Conrad, William Frawley, Raymond Greenleaf
An upper-class Manhattan couple, Jessie and Brandon Bourne (Barbara Stanwyck and James Mason), have marital problems because of Brandon's roaming eye.
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Echoes 1983 R, 89 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Living Nightmare
Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman
Cast: Richard Alfieri, Nathalie Nell, Ruth Roman, Gale Sondergaard, Mercedes McCambridge, Mike Kellin, John Spencer, Paul Joynt, Leonard Crofoot, Dennis Wayne
In this psychic tale, Michael Durant (Richard Alfieri) is suffering from recurrent nightmares about being attacked by his unborn twin brother.
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Follow the Boys 1944 N/R, 122 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical / Drama
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: George Raft, Vera Zorina, Charley Grapewin, Jeanette MacDonald, Regis Toomey, Orson Welles, Marlene Dietrich, W.C. Fields, Gale Sondergaard, Grace McDonald, Charles Butterworth, Ramsay Ames, Elizabeth Patterson, George Macready, Theodore von Eltz
This is Universal Studio's all-star effort to help morale in America during World War II. The story involves a brother-sister-father (George Raft, Jeanette MacDonald, and Charley Grapewin) vaudeville act that moves to Hollywood where Tony (Raft) gains stardom with Gloria Vance (Vera Zorina). When World War II erupts, Tony, whose bad knee keeps him out of the service, organizes an all-star tour to entertain the troops. Dozens of stars are featured in the show, which features songs, dances and comedy skits.
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The Invisible Man's Revenge 1944 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Ford Beebe
Cast: Jon Hall, Alan Curtis, Evelyn Ankers, Leon Errol, John Carradine, Ian Wolfe, Gale Sondergaard, Halliwell Hobbes, Lester Matthews, Skelton Knaggs
Robert Griffin (Jon Hall) gets hold of a serum that makes him invisible and creates mayhem for a couple (Gale Sondergaard and Lester Matthews) who once had tried to kill him.
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Isle of Forgotten Sins 1943 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Monsoon
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Cast: John Carradine, Gale Sondergaard, Sidney Toler, Frank Fenton, Rita Quigley, Veda Ann Borg, Rick Vallin, Betty Amann, Tala Birell, Patti McCarty
Two deep-sea divers (John Carradine and Frank Fenton) hold their own against the diabolical ship captain (Sidney Toler) who has his own plans for taking over the sunken treasure they seek.
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Juarez 1939 N/R, 132 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Dieterle
Cast: Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Brian Aherne, John Garfield, Gale Sondergaard, Claude Rains, Donald Crisp, Joseph Calleia, Gilbert Roland, Henry O'Neill
This film relates the story of Mexico's peasant leader who sets out to liberate his country from Emperor Maximillian in the 1860s.
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 The Letter 1940  N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama
Director: William Wyler
Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Frieda Inescort, David Newell, Gale Sondergaard, Victor Sen Yung, Bruce Lester, Cecil Kellaway, Doris Lloyd, Elizabeth Inglis, Willie Fung, Tetsu Komai, Leonard Mudie, John Ridgely
Somerset Maugham's play is brought to the screen in this film about circumstances following Leslie Crosbie's (Bette Davis) supposed self-defense murder of her lover, Geoffrey (David Newell). Geoffrey's widow (Gale Sondergaard) appears on the scene and says she has a letter from Leslie inviting Geoffrey to visit and that he was Leslie's lover. Leslie pays the $10,000 in blackmail money that is being demanded for the letter. The trial convenes, and her lawyer's (James Stephenson) defense proves Leslie innocent. Now, her husband Robert (Herbert Marshall) discovers that $10,000 is missing from his bank account, Leslie confesses, and Robert forgives her. But, everyone has not forgiven her, and a surprise visitor is lurking in Leslie's garden. The film received seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Actress (Davis), Supporting Actor (Stephenson), and Director. Remade in 1947 as "The Unfaithful" and in 1982 as "The Letter" for TV.
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Life of Emile Zola 1937 N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Dieterle
Cast: Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard, Donald Crisp, Joseph Schildkraut, Gloria Holden, Louis Calhern, Harry Davenport, Erin O'Brien-Moore, John Litel, Henry O'Neill, Morris Carnovsky, Robert Barrat, Vladimir Sokoloff, Robert Warwick
This film won the Academy Award for Best Picture. It tells the story of writer Emile Zola (Paul Muni) who was aroused by the unfair trial of Alfred Dreyfus in the 1800s. Oscars also went to Joseph Schildkraut for Best Supporting Actor and to Norman Raine for Best Screenplay. There were seven other nominations, including Best Actor (Muni) and Director.
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The Llano Kid 1940  N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Edward Venturini
Cast: Tito Guizar, Gale Sondergaard, Alan Mowbray, Jan Clayton, Emma Dunn, Minor Watson, Chris-Pin Martin, Carlos de Valdez, Glenn Strange, Tony Roux
Based on an O. Henry story, this film stars Tito Guizar as the Llano Kid, a masked (and singing) highwayman along the Texas-Mexican border. Along come Lora (Gale Sondergaard) and John (Alan Mowbray) Travers who are in search of a rich heir. After seeing the Kid unmasked, Lora does not rat on him during a trial. She then concocts a scheme where the Kid pretends to be the heir so that she can share the wealth. Eventually, the Kid makes the right decision.
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Maid of Salem 1937 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Louise Dresser, Gale Sondergaard, Beulah Bondi, Bonita Granville, Donald Meek, Harvey Stephens, E.E. Clive, Benny Bartlett, Edward Ellis, Virginia Weidler, Halliwell Hobbes, Pedro de Cordoba, Madame Sul-Te-Wan
Allegations of women being witches is the subject of this film set in colonial Massachusetts. Pretty good.
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 The Mark of Zorro 1940  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Western / Romance
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Cast: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, J. Edward Bromberg, Eugene Pallette, Montagu Love, George Regas, Janet Beecher, Robert Lowery, Chris-Pin Martin, Bell Mitchell, Eugene Borden, Frank Puglia, John Bleifer
Don Diego Vega (Tyrone Power) is an aristocrat who returns to California in the early 1800s and fights the injustice of dictator Don Luis Quintero (J. Edward Bromberg) and his henchman Capt. Pasquale (Basil Rathbone) who are now ruling the district after displacing Don Diego's father Don Alejandro (Montagu Love) as governor. Don Diego is in love with Quintero's niece, Lolita (Linda Darnell), but he dons his mask and becomes Zorro, fighting against Quintero's corruption and leaving his mark as he battles for justice. Lots of fun and adventure.
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My Favorite Blonde 1942 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Cast: Bob Hope, Madeleine Carroll, Gale Sondergaard, George Zucco, Victor Varconi, Lionel Royce, Walter Kingsford, Edward Gargan, Charles Cane, Bing Crosby, Otto Reichow, Esther Howard, James Burke, Dooley Wilson, Milton Parsons
Vaudeville entertainer Larry Haines (Bob Hope) performs on the stage with his trained penguin. While on a train bound for Los Angeles, Larry meets Karen (Madeleine Carroll) who is a spy. She talks Larry into helping her escape from Nazi agents, and he agrees. Now both of them are on the lam trying to escape their pursuers while the penguin, unbeknownst to Larry, is used by Karen to carry secret documents. Watch for Bing Crosby in his cameo appearance as the man giving Larry and Karen directions.
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Never Say Die 1939 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Elliott Nugent
Cast: Martha Raye, Bob Hope, Andy Devine, Alan Mowbray, Gale Sondergaard, Sig Ruman, Paul Harvey, Monty Woolley, Ernest Cossart, Ivan F. Simpson
When millionaire John Kidley (Bob Hope) believes he is dying, he marries Mickey Hawkins (Martha Raye) so she can gain his near-future inheritance.
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A Night in Paradise 1946 N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Arthur Lubin
Cast: Merle Oberon, Turhan Bey, Thomas Gomez, Gale Sondergaard, Ray Collins, George Dolenz, John Litel, Douglass Dumbrille, Marvin Miller, Moroni Olsen
When Aesop (Turhan Bey) goes to the court of King Croesus (Thomas Gomez) to plead for his country's rights, he is bedazzled by the beautiful Princess Delarai (Merle Oberon).
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A Night to Remember 1943 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Wallace
Cast: Loretta Young, Brian Aherne, Jeff Donnell, Will Wright, Gale Sondergaard, Sidney Toler, Donald MacBride, Lee Patrick, Don Costello, Blanche Yurka
Mystery writer Jeff Troy (Brian Aherne) and his wife, Nancy (Loretta Young), find a dead body in their apartment. After more than one misstep, the amateur sleuths really do find the killer.
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Paris Calling 1941 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Edwin L. Marin
Cast: Elisabeth Bergner, Randolph Scott, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, Lee J. Cobb, Charles Arnt, Eduardo Ciannelli, Elisabeth Risdon, Georges Renavent, William Edmunds
The courage of a Frenchwoman, Marianne (Elisabeth Bergner), who joins the Resistance movement during World War II, is depicted in this insightful film about espionage used to inhibit Nazi control of Paris.
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The Return of a Man Called Horse 1976 PG, 129 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cast: Richard Harris, Gale Sondergaard, Geoffrey Lewis, William Lucking, Jorge Luke, Enrique Lucero, Ana DeSade, Claudio Brook, Jorge Russek
This excellent sequel to "A Man Called Horse" again features Richard Harris portraying John Morgan, a former captive of the Sioux who returns to America to help save his tribe from the perils of Western expansion by white Americans. There is another sequel: "Triumphs of a Man Called Horse."
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Road to Rio 1947 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Cast: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Gale Sondergaard, Frank Faylen, Frank Puglia, Jerry Colonna, The Andrews Sisters, Nestor Paiva, Joseph Vitale
Scat Sweeney (Bing Crosby) and Hot Lips Barton (Bob Hope) hop a ship bound for Rio de Janeiro and help a hypnotized young woman (Dorothy Lamour) who is being forced into an arranged marriage.
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Seventh Heaven 1937 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Henry King
Cast: Simone Simon, James Stewart, Jean Hersholt, Gregory Ratoff, Gale Sondergaard, J. Edward Bromberg, John Qualen, Victor Kilian, Sig Ruman, Thomas Beck, Georges Renavent, Mady Christians, Rafaela Ottiano, Rolo Lloyd, Edward Keane
Diane (Simone Simon) is exploited as a prostitute by her sister Nana (Gale Sondergaard) and then thrown out of the house. A Parisian sewer worker, Chico (James Stewart), rescues Diane, and she moves into his slum apartment. World War I breaks out just as Chico realizes that he is in love with Diane, but he is drafted and leaves for the front. Four years later, Chico, blinded during the war, returns to a loving Diane who is waiting for him.
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Slaves 1969 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Herbert J. Biberman
Cast: Ossie Davis, Stephen Boyd, Nancy Coleman, David Huddleston, Shepperd Strudwick, Gale Sondergaard, Dionne Warwick, Julius Harris, Marilyn Clark, Eva Jessye, Robert Kya-Hill
Luke (Ossie Davis) suffers at the hands of a cruel plantation owner, McKay (Stephen Boyd), in this very out-dated film about racial relationships. Highlight: Gale Sondergaard returns to films after 20 years, having been blacklisted for her political views in the late 1940s.
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 The Spider Woman 1944 N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman
Director: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard, Dennis Hoey, Mary Gordon, Vernon Downing, Alec Craig, Arthur Hohl, Stanley Logan, Harry Cording
Gale Sondergaard is the Spider Woman whose game is to drive gamblers to the point of suicide so that she can collect on their insurance. Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) puts an end to her evil deeds in this good episode.
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 The Spider Woman Strikes Back 1946 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Arthur Lubin
Cast: Brenda Joyce, Gale Sondergaard, Kirby Grant, Rondo Hatton, Milburn Stone, Hobart Cavanaugh, Norman Leavitt, Guy Wilkerson, Hans Herbert, Horace Murphy
With little in common with the excellent 1944 "The Spider Woman," this is the story of a naive young girl (Brenda Joyce) who comes to realize that her employer is the notorious criminal, "Spider Woman" (Gale Sondergaard).
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Strange Death of Adolf Hitler 1943 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: James P. Hogan
Cast: Ludwig Donath, Gale Sondergaard, George Dolenz, Fritz Kortner, Frederick Giermann, William Trenk, Merrill Rodin, Ludwig Stossel, Charles Bates, Joan Blair
In this wartime drama, Hitler's officers become involved in a plot to take over the government.
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The Time of Their Lives 1946  N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charles Barton
Cast: Lou Costello, Bud Abbott, Marjorie Reynolds, Binnie Barnes, Gale Sondergaard, John Shelton, Jess Barker, Robert Barrat, Donald MacBride, Ann Gillis
Ghosts Horatio Prim (Lou Costello) and Cuthbert (Bud Abbott) try to prove their innocence 200 years after being denounced as Revolutionary War traitors. Different (and good) movie for the funny duo. 1 User Review
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| | Anonymous 07/25/2009 | | I remember this movie from long ago. I do not believe Abbott is a ghost in this one. Lou is a ghost along with a female ghost that were hanged as traitors and condemned to stay on the parcel of land until they proved they were innocent. Very funny movie I have always loved watching it over and over. |
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1. Anna and the King of Siam (1946)
2. Anthony Adverse (1936)
3. Appointment in Berlin (1943)
4. The Black Cat (1941)
5. The Blue Bird (1940)
6. Brainwaves (1982)
7. The Cat and the Canary (1939)
8. Christmas Holiday (1944)
9. The Climax (1944)
10. Dramatic School (1938)
11. East Side, West Side (1949)
12. Echoes (1983)
aka: Living Nightmare
13. Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen (1942)
14. Enter Arsene Lupin (1944)
15. Follow the Boys (1944)
16. Gypsy Wildcat (1944)
17. The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944)
18. Isle of Forgotten Sins (1943)
aka: Monsoon
19. Juarez (1939)
20. The Letter (1940)
21. Life of Emile Zola (1937)
22. The Llano Kid (1940)
23. Lord Jeff (1938)
24. Maid of Salem (1937)
25. The Mark of Zorro (1940)
26. My Favorite Blonde (1942)
27. Never Say Die (1939)
28. A Night in Paradise (1946)
29. A Night to Remember (1943)
30. Paris Calling (1941)
31. Pirates of Monterey (1947)
32. Pleasantville (1976)
33. The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976)
34. Road to Rio (1947)
35. Seventh Heaven (1937)
36. Slaves (1969)
37. The Spider Woman (1944)
aka: Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman
38. The Spider Woman Strikes Back (1946)
39. Strange Death of Adolf Hitler (1943)
40. The Time of Their Lives (1946)
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