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A 12-year-old moves with his newly divorced father to Dad's hometown andconfronts the usual bullies, town curses, and rampaging by the undead in thisscreen adaptation of the R.L. Stine juvenile novel of the same name. Danny'sfirst introduction to Walker Falls is the police removal of his spooky doordecorations because Halloween is forbidden in this All Hallows' Eve answer toRead more

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PRETTY DECENT FAMILY HALLOWEEN FLICK
This was orginally a TV movie which plays every year on the Family Channel.As family Halloween movies go it's pretty decent.Not so scary that very young ones cannot watch but good enough that adults will enjoy it as well.
Family Halloween Film.
WHEN GOOD GHOULS GO BAD is a made for television movie, based upon a R.L. Stine story that first aired a few years ago on the Fox channel. The movie is narrated by and stars Christopher Lloyd as the patron of his small town. He has everyone call him Uncle Fred, including his own son and grandson and is a town legend. Uncle Fred used to own the chocolate factory that was the town's bread and butter. However, after a tragic accident involving a baking kiln that Uncle Fred had donated to the local high school, he shut the factory down and the town has been struggling ever since. However, with the accident at the school there also came a curse, that the town was to never celebrate Halloween again or else the young man who was baked alive would come back from the grave to destroy the town. Twenty years pass and Uncle Fred's son and grandson move back to town, wanting to celebrate Halloween. However, the townspeople won't have it. Then strange events start to happen and things go from strange to just plain bizarre. Zombies keep coming out of the ground. YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!
Curtis Danko made a statue so scary that it can burn somone's eyes out! So nobody dares to look underneath it. ... Read more

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How do I play The Royal LIfe ?
I love the movie! I just have one problem. I can't seem to be able to play The Royal Life from Disc 2? I put it in my computer and clicked on The Royal Life and it just gives me a summary of what it's about and then tells me to insert the dvd-rom. Does someone know how to do this?

Better than Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Cinderella is the film that saved the Walt Disney Company.
Walt Disney's Best Movie
Disney made its mark as a major studio in 1937 with its first full-length feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Ironically, given this early success, Snow White was their only hit movie for the next 13 years. World War II kicked the hell out of Disney's overseas markets. Even movies today regarded as classic Disney - Pinnochio, Bambi, Fantasia - lost money on initial release. Disney eked through by diversifying into training films for the US government, and the South American films that were part of FDR's Good Neighbor policy, etc. - stuff that made back its costs but not much more. By 1948, Disney was in dire financial straits. They had just enough money for one more movie. Walt Disney realized he needed a hit or his studio probably wouldn't survive, and it would have to be what they did best: a full-length animated feature film. Walt said to himself, "What we need is a movie about a girl in trouble. Audiences love that. They loved Snow White." That's what he wanted: a movie like Snow White, but even more so - more comedy, more drama, more magic, more music, more lovable characters. He chose as the basis of his company's Hail Mary pass arguably the most famous fairy tale in the world: Cinderella.
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The first of two features Walt Disney made at the behest of the OfficeofInter-American Affairs, Read more

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Good artistry...that's all you need from this.
Coming from the perspective of an animation student,I found these four shorts to be very entertaining.The old Disney animators were at it again with their sense of portraying brilliant draftsmanship coupled with colors and shapes purely from observation.A timeless trade lost in a capsule of a nostalgia (when patience and human touch were the very fabric of the animation industry).These films, thought not entertianing by contemporary standards, are still one of the best resources for the learning animator.With that said, I don't know what that leaves for the 4 year old.Perhaps, artistic inspiration could be rubbed off than mere children's entertainment and parental escape!!
Not as lively and exciting as The Three Cabelleros.
In this film, we see Disney and his fellow animators travel to Latin America.In this however, you feel as if you are watching the Discovery channel with a little Disney thrown in.The film is whimsical when you come across a Disney cartoon, but all the inbetween bits are lackluster and boring.If maybe you traveled along with Mickey or Goofy it may have been more exciting.Sorry.Good but lacks.

For True Disney Fans
This film was made during the war and Walt didn't have the money to turn out another full length animated film. To appease his fans, he made a film which is basically a trip with him and some of his best animators "South of the Border." The animators where then inspired to make several short animated films, which are all packaged together to make this feature. The back of the box says "Total Running Time: Approc. 75 Minuites." By total running time, the mean with special features. The film is only 45 minuites, and the bonus "South of the Border With Disney" was a television show he did. If you are not a Disney fan, I don't recomend this film to you, because it is not like the other well known animated films you are used to. The picture and sound are not very good. Disney didn't feel the need to tough it up because hardley anyone knew of it's existance. ... Read more

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great girly sappy movie
are you looking for a good sappy girly movie? then this is the one for you.I really it a lot.I watch it when I'm really sad about something or really happily sad about my love life.
Beautiful Scenery and Stellar Co-Stars Overshadow Tomei's Intended Audrey Wannabe Vehicle
Poor Marisa Tomei. She made the fastest career beeline from the B-List to the A-List and back to B thanks to this overly formulaic 1994 romantic comedy. Directed by Norman Jewison in a dreamy manner that seems designed to repeat the unexpected success of "Moonstruck", the movie is placed squarely on Tomei's shoulders to carry right after her questionable Oscar win for "My Cousin Vinny", and she is unfortunately given a petulant, irritating character to play here. As Faith Corvatch, she is a Pittsburgh schoolteacher about to get married when destiny seems to interject with the appearance of a man whose name, Damon Bradley, was predestined to be the identity of his soul mate. A chance phone call leads her impulsively to Italy where she leads a bumbling Clouseau-like chase to find him. Accompanied by her sensible but supportive sister Kate, she misses him in Venice but thinks she lands him in Rome. He instead turns out to be a designer show salesman named Peter Wright. Smitten with Faith, Wright decides to help her find Damon but only to make her realize that he is her soul mate.
"The truth is, you make your own destiny."
This is the story of a school teacher named Faith (Marisa Tomei) who believes in destiny and true love. When she was a young girl a Ouija board and a fortune teller separately came up with the name of Damon Bradley as her future soul-mate. 14 years later, days before her wedding, she's trying out her wedding gown when she picks up the phone and speaks with an unknown friend of her fiance's - by the name of Damon Bradley. Faith, still in her wedding gown, trails the name all the way to the airport and ends up flying to Italy. And into Robert Downey, Jr's arms.
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In 1915, during World War I, a doomed campaign was fought by the Allies against German-affiliated Turkish forces in the Dardanelles. (This devastating conflict was also the inspiration for the 1981 Australian film Read more

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semi factual film
I must say a lot of this film is pure fiction and is definitely sensationalised such as the young bride who has to have sex with the nearest man!
All the King's Men
Slightly stuffy and fractured, but that really doesn't change this PBS miniseries' special qualities at all. Maggie Smith is quite good in her role, and adds humour to it as well. The other cast members are excellent, with direction and writing at tops. Moving Drama
A very well made, moving drama about the Estate workers at Sandringham who volunteer during The First World war to fight the Turkish in Gallipoli. Unlike the Mel Gibson Film, this focuses purely on the British contingent at the Dardanelles and the suffering and losses involved.Read more

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This is another collection of Disney shorts set to music, but this time the formula works. That's predicated on the inherent strength of the individual pieces and almost all of them come through. Surprisingly, two American folk heroes, Johnny Appleseed and Pecos Bill, are the stars of this show, with rousty little tunes, humor, and compelling linear story lines (a rarity in most of these shorts). Even the shorts that are weak in one area, thematically or musically, make up for it in another. There's very little of the Disney animators attempting to be 1940s modern, thank goodness, and there's a sterling quality in the depth of the art work. A definite plus to an animation (or Disney) collection. Read more

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Roy Would NOT be Happy
we got no further in this DVD than "Pecos Bill", after discovering that they cut out part of the song. yes, it's a DVD called "Melody Time" and they cut out part of a song! I'd like to know the genius at Disney who thought this would be a good idea. needless the say, this item is being returned to Amazon.

Melody Time is good,in parts
Melody Time was made by Walt Disney in a time when he needed to make a movie.He was bogged down in helping the USA with information and propaganda during WWII, so he needed something at the end of the war to help raise funds.So Walt Disney takes a series of shorts that have a musical theme in common (and nothing else)pieces them together and creates a feature length movie made up of short sketches.Very similar to Fantasia with the exception that this movie is not even in the same league as Fantasia.
A great bedtime video
My son is a year and a half and this is his favorite video. It's beautifully done and has soft but catchy music. It's now become a part of bedtime - before my son jumps into bed, he points to the television for me to play this video. We love it so much, I'm on a search for more like it. ... Read more

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this video was ok.......
i am a big fan of Magnum P.I. Probably the biggest fan in the world. i have seen every episode at least twice and this episode of magnum isnt one of the ones i would have made available for vhs. Personally my favorite episodes have to do with when Magnum and Higgins are fighting over whatever. the episode "Paper War" is a really really good one. Magnum and Higgins are trapped in an elevator in it. Its really funny. MCA if you are listening why dont you guys have every single Magnum P.I. episode on vhs in a box set. Or even better DVD. Thanks.

Hot for Teacher
Murder 101 (a.k.a. Private Investigation 101) is one of the funniest, most tongue-in-cheek, episodes of Magnum ever.To pay some extra bills, Magnum has succumbed to teaching a second-rate college course on how to be a P.I....uh-um, that's Private Investigator. Anyway, the class is full of bumbling yokels and they look to Magnum to help them solve a case by going on a series of "class field trips".My favorite student was Danny, the stoned surfer dude who drove the group around in his van. Private Investigation 101
Magnum teaches a class about his line of work. A lady in the class thinks her fiance is cheating on her. He is only running out on his bank job. He has discovered some incriminating evidence there. Now his life is at stake.Magnum and his students try to help this couple. This show has a few twistsand turns especially at the end. Watch for the bar scene. This is thefunniest scene in any Magnum show. The locals can drink their weight inbeer. One huge drunk in particular zeros in on Magnum's round buying. Heproceeds to swill six or seven bottles of beer in succession. MCA shouldrelease all the Magnum, P.I. shows on either vhs or dvd. ... Read more

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Still worth a look....
I last saw this movie when it was in the theaters back in 1984. As I predicted, I forgot most of it, so it was kind of nice to catch up and watch it again. Funny, it didn't seem as entertaining the second time around, but it's still worth a look.

I love this movie!
I'm so glad to see this film is out on DVD. Brings back great memories of when I saw it in the middle of January in Chicago while staying there for a week with the folks on a business trip.I just had to see this film after Roger Ebert tore it apart during his film review segment on the nightly news.I think I was only about 14 years old when I caught a matinee showing in a downtown Chicago theater.The film itself is nothing but alot of fun to watch and Brent Huff is a total hottie!Lots of nudity, weird bondage outfits and basically a soft porn version of "Raiders of the Lost Ark."The musical score during the opening and closing credits is nice but the dialogue is badly dubbed. The acting is horrible and the actress that plays the Queen has got to be seen to be believed!Total cheeseball of a movie, but loads of fun to watch if you're just in the mood to have a good time.Everyone that I know that has seen this film has loved it. (except for Roger Ebert)

Potentially very hot, but sucked instead!
I generally like some of these French-comic-books-turned-into-movies because they're usually pretty erotic.Jane Fonda's role in Barbarella comes to mind.This Gwendoline series definitely had the POTENTIAL what with the scantily-clad women-in-bondage theme and the scenes involving Gwendoline with her dominant girlfriend.
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WELCOME TO AMERICA ONLY IT GETS MUCH MUCH WORSE
Road film for the eighties: From Bing and Bob in the forties to Dennis and Peter in the sixties and now this in the eighties. Welcome to America. Where is the wonder? Where is the song?
How Strange That Anyone Could Endure It
The most astonishing thing about this film - stranger than paradise or hell could ever be - is that anyone let Jarmusch make another film after it wrapped. (That it won Best First Feature at Cannes in 1984 shakes one's faith in a rational universe.)
stranger than anything
A Hungarian girl goes to visit her cousin who lives in the ugliest apartment in the ugliest part of New York City; then the cousin and his best friend go to visit the Hungarian girl who now lives in the ugliest house in the ugliest part of Cleveland; then all three of them take a road trip and end up at the ugliest hotel in the ugliest part of Florida.Along the way nothing happens, and then it happens again.A great film, and an important one too, that I thoroughly enjoyed watching. ... Read more

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CORNY BUT FUN
Joan is a riverboat queen who runs her casino with the aid of political boss Wayne. I saw this movie years ago in California and thought it was corny but cute. Certain scenes are rather ludicrous such as the raven in the window foretelling evil ahead and the malevolent presence of Blanche Yurka as Julia Alderson lingers in the memory for her campy playing. Yurka tries to poison Blondell when she tries marrying into the Alderson clan, but alas the potion is drank by a family member and guess who is charged? There are several musical numbers such as Blondell singing "Up in a Balloon" . A harmless way to while away an hour.

AN OKAY FILM
If you don't expect anything amazing, you'll enjoy this film. It'swell-intentioned and could have been more, but it just doesn't have thatmagical chemistry that makes for a great movie. The plot is a bit hokey andpredictable, but it wasn't trying to be anything more than that in thefirst place. Not a must-see, but a nice southern romance full of intriguetype of movie to sit back and relax with. ... Read more

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aight
movie is split in 5 sections/cab rides... one in la, one in ny, one in france, etc.
Quite possibly one of the best American films of the 1990s
As with many of Jarmusch's films (Coffee & Cigarettes, Ghost Dog, Down by Law, Ghost Dog, etc.), Night on Earth is simultaneously endearing and mindboggling.The film centers around five short cab rides in five international cities in a single night.From a lurid confession in a Roman cab (with Roberto Begnini) to an impromptu audition in LA (with Gena Rowlands and Winona Ryder) to a hysterical ride through New York with a retired East German clown (Armin Mueller-Stahl), this film will keep you laughing, crying, and thinking so deeply, that all you want to do is rewind and watch this night again (yes, rewind, because alas... it is not available on DVD!!!) ... Read more

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Shaquille O'Neal plays a relatively recent DC Comics hero named Steel, an Army weapons engineer who dons a steel suit and does battle with various bad buys, including a weapons dealer (Judd Nelson) whose market is criminals. Sooner or later, somebody had to give Shaq the opportunity to finally prove he doesn't belong in movies, and this silly 1997 action movie--in which O'Neal could not possibly look more wooden--does the trick. Read more

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The songs are probably the best thing about this film.
I've not seen the film, but I dig the hip hop and soul soundtrack. I suggest for others to seperate the songs from the film and write accurate reviews about this product.

Unspeakably awful.
First of all, I apologise for reviewing a... gnnn, can't bring myself to even write it but.. must... a VHS version of this film. Ughh. Video - what WERE we thinking?But I have to - because Steel has never been released on DVD (I collect comic book movies and TV shows on DVD, so I had to buy a copy of this on DVD). And you know what? I would bet my entire Spider-Man collection that it'll never see the light on DVD either. Whoever owns the rights to this is probably keeping it quiet through sheer embarrassment.
Ugh...
I just finished watching this abysmal excuse for a movie on TV with my kid.All I can say is that I enjoy my kid's company, so the 2-plus hours spent on "Steel" was not a complete waste of time, but no thanks to this turkey.
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1950s Western Fun
This is very loosely adapted from The Taming Of The Screw, but only the characters and a two line plot summary survive. Apart from that, it's quite an original piece of writing from Adele Huffington (surely a pseudoym!), Flaming Readhead Rhonda Fleming looks great in Cine Color, and makes us laugh too. A good-looking guy in a white(ish) hat, former Wild Bill Hickock star Guy Madison slips easily into the role of wrongly accused, wrongly condemned, and fraudulently married man. His casual smile brings a confidence to the role that reminds us this is foremost a comedy and that we ought not to be too worried that our hero will end up hanged. But the villains are not so clear cut. fur trader Parnell is just an unscrupulous businessman and never tried to get anyone killed. The hired gun is neither good nor bad, more amoral, but this presents an interesting potential for him to either help or hinder the hero at the end of the movie. There's western clich�s all through the film, the camp fire harmonica, the Indians smoking um pipe of peace. There are also a few bits of carelessness. The wagon train keeps stopping so they can film the stopped scenes in a park, and how does Cheyenne fit her bed, a desk, and all her fabulous dresses into that tiny wagon? But it's not fair to judge it by today's expectations. This is a simple comedy western, and on that basis, it is a lot of fun.

Not what it seems
The picture on the box, with a beautiful woman sprawled in the dust as a man with a bullwhip towers over her, makes this look like a sex 'n' sadism flick. Nothing could be further from the truth. This reissue of a 1956 Allied Artists movie is almost a comedy. Rhonda Fleming (in the movie, she's the one who wields the whip) needs a temporary husband for legal reasons, and gets jailbird Guy Madison (TV's "Wild Bill Hickok"), who is scheduled to hang, to marry her. But Madison has been framed, breaks jail to clear himself, and ends up reunited with his new wife, much to her distress -- for a while, that is. This picture is no world-beater but it's kind of fun. Gaunt deep-voiced James Griffith also scores as an enigmatic gunman hired to get Madison until he, too, changes sides. ... Read more

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Editorial Review

Now here is a movie that's practically perfect for DVD. Shot over many years with eccentric actors, Jim Jarmusch's collection of black-and-white vignettes is as uneven as a collection of music videos (without songs). Even with the dull spots and the drop-dead-hip ambiance, there's something touching about this parade of frazzled people holding on to their coffee and cigarettes like life rafts--especially in the final sequence with Taylor Mead. There are some severely misconceived pieces, but the best are a treat:Alfred Molina and Steve Coogan in a hilarious Hollywood encounter, Tom Waits and Iggy Pop getting off on the wrong foot in a funky diner, and Cate Blanchett doing a dual role as herself and a jealous cousin. Bill Murray can't save one underwritten piece, but Jack and Meg White are amusing in an absurdist blackout. Use the Scene Selection menu, and revel in the fetishizing of java and butts. Read more

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Uneventful
This movie is a compilation of short movies of singular and plural people hanging around in cafes and diners over simply cigarettes and coffee.Some movies are duds but some of them are totally brilliant and funny.Alfred Molina and Steve Coogan conversation, entitled "Cousins?", Cate Blanchett playing herself and her cousin in "Cousin", the Whites from the White Stripes are some of the gems that you can find in here.It's really unique to have singers partaking in this project such as Iggy Pop, Tom Waite, Wu-Tang Clan, White Stripes.Bizzare, uneventful and something to be enjoyed in DVD.No extras.Commendable watching.

Original... BUT...
DON"T WATCH IF YOU"RE TRYING to QUIT SMOKING.This is one film where the pleasure of smoking is made only too real.
great fun
This is great fun and an ideal way to spend an hour or so if you are a fan of the director or film-making in general.An array of great personalities appear on screen in a series of witty conversations full of in jokes and memorable lines.It is just a bit of fun though, nothing too serious and perhaps not a movie you would return to with any regularity.
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COBURN'S FINAL SHOT
AMERICAN GUN offers the marvelous actor James Coburn in his last screen role.Director Alan Jacobs captures a surreaslistic atmosphere as he explores the trajectory of a gun that was used in the killing of Coburn's daughter (a pre-Sideways Virginia Madsen).Jacobs cleverly dispenses clues as to this gun's path, but the viewer is caught up in the tragic dilemma of Coburn, who wants to know how this gun reached the point of where it resulted in his daughter's death.Coburn is excellent in his performance, as is Masden in her understated delivery.Barbara Bain (Mission Impossible's Cinnamon Carter) adds some level headed credibility in the role of Coburn's wife, and Alexandra Holden is very good as Masden's wayward daughter.
American Gun is more than just a few plot twists....
Just when I think I have seen all the films that could possibly leave me vulnerable, I find this under-rated and powerful DVD. I watched this on Showtime the other evening and it left me in that "wow" fog a good movie can leave behind.
Moral Discussion With Plenty of Complexity
_American Gun_ seems to set people off in two distinct directions: either you love it's subtle anti-firearms message or you run screaming for the hills and feel like the movie falls apart in the last fifteen minutes.Regardless of my own political/moral views concerning guns, I was pulled into this film by two aspects.First, the story was a fresh one and did not (for most of the film) descend into a well-traveled plot.The idea of tracing a gun's history, letting the owner's lives and experiences tell the story of self-defense and homicide, is an original one that made the movie fresh and exciting.This device, the gun, also provided a source for constant change in the movie and kept the movie afloat on its current.The second thing that pulled me in is the powerful final performance of James Coburn, an actor who always succeeds at playing his parts with style, grace, and a deft control of the character.Coburn manages to communicate the pain of a man who loses his daughter to an act of gun violence.His ability to remain strong, shutting out those around him while privately grieving for his daughter, honestly connects up to my experiences of strong men of the old guard.James Coburn was a wonderful actor and _American Gun_ is a fine film to cap one's career.
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Terrific entertainment
(4.5/5 stars)This is a fantasy film set during World War II, with the Nazis chasing jet-propelled backpack technology that will enable their airmen to land in enemy territory. There is even a mock Nazi propaganda film to illustrate the awesome power of this new weapon. In fact, the film really blurs fantasy with reality, with appearances by W.C. Fields and Cab Calloway, among others. Timothy Dalton plays Neville Sinclair, an actor whose life bears an uncanny resemblance to that of Errol Flynn's. Fiction mixed with reality can be amusing because it offers an imaginative alternative to straight fiction and non-fiction. On the other hand, "The Da Vinci Code," "JFK" and the current Bush administration have all proven mixing fantasy and reality can produce downright ugly results. There is some very good action as The Rocketeer, played by the dashing and handsome Bill Campbell, eludes the Nazis and attempts to foil their plot. Jennifer Connelly is radiant as his love interest, Jenny Blake. This is the type of movie where gray areas do not exist; everything is either black or white, good or bad. Along with excellent sets, wardrobes, styles, etc., this aids the film in establishing its nostalgic, 1940s feel. This is a very fun movie for most of the family. Even though there is little objectionable material, some themes might be better suited for ages ten and up.

Corny, clunky, a deserved turkey of the early 90s.
The Rocketeer is the cinematic version of all the faux-Deco buildings that have been erected in recent years around Los Angeles, particularly the Miracle Mile area. It's wafer-thin nostalgia masks a chintzy story that can't stand on its own two feet.
In many ways, what "Raiders" should have been...
There's a great deal more attention to period detail in "The Rocketeer" -- the clothing, hair styles on men, even the language used, all are more reminiscent of 1930's serials than anything Spielberg did. Not an indictment of Spielberg's work, just a partial explanation for why I enjoyed "The Rocketeer" so much. It's a love letter to Hollywood and to early aviation, and if you actually know a little about these two subjects the movie makes a lot more sense.
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