Proud & Damned

Starring:Chuck Connors, Aron Kincaid, Cesar Romero, JosÃ© Greco, Smokey Roberds, Henry Capps, Peter Ford, Andres Marquis, Conrad Parham, Maria Grimm, Nana Lorca, Anita Quinn, Ãlvaro Ruiz, Pacheco (II), Ignacio GÃ³mez, Ernesto Uribe, Rey VÃ¡squez, Bernardo Herrera, Los Cabaveras de Villa de Layna
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Studio: Good Times Video
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Proud
All America Should Be Proud
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Great film and performance by Ossie Davis in his last role

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Starring: Edward O'Blenis Jr. , Stephen Rea , Ossie Davis , Marcus Chait , and Eric LaRay Harvey
Director: Mary Pat Kelly
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ASIN: B000EWBKI0
Release Date: 2006-05-09

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Based on the true and heroic story of the USS Mason, a Navy battleship manned by an African-American crew during WWII, when segregation was still enforced. Based on the book by Mary Pat Kelly.

Customer Reviews:

Proud.......2007-06-27

This is an amazing story of several young African American men who help gain recognition to the older African American men who served on a Naval vessel who did remarkable voyages to help their country.

All America Should Be Proud.......2006-06-26

This is one of the best movies about World War 2 I have seen. It is a film that makes me very Proud to be a part of this great country. It is the story of a group of African Americans who fought for their country and fought against prejudice in the land of immigrants. It is so unfortunate that it took the United States Navy so long to recognize the valor and courage of these young men. I would recommend this movie anyone who is interested in the History of the our Great Nation, the United States of America.

A Little Treasure.......2006-06-26

Outstanding little film! Ossie Davis is loveable as Lorenzo DeFau, and as narrator, draws us right into the story of the crew of the USS Mason. It is the true story of how the first all-African American crew overcame prejudice and adversity while risking their lives for this country during World War II. The film tells the story very well, and is interspersed with actual black and white footage of the original USS Mason crew. The cinematography is exceptional, especially the scenes shot in Derry, Ireland. This is Tommy Hilfiger's first motion picture effort from his THEntertainment production company. Note there are several cameos throughout the film, including Tommy and Ally Hilfiger, Nobel Peace winner John Hume, and the three main characters who are still living: Lorenzo DeFau, Gordon Buchanan, and James Graham. It is a tribute and a wonderful, uplifting family film. I think everyone should see it!

True Story of a little ship that could.......2006-05-23

First of all, the Editorial comments description needs to be corrected - the Mason was not a Battleship, it was a Destroyer Escort.
We stumbled on this movie by accident and were interested because my father had served on a DE in WWII. It was a wonderfully told story of a truth of WWII that many have never heard about. I was educated by this movie - and found it to be for the most part well acted & also entertaining.

Great film and performance by Ossie Davis in his last role.......2006-05-19

Great story and storytelling about the African American service men in WWII. Finally someone has decided to show the true things they had to overcome and resistance along the way. Great movie, especially for teachers in the classroom.

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the true story
Goy-Ak-la An American Hero
GERONIMO THE BARBARIAN MEETS DIRTY HARRY
Don't forget Tom Horn... Geronimo wouldn't have.
Great Movie

Geronimo - An American Legend
Starring: Jason Patric , Gene Hackman , Robert Duvall , Wes Studi , and Matt Damon
Director: Walter Hill
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Walter Hill's revisionist take on the American cavalry's campaign to capture renegade Chiricahua Apache warrior Geronimo (Wes Studi) is, like Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, a dark tale that both celebrates and critiques myths of the American West. Despite its title, Geronimo is really about the American cavalry officers who undertake the responsibility of recapturing the warrior, in particular the young narrator Lt. Charles Gatewood (Jason Patric), a Civil War hero who respects the great Geronimo and brokers a treaty with the Chiricahua, only to see it collapse when the army kills the tribal medicine man. Gene Hackman plays Gen. George Crook, the proud but sympathetic officer charged with bringing in the renegades who take to hills after the killing. Robert Duvall, the tough, racist army scout and Indian fighter Charlie Sieber, practically steals the picture with his cagey, underplayed performance. More complex and complicated than most Westerns, this is a Walter Hill film through and through: lean, ironic, beautiful to look at (it was shot on location against the astounding landscape of southeastern Utah), and driven by a wonderful Ry Cooder score. Don't confuse this with the 1993 TNT cable film by the same name; it confounded many viewers at the time of its release and may have been at least partially responsible for its box-office disappointment. --Sean Axmaker

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the true story.......2007-05-13

A very good historial movie. It has the Indians side of the story, which is refreshing to see. A great action movie that will hold your attention.

Goy-Ak-la An American Hero.......2007-04-27

Those who gave this movie low marks are neither as bright nor knowledgeable as they would have you believe. True - the movie was not historically accurate because it is a MOVIE. The public does not go to the theater to watch documentaries.

Who really knows the whole truth? If you desire more information about Geronimo, (Goy-Ak-la was his real name), I strongly suggest that you read the books; Geronimo, In His Own Words and The Truth About Geronimo, written by Bitton Davis. Davis was an Indian scout leader and knew most of the people highlighted in the MOVIE. He was not fond of Geronimo, but wrote a very interesting account of his attempts to capture the so-called renegade. The victors in any clash of cultures, all to often, write the history. My studies of Native Americans have convinced me that the original inhabitants of this country usually provide the most reliable accounts of these clashes.

About the movie: I agree with those who felt that the action scenes were well done and the scenery was breathtaking. The directing and acting was very good, especially Wes Studi and Robert Duvall. The movie, while it may not be historically accurate, gave the audience an insight into the issues and adventures of the main characters. This movie should be in the libraries of anyone who loves a good western or action movie, even those who appreciate a history lesson every now and then.

GERONIMO THE BARBARIAN MEETS DIRTY HARRY .......2007-04-09

A movie never comes from nowhere. John Milius, who wrote GERONIMO - AN AMERICAN LEGEND, had already written in 1993, among others, the screenplays of Dirty Harry, Jeremiah Johnson, Apocalypse Now and Conan the Barbarian, nothing less. He's one of the most influential authors of the American film production of the last thirty years. The John Milius hero is a rebel who tries to impose his own law or his own ideas on the society he has to cope with. Who else could have dared to glue the word legend with the figure of Geronimo, the Indian terrorist in essence ?

Now, the historical accuracy of the events described in Walter Hill's GERONIMO - AN AMERICAN LEGEND is not so important, Hill and Milius's purpose was not to present a documentary film about one of the last Indian rebellions than to make us think about the motives that actuated 50 Chiricahuas warriors to defy 5'000 U.S. cavalry soldiers. Everybody is entitled to have his own opinion about the events pictured in the Walter Hill movie but we should nonetheless take the time to think about certain issues raised by Geronimo (the movie character, of course) : Why does the White Man need so much space ? If the White Men hadn't been so many, would they have still had the right to claim the Indian territories ? These questions need to be asked and, let's hope so, there always will be a John Milius to irritate us with them.

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Don't forget Tom Horn... Geronimo wouldn't have........2007-04-08

Geronimo was a renegade Chiricahua Apache warrior but not the tribal leader. He was in fact a war chief and medicine man with an uncanny ability to elude the US Cavalry. This movie might be made well but I'll never know because I won't watch any film so historically inaccurate. The cast includes all the major characters of this very real part of American history except the most important one other than Geronimo himself. Tom Horn. Trained by Al Sieber as a civilian scout and known as "Talking Boy" to the Chiricahua Apaches because he spoke their language better than any white man ever did, including Al Sieber whom he replaced as Chief Civilian Scout when Sieber retired. Tom Horn was the only man able to track Geronimo and twice talked the great Chiricahua Apache warrior into surrendering himself to the US Military authorities. I suggest that anyone interested in this part of American history should read Life of Tom Horn: Government Scout and Interpreter by Tom Horn. It's not great literature but it was written by the man himself. A man that Geronimo greatly respected and many white historians seem to want history to forget. Life of Tom Horn, Government Scout and Interpreter

Great Movie.......2007-04-01

I think this was a great movie telling a story of what happen to a great war chief Geronimo. I think what the government did to the indians was very bad. I wish they would make a sequel of what happen to Lt.Gatewood after he was transfered.

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Wonderful
Swtchback

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Starring: Claudia Stedelin , Ian Blake Nelson , Brent Hinkley , R. Lee Ermey , and Walton Goggins
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This film has the feel of a script that's been resurrected by a writer given the chance to direct his own movie. So it was with writer Jeb Stuart (Die Hard) and this film, his directing debut. The plotting is creaky and predictable in this story of an FBI agent (Quaid) relentlessly pursuing a serial killer (Glover) who, in an effort to intimidate the lawman, kidnaps the agent's child. The action set-pieces show up like clockwork, as this rogue cop battles his own agency in an effort to find his child. Quaid is grim and lifeless, so the film's only sparks are given off by Glover, in a wonderfully shaded performance that keeps you guessing whether he is, in fact, the bad guy after all. --Marshall Fine

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Sitchback.......2007-06-09

Es una pelicula muy interesante que la recomiendo personalmente para aquellos personas amantes de una buena ficcòn y acciòn dentro de un drama elaborado muy meticulamosamente y que les guste el misticismo

Great thriller.......2007-01-31

An FBI agent hot on the trail of a serial killer pays a high price when the murderer makes it a personal game. Dennis Quaid plays agent Frank LaCrosse, a man taken off the case when the killer kidnaps his young son. Frank refuses to give up the chase to find the man who stole his child. The killer leaves a trail of blood and some subtle clues along the way, but Frank will still need the help of a veteran, small town sheriff if he hopes to get his son back alive. The film was scattered with enough red herrings to keep the plot interesting, though some of the roles hinted at cliches. However, the dialogue clipped along and the action scenes kept it moving. Certainly not a 'yawner'.

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Male bonding.......2005-12-08

I enjoy movies with male bonding or female bonding. A good example of the former is Rio Bravo, and the latter Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. This movie is generally overlooked from this perspective. I personally liked the relationship between the sheriff and Quaid, and in a different way that between Glover and the hitchhiker. It has my vote as one of the best movies of this type in recent years. I cannot understand how anyone can call its plot "predictable" -- I thought Quaid might get Glover in the end but did not anticipate the final scene, which was made all the more impressive by the absence of dialogue.

Wonderful.......2005-09-08

I loved this movie. It was refreshing to see Danny Glover as a bad guy again. And while the movie can sometimes fall into predictable lines, that does not detract from the appeal. Quaid as a hardened FBI agent is casting against type and Jared Leto as the unspecting friend of Glover leads to wonderful if not suprising twists. While not totally orginal it is still a good way to spend two hours.

Swtchback.......2005-08-30

Danny Glover is believeable (as always) in this mystery/thriller. Unique role/ unique screenplay.

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A solid Western
pretty good except a bit too staging
"Ryan...Mayo...Hunter...Middleton ~ The Proud Ones (1956)"
It's a good western. Buy it!

The Proud Ones
Starring: Robert Ryan , Virginia Mayo , Jeffrey Hunter , Robert Middleton , and Walter Brennan
Director: Robert D. Webb
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The main draw (and quick draw) of this 1956 Western is the marvelous presence of Robert Ryan in the lead role. This underappreciated actor plays a Kansas marshal with a history of perceived cowardice in his past. Everything comes to a head in a single week: a cattle drive ends in town, bringing shootin' and hollerin'; Ryan's nemesis, a casino-runner played by veteran bad guy Robert Middleton, arrives to soak the suckers; and young hotshot Jeffrey Hunter, whose father was killed by Ryan, arrives with revenge on his mind. Oh, and Ryan himself begins to suffer from blinding headaches. Despite the crowded plot, the results are Fifties Western boilerplate, with few distinguishing features beyond the cast. But the supporting ranks are crowded with essential horse-saga actors: Walter Brennan, Arthur O'Connell, Rodolfo Acosta, and of course the bearded, lizard-eyed Middleton. Virginia Mayo plays Ryan's hotel-keeper ladyfriend. Ace cinematographer Lucien Ballard gets a few good outdoor CinemaScope set-ups into the generally backlot feel of the thing. But the reason to see the film is lanky Robert Ryan, whose compelling mix of neurosis, gentleness, and fury is on full display here. --Robert Horton

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When a flood of lawless gunmen invades his once peaceful town, Marshal Cass Silver (Ryan) knows it?s up to him to force them out. But the only chance he might have is to gain the help of a gunslinger named Thad (Hunter), who wrongly believes the Marshal is responsible for his father?s death. To save the town, Silver will have to earn the aid, and trust, of a man sworn to send him to his grave!

Customer Reviews:

Hope Gonzales.......2007-02-15

My husband had been looking for this movie for over 10 years, we looked for it everywhere that videos are sold. We finally found it on Amazon.Com
I could not imagine why he would want to see this old movie, but after watching the move with him, I can honestly tell you that it is one of the best westerns I have seen. I am so excited that I was able to find it and it was a joy to watch. I sincerely recommend it for anyone that likes westerns young and old.

A solid Western.......2006-11-06

Robert Middleton was a big brutish character actor... We have seen him in "The Silver Chalice" opposite Paul Newman, in "Friendly Persuasion" opposite Gary Cooper, and in "Love Me Tender" with Elvis Presley...

In "The Proud Ones", he is at his best as the smooth-faced and smooth-spoken saloon owner who tries to have the lawman relieved of his job in order for the town to be wide open for wild business...

Middleton makes a considerable impression as Honest John Barrett, distinctive in his dishonesty and insincere manners... He is a thief ready for anything in order to control his lucrative interests, hiring cheap crooks like George Mathews (Dillon) who results a fraud according to his rules... We see him hiring dangerous gunmen willing to slay at any time like Chico (Rodolfo Acosta), who swears to the Marshal that he will kill him one day...

The film arouses profound suspicion that we are pushed to ask ourselves why a suspicious man like the Marshal had to shoot someone apparently unarmed from behind and can we justify his action?! ¿Is he, by any chance, a 'trigger-happy' murderer?

Jeffrey Hunter performs the mistaken cowboy involved in a sinful act to avenge his father's death with the wrong man... He never believes the rectitude of the Marshal who has a questionable past... Hunter accuses him of killing his father... 'It was either him or me', exclaims Ryan, 'but I never shot an unarmed man in my life.'

The climax of the film proves clearly and openly the whole truth to the tormented young man when he confronts Barrett in a showdown... The film wakes up our attention in its development when we discover that the proud Marshall is losing the power of seeing, a serious problem considered suicidal for a lawman who has powerful enemies...

With the lovely Virginia Mayo, the good jailer Brennan and the timid O'Connell, "The Proud Ones" is a solid Western, which remembers me a similar one, "The Lonely Man" with Jack Palance and Anthony Perkins...

pretty good except a bit too staging.......2006-09-15

the costumes were a bit too new and too fancy, the paint on the settings looked too new and too clean. a typical western storyline appeared maybe thousand times already but a pretty good one. the indoor lightings for all the scenes were too bright, strong and lack of depth, like watching a play on a stage. but still, a very good one.

"Ryan...Mayo...Hunter...Middleton ~ The Proud Ones (1956)".......2006-08-13

20th Century Fox Home Entertainment present "THE PROUD ONES" (1956) (94 mins Color), under director Robert Webb, produced by Robert L. Jacks, book author Verne Athanas, screenplay by Edmund H. North, Edward North and Joseph Petracca, musical direction by Lionel Newman . . . . .cast includes Robert Ryan (Marshal Cass Silver), Virginia Mayo (Sally), Jeffrey Hunter (Thad Anderson), Robert Middleton (Honest John Barrett), Walter Brennan (Jake, Jailer), Arthur O'Connell (Jim Dexter, Deputy), Rodopho (Rudy) Acosta (Chico), George Mathews (Dillon, Saloon Manager), Fay Roope (Markham), Edward Platt (Dr. Barlow), Whit Bissell (Mr. Bolton), Paul E. Burns (Billy Smith, Town Drunk), Richard Deacon (Barber), I. Stanford Jolley (Crooked Card Player), , , , ,our story has Robert Middleton making a lot of trouble for our hero Robert Ryan who is the Marshal of a small Kansas town...more trouble is coming when the trail herd cowboys arrive to gamble and possibly kill Ryan...can he depend upon Jeffrey Hunter for help or even the girl Virginia Mayo who knows Ryan is losing his sight and could be killed not caring...this builds to a climatic end with Jeffrey Hunter questioning if he should come to the aid of Ryan who killed his father years ago...don't touch that dial, you're about to find out!

Specal footnote, actor Robert Ryan (born Robert Bushnell Ryan on November 11, 1909, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor, imposing, ruggedly handsome lead who made his film debut in "Golden Gloves" (1940) and signed with RKO two years later...Ryan hit his stride in the late 1940s playing a string of psychopathic or hard-boiled types, the role that first put him on the map was as the anti-semitic killer in Edward Dmytryk's film-noir "Crossfire" (1947), and the over-the-hill pug in the classic boxing drama, "The Set-Up" (1949), directed by Robert Wise (which Ryan regarded as his favorite of all of his films) was practically dumped onto the market by RKO, though the studio soon found itself with an unexpected success when the film received good reviews, it was entered in the Cannes Film Festival, and it won the Best Picture award in the British Academy Award competition...from then on Ryan's speciality was tough/tender roles, finding particular expression in the films of celebrated directors such as Nicholas Ray, Robert Wise and Sam Fuller...on Ray's "On Dangerous Ground" (1951) he portrayed a burnt-out violent city-cop finding redemption whilst solving a rural murder. . other important films were Anthony Mann's western "The Naked Spur" (1953), Sam Fuller's uproarious Japanese set gangland thriller "House of Bamboo" (1955), "Bad Day at Black Rock" (1955), and the socially conscious heist-movie "Odds Against Tomorrow" (1959). He also appeared in several all-star war films, including "The Longest Day" (1962) and "Battle of the Bulge" (1965)...in his latter years, Ryan continued playing key roles in major films, most notable of these were "The Professionals" (1966), "The Dirty Dozen" (1967), and Sam Peckinpah's highly influential brutal western "The Wild Bunch" (1969), Ryan was memorable as William Holden's buddy-turned-nemesis, then came "Lawman" (1971), "The Iceman Cometh" (1973)...he married Jessica Cadwalader on March 11, 1939, and they remained married until her death from cancer in 1972; they had 3 children, Ryan died from lung cancer in New York City the following year at the age of 63.

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1. Robert Ryan (aka: Robert Bushnell Ryan)
Birth Date: 11/11/1909 - Chicago, Illinois
Died: 7/11/1973 - New York, New York
2. Virginia Mayo (aka: Virginia Clara Jones)
Birth Date: 11/30/1920 - St. Louis, Missouri
Died: 1/17/2005 - Thousand Oaks, California
3. Jeffrey Hunter (aka: Henry Herman McKinnies Jr)
Birth Date: 11/25/1926 - New Orleans, Louisiana
Died: 5/27/1969 - Los Angeles, California
4. Robert Middleton (aka: Samuel Messer)
Birth Date: 5/13/1911 - Cincinnati, Ohio
Died: 6/14/1977 - Hollywood, California
5. Robert D. Webb (Director)
Birth Date: 1/08/1903 - Kentucky
Died: 4/18/1990 - Orange County, California

Want to thank 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment for releasing "The Proud Ones" (1956), the digital transfere with a clean, clear and crisp print...looking forward to more high quality releases from the vintage era of the '40s & '50s...order your copy now from Amazon or 20th Century Fox Entertainment where there are plenty of copies available, stay tuned onceagain for top notch wonderful character actors of the cinema brought back so many wonderful memories of the times when film makers cared about you who purchased a ticket and came back for more...just the way we like 'em.

Total Time: 94 mins on DVD ~ 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment #2233901 ~ (5/23/2006)

It's a good western. Buy it!.......2006-07-30

First of all, the director Mr. Robert D. Webb was quite at home with westerns so he delivers the job. ("White Feather" in DVD is still one of my unfulfilled dreams!). As for Robert Ryan (he does great here!) and Mayo (a girl with a past!) they're the perfect match for a romantic and mature affair.
Well, since this one was released in 1956, one can't avoid to notice some "coincidences" or maybe "clichés" regarding other famous western movies:
1. From "High Noon" (1952) - consider the main idea - a marshall alone to face hired killers. Arthur O'Conell/Lloyd Brigdes play similar roles, denying help at first but reconsidering later. Remember that a kid was the first and only to offer help to Cooper/ Will Kane.
2. And what to say about Howard Hawks' "Rio Bravo" (1959). The same conflict. The only help comes from an ex-bad girl in a hotel (Feathers/Angie Dicknson), the jail keeper - the same and good old Walter Brennan and the extra hired helper, Colorado (Ricky Nelson) who also brings girl's eyecandy - as Jeffrey Hunter does - they even dress alike. Only Jeff was more familiar to the gender.
About Jeffrey Hunter, being a fan, I've watched many of his movies and I think he didn't do so well while playing such a divided character as Thad Anderson. When he grabs Mayo at the hotel room, he's totally not himself and very far from the gentlemen type, unreproachable person he was (and that won him the part of Christ in KOK). He pushed too much and that particular scene results so unnatural. On the other hand, there's no doubt that his unic presence on screen adds a plus to this - at the time - B Western. Nowadays, however, this might be one of the best re-releases from the last two or three years.
3. In Rio Bravo the bad guy's name was Burdett and here we have a saloon owner named Barrett.
4. Let's not forget the city drunks Paul E. Burns/ Dean Martin. If you compare you'll find more resemblances. But the point is that "The Proud Ones" is from 1956 while "Rio Bravo" was a release from 1959.
Oh, yeah, someone said Richard Widmark and Jeff had already played the same roles or similar characters in "The Red Skies Of Montana" (1952).
To sum up, who cares about originals when we have all these amazing actors, CINEMASCOPE and great colors to amuse us. Buy all those DVDs, watch as many times as you can and enjoy yourselves while you find out which one was the best performance.
Still to say: there isn't a single bat, spider, mummy, +fast or +whatever to beat films like the mentioned above. Not even with all the gd d"effects" in the world!

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Blast from the Past
DVD purchase, Waterbabies
Not worth the money
A movie from my childhood
A good old memory from Kid

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Starring: James Mason , Bernard Cribbins , Billie Whitelaw , Joan Greenwood , and David Tomlinson
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What happens when a young boy named Tom, apprenticed as a chimney sweep, gets framed for theft in 1850s England? Even though a young girl named Ellie knows the real thieves' identities and tries to clear Tom's name, Tom's desperate escape run lands him right in the middle of Dead Man's Pool. Assumed to have met certain death, Tom gets sucked into a magical underwater world. Tom befriends the creatures he meets beneath the sea, and they accompany him on a journey to the land of Water Babies, where he intends to ask the all-powerful Cracken to help him return to the world above the water. Tom encounters many difficulties along the way, but he eventually arrives in the world of the Water Babies, only to watch an evil shark and eel capture his new friends. Cracken forces Tom to choose between his own return to the world and the freedom of the Water Babies. Tom wisely chooses the Water Babies' freedom, winning his own return in the process. Life is far from idyllic when Tom returns to land, but eventually the quick-thinking boy clears his name, traps the real thieves, and wins a place in Ellie's affluent family. Many adults possess fond memories of seeing this 1978 movie as children. The land portions of this 85-minute musical feature live-action footage, while the water sequence is fully animated. To a fresh, modern audience, the abrupt change from one format to the other is somewhat disconcerting, as is the choppy, older animation style. The story, based on the classic children's book of the same name by Charles Kingsley, is an intriguing look at both Victorian culture and the fantasy world. (Ages 4-8) --Tami Horiuchi

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Dive beneath the wavesand beyond your wildest dreamsto an underwater playground overflowing with adventure! Featuring a magical mix of live action and animation, The Water Babies is the most fun you'll have aboveand belowsea level! When 12-year-old Tom jumps into a swirling stream, he is suddenly swept away to a fantastical place filled with music, excitement and colorful characters. Frolicking with the fish, singing with the squid and cavorting with the crabs, Tom's as happy as a clam until he grows lonesome for his friends back home. To get to solid ground, Tom must findthe Water Babiesa group of fun-loving children who live far across the ocean. For only the WaterBabies can take Tom to the great Lord of the Seathe one creature powerful enough to make his every wish come true!

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Blast from the Past.......2007-04-04

I remember watching this movie on HBO when it was a brand new network. Remember the miniature town they built and the camera panning through it?... Anyway, this movie is cute is a weird psychadelic way. Love the tunes!

DVD purchase, Waterbabies.......2007-01-13

This is a movie i've been looking for since i was about 7 or 8 years old. I saw it when i was just a little boy and now i found it again, of course i had to buy it.
Since the perspective of a 8 year old and myself (30 years old) is slitghtly different, i wasn't as "great" as i remebered it to be but im still satisfied with my purchase. So to round it up, if you have kids at 5 to 7 years old, im pretty sure they would like this movie. Since it's kind of old you have to understand that the best thing about this movie is the story, not the graphic though it is alright.

Not worth the money.......2006-04-25

I saw this movie as a child and loved it, then again who doesn't love under water adventure? I thought that my children would be thrilled to see one of the movies I grew up with, HA! They got up and left the room to go play. The animation was awful; it's nothing like the bright cute colors on the DVD case. The stupid songs are now stuck in my head. All I can say it thank God for Disney. They never had bad stuff like this. I didn't even want to leave a star. It's BIG FAT 0 in my book, I gave it away to the Library.

A movie from my childhood.......2006-04-08

It's pretty much how I remember it. The animation isn't great compared to today's standards but considering I bought this for a trip down memory lane it was exactly what I was expecting!

A good old memory from Kid.......2005-03-28

I never read the book, I just remember seeing it on TV as Slip Slide Adventures. And I love the mixture of Cartoons and real humans in parts of the movie plus the story! I had like 12 years old and I liked it a lot. Since many movies now have too much killin I recommend this peaceful movie one for a kid to complements their great imagination!!!

Paul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist (The Emperor Jones / Body and Soul / Borderline / Sanders of the River / Jericho / The Proud Valley / Native Land / Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist) - Criterion Collection

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An excellent release

Paul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist (The Emperor Jones / Body and Soul / Borderline / Sanders of the River / Jericho / The Proud Valley / Native Land / Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist) - Criterion Collection
Starring: Paul Robeson , Henry Wilcoxon , Wallace Ford , Kouka , and John Laurie
Director: Thornton Freeland , Kenneth MacPherson , and Zoltan Korda
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ASIN: B000KRNGOA
Release Date: 2007-02-13

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Paul Robeson is today known for little more than singing "Ol' Man River" in Showboat, but this hefty and potent collection from Criterion (seven movies and a rich trove of documentary features and commentaries) should return Robeson to much-deserved cultural awareness. An imposing, charismatic black actor who demanded respect when most black actors were trapped in mammy and minstrel roles, and a singer whose deep, rolling voice won him acclaim on the concert stages of Europe, Robeson was among the most significant performers of the 20th Century--until the 1950s, when the U.S. government suspended his passport out of fear that Robeson's commitment to social progress and civil rights would project a negative view of America. But even before then, Robeson's career took place outside of the establishment channels of Hollywood. Paul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist includes two silent films (Body and Soul, a melodrama railing against the hypocrisies of the church, made by the pioneering black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux; and Borderline, a startlingly inventive story of an interracial love rectangle, made by film theorist Kenneth Macpherson), both given additional vitality by contemporary jazz scores; three movies from Robeson's rich period in England (Sanders of the Valley, Jericho, and The Proud Valley, which chart both Robeson's rising social conscience and his increasing clout in the industry); Robeson's most significant Hollywood film, The Emperor Jones, adapted from the Eugene O'Neill play that shot Robeson to stardom in the first place; and the movie that probably reflected Robeson's social beliefs more than any, the remarkable and riveting semi-documentary Native Land, which Robeson narrated.

Robeson is one of those rare actors, like Bette Davis or Humphrey Bogart, whose performances drive his movies as much as the director or the screenplay. Much is made of Robeson's powerful voice and intimidating physique, but just as impressive are his piercing eyes; in every role, a questing intelligence bursts through, looking at the world and cutting through charades and illusions. Criterion packages always have phenomenal extras, but Portraits of the Artist is unusually complex because Robeson's life is as important to his stature as his movies. These excellent features capture the world around Robeson, a world that both raised him up and tore him down. Far from a musty historical document, this is a film package that matters, which will reward and surprise viewers used to conventional notions of Hollywood and America. --Bret Fetzer

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All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson (1898-1976) was a towering figure and a trailblazer many times over. He made perhaps his biggest impact, however, in the medium of film. The son of an escaped slave, Robeson managed to become a top-billed movie star around the world during the time of Jim Crow America, always striving to use film to educate viewers about equality, democracy, and the rights of workers. Though he eventually left movies behind, using his international celebrity to speak on behalf of those denied their civil liberties and ultimately becoming a victim of ideological persecution himself, Robeson left a film legacy that continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African American.

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An excellent release.......2007-02-25

This Release of Paul Robeson films is a great release from Criterion. Released for Black History Month, this set includes 7 feature films and two documentaries.

Each disc contains two fims and select special features

"The Emperor Jones" is about a black man who escapes from a chain gang and flees to the West Indies.
"Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist" is a biographial documentary about Robeson narrated by Sidney Poiteir.
"Body and Soul" is about a corrupt preacher.
"Borderline" is about a group of interracial lovers
"Sanders of the River" is about an African tibesman
"Jericho" is about a black World War I soldier who deserts and heads to Africa,
"The Proud Valley" is about a coal miner in Wales
"Native Land" is socialist documentary film about labor unions.

Disc one contains commentary for "The Emperor Jones" by historian Jeffrey C. Stewart, "Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson" a retrospective containing interviews various black filmmakers and performers including James Earl Jones, and an interview with Robeson's son, Paul Robeson Jr.

Disc two contains commentary for "Body and Soul" by Micheaux historian Pearl Bowser. Also included are new scores for both films on the disc

Disc three contains "True Pioneer: The British Films of Paul Robeson" a progarm featuring interviews with Robeson Jr. and other persons

Disc four contains "The Story of Native Land," an interview with cinematographer Tom Hurwitz, and a1958 radio interview with Paul Robeson.

Also included is a booklet with various other materials

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Excellent Movie !!!!
A good film thats filled with laughs
The Cherokee Kid

The Cherokee Kid
Starring: Obba Babatundé , Paris Barclay , W. Earl Brown , Vanessa Bell Calloway , and Gary Cervantes
Director: Paris Barclay
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Excellent Movie !!!!.......2006-08-25

This Western captures your attention from beginning to end and doesn't let up. I originally watched this film thinking it would be a western parody (Sinbad) but was really surprised at just how good it was. It has an all star cast and great character developement. I love this movie.

A good film thats filled with laughs.......2002-05-17

The Cherokee Kid is a fun film from start to finish. I truly enjoyed the movie all the way through. The plot is simple, its your classic revenge story where Sinbad's parents where killed and vows revenge the man that killed his parents. The fun part is how he transforms for the young child with no real skills to survive in the west to one of the "Greatest Gun Slingers of All Time". If you have a little time and want to see a Sinbad film with decent acting and fun plot, then this is your film.

The Cherokee Kid.......2000-09-17

This is an excellant comedy/western in which Sinbad, who plays the main character Isiah Turner/Cherokee Kid, develops from a wet nosed runt to a true cowboy. Along his way Sinbad meets many people that help him avenge his parents deaths. His path leads him to many obstacles, among which is a showdown with his long lost brother. The two brothers then take down the men who killed their parents.

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He sent forth a raven
Jewel Thieves and Bellringers
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The Best of The Wimsey Mysteries
The Bell Tolls for Lord Peter

Lord Peter Wimsey - The Nine Tailors
Starring: Ian Carmichael , Glyn Houston , Keith Drinkel , Elizabeth Proud , and Anne Blake
Director: Raymond Menmuir
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ASIN: B00005NFYL
Release Date: 2001-09-11

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Devotees of Dorothy L. Sayers's impeccable sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, will want to pour themselves "two large whiskeys" to toast the release of this 1974 miniseries based on one of Sayers's most popular novels. Ian Carmichael stars in his signature role as the future aristocratic detective, who, as a young soldier en route to the battlefield, becomes embroiled in "a very distressing story." Someone has stolen "a king's ransom" in uninsured emeralds from the estate of Sir Charles (Desmond Llewelyn, better known to James Bond fans as "Q") on the night of his son's wedding. No mystery here: In this case, the butler really did do it. But that's only the beginning in a puzzler that will span 20 years, when Wimsey inadvertently returns to the scene of the crime and steps into some "damn bad business" involving a recently discovered mutilated body. He discovers at the bottom of a well and in a church tower baffling clues that harken back to that fateful robbery and the still-missing jewels. The nine tailors, by the way, refers to nine church bells and the arcane tradition of change ringing. This entry in the Wimsey series offers the usual pleasures of splendid acting, colorful characters, and intriguing story. We also get to see how Bunter became Wimsey's faithful manservant. Suffice to say, The Nine Tailors will really ring your bell. --Donald Liebenson

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Ian Carmichael stars as Dorothy L. Sayers' aristocratic detective in the most requested title in this phenomenally popular mystery series. Fans call The Nine Tailors not just Sayers' best novel but "one of the great novels of the century." Lord Peter finds himself caught up in a case involving a mutilated corpse, a 20-year-old jewel robbery, an outbreak of Spanish influenza and a set of nine church bells.

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He sent forth a raven.......2006-04-08

A young Lord Peter (Ian Carmichael) in uniform on his way to the war. He is standing in for his brother The Duke of Denver at a wedding. Mischief is afoot and an emerald necklace was pinched. Where it was stored for save keeping I can not say. It looks like the perpetrator was winged by a well placed shot. We get the inside story and know the truth.

All in the first chapter we see the crime and the fait of the perpetrators. We also get a first hand view of the meeting and growing relationship and Wimsey and Bunter (Glyn Houston.) As fait would have it Lord Peter finds him self once again in Fenchurch St. Pauli again. This time as providence would have it just in time to replace a sick bell ringer on New Year's Eve.

Three months later a body is found in and Lord Peter is invited to the inquest.

This film is based on a Dorothy L. Sayers novel of the same name with the screen adaptation by Anthony Steven.

At first you are not sure that this is the same peter Wimsey when you see the blond hair and mustache. However if you look close they made little attempt to cover the wrinkled face.

If you have an opportunity to view this film before reading the book you will not be distracted by the deviations and omit ions form the written story.

Jewel Thieves and Bellringers.......2003-02-09

This is one of my favorite Wimsey mysteries. I thought this was excellent-the country and village setting is very well done. Plenty of suspense and an interesting plot, that focuses on a long ago theft that devastates a family. Bunter was very enjoyable. However, I thought Wimsey seemed much too middle aged in the 1917 scenes-he was supposedly a young soldier but he acts and looks like he is 50! I think the age issue needs to be straightened out. Otherwise, the drama was full of old fashioned charm. I watched this a few months ago but this is worth seeing twice.

Great British mystery but buyer beware.......2002-11-15

I love this series a lot and enjoyed the first half of this particular mystery however there was a problem with the disc. This is a two disc set and while the second disc is correctly marked, it is actually a duplicate of the first disc! This is obviously a mistake in the factory but it is highly frustrating since it happened not once, but twice. It's quite frustrating to be left on a cliff hanger and then have the second half of the mystery be unavailable. By all means, buy this wonderful mystery but note that there are some defective sets floating around. I have ordered my third set and hope to finally see the ending. All I can say is, Buyer Beware, check both discs right away so you can return it promptly if you need to.

The Best of The Wimsey Mysteries.......2002-09-24

The Nine Tailors is my favorite Wimsey mystery,and not surprisingly, it is my favorite of the Ian Carmichael series which were produced in the 1970s. Here we see Lord Peter's early life as he attends a wedding where an expensive emerald necklace goes missing. World War I interrupts before an investigation can begin, and Wimsey goes off to fight. We see him meet Bunter, later his faithful valet/assistant, and eventually wind up back in the vicinity of the spot where the necklace went missing. His interest piqued, Wimsey resumes the investigation just as some surprising events and mysterious strangers reminds everyone in the village of the robbery. The untangling of this mystery is vintage Dorothy L.Sayers, with twists and turns and lots of red herrings. You also get to learn a lot about church bell peals. Highly recommended.

The Bell Tolls for Lord Peter.......2002-07-26

I have enjoyed listening to this story for over 12 years on cassette, before I finally found it on DVD this past winter. Of all the Dorothy Sayers stories I have listened to and read, this is the best and most well designed of the lot. Watching the story unfold on DVD brought back a lot of the memories I had from living in England for 4 years. Ian Carmichael plays the role of Lord Peter just right, as do the other characters. Having listened to the voices for so long, I felt I knew the characters so well. If you enjoy English mystery, whether it be Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Frances Durbridge, Dorothy Sayers, among so many, you will enjoy this DVD, as well as the others in this series. It is a truly special series of mysteries that add tremendously to the genre.

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I love The Proud Family!!

The Proud Family Movie
Starring: Kyla Pratt (II) , Tommy Davidson , Paula Jai Parker , JoMarie Payton , and Orlando Brown
Director: Bruce W. Smith
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ASIN: B000B8QFXM
Release Date: 2005-12-06

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Penny Proud is almost 16 years old, but her dad, Oscar, still treats her like a child! First, she's told she cannot be one of the dancers in the upcoming hip-hop half-time show starring teen rapper, 15 Cent. And now, instead of celebrating her sweet 16th birthday with her friends, she has to go on a boring vacation to the tropical Legume Island with her family. But it turns out the island is full of mysteries, The evil Dr. carver has lured them there in hopes of stealing Oscar's super-secret Instant Everlasting Multiplying Formula. With it, he hopes to take over the world. While Oscar, Tudy, grandma Suga Mama and the twins fight to escape from the doctor's clutches, Penny embarks on Operation: Family Liberation, outwits some clones, stars in half-time show, saves the world, and realizes she really does appreciate her unique and loving family.

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I love The Proud Family!!.......2005-10-08

I watched this on the Disney Channel. I first thought it was going to be dumb. Then turned out really great. I can't wait till the dvd comes out. Disney is finally releasing the Disney Channel Original Movies on dvd. I reccommend this and these other great DCOM's Get a Clue, Cadet Kelly, The Even Stevens Movie, The Cheetah Girls, Halloweentown/ Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge, Halloweentown High, Under Wraps (a rare dvd), and Miracle in Lane 2.

Classic Western Collection - The Outlaws (The Proud Ones, Forty Guns, Broken Lance, The Culpepper Cattle Co.)

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Classic Western Collection

Classic Western Collection - The Outlaws (The Proud Ones, Forty Guns, Broken Lance, The Culpepper Cattle Co.)
Starring: Robert Ryan , Virginia Mayo , Jeffrey Hunter , Robert Middleton , and Walter Brennan
Director: Robert D. Webb , Samuel Fuller , and Edward Dmytryk
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ASIN: B000EMGJC2
Release Date: 2006-05-23

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The Proud Ones: The main draw (and quick draw) of this 1956 Western is the marvelous presence of Robert Ryan in the lead role. This underappreciated actor plays a Kansas marshal with a history of perceived cowardice in his past. Everything comes to a head in a single week: a cattle drive ends in town, bringing shootin' and hollerin'; Ryan's nemesis, a casino-runner played by veteran bad guy Robert Middleton, arrives to soak the suckers; and young hotshot Jeffrey Hunter, whose father was killed by Ryan, arrives with revenge on his mind. Oh, and Ryan himself begins to suffer from blinding headaches. Despite the crowded plot, the results are Fifties Western boilerplate, with few distinguishing features beyond the cast. But the supporting ranks are crowded with essential horse-saga actors: Walter Brennan, Arthur O'Connell, Rodolfo Acosta, and of course the bearded, lizard-eyed Middleton. Virginia Mayo plays Ryan's hotel-keeper ladyfriend. Ace cinematographer Lucien Ballard gets a few good outdoor CinemaScope set-ups into the generally backlot feel of the thing. But the reason to see the film is lanky Robert Ryan, whose compelling mix of neurosis, gentleness, and fury is on full display here. --Robert Horton

Forty Guns: Forty Guns is the most rampantly sexualized Western ever made, and the most outrageous of Samuel Fuller's late-'50s B movies. Fuller's original title was "Woman with a Whip," referring to the hard-riding range baroness--Barbara Stanwyck, sporting silver hair and (most of the time) black, skintight man togs--who's "the boss of Cochise County" and a law unto herself. The forty guns are an army of pistoleros who accompany her just about everywhere, and Fuller misses no opportunity to exaggerate their macho assertiveness in black-and-white CinemaScope, whether thundering along the horizon or formed up on either side of a preposterously long dinner table with Stanwyck at its head. Barry Sullivan costars as a Wyatt Earp-like gunfighter who both threatens Stanwyck's empire and awakens her lust for something besides power. As one of his brothers, Gene Barry (soon to star in Fuller's mind-blowing Vietnam movie China Gate) enjoys a passionate liaison with a gunsmith's busty blond daughter (Eve Brent) whom he romances down the bore of a rifle--an image Jean-Luc Godard would memorialize in Breathless. In the relentlessly double-entendre dialogue and the blocking of scenes, everything takes on sexual overtones: power and impotence, political advantage and exclusion. Fuller and cameraman Joseph Biroc capture many sequences in single, minutes-long takes that often end in a death--and in one perverse instance, the revelation of a death that has occurred midway through without our knowing it. (It's a T.S. Eliot moment, though we won't insist on it.) Style is all in this movie, which will leave you either astonished or aghast. More likely, both. --Richard T. Jameson

Broken Lance: Broken Lance is a noble entry in the trend of adult Westerns of the early 1950s, scoring on a couple of fronts: (1) as a multigenerational saga, with Shakespearian overtones, of a family bickering over a giant ranch, and (2) as a grown-up look at the dilemma of the Native American... its title perhaps inspired by the Indian-friendly Broken Arrow? Spencer Tracy stars as the blustery patriarch of a cattle spread, threatened by pollution from a nearby copper mine as well as the shiftiness of his older sons (Richard Widmark, Hugh O'Brian, and Earl Holliman). Tracy's bluff characterization--as ever, he seems to be yanking at the script like a cat unraveling a ball of yarn--carries the film effortlessly along. The central character is actually his youngest and wisest son, played by Robert Wagner, who's not especially convincing as the mixed-race issue of Tracy's second marriage, to an Indian woman (Oscar nominee Katy Jurado). Edward Dmytryk directs in a style that could be called "intelligent," which is another way of saying "not very exciting." The early CinemaScope probably accounts for some of the static set-ups, although there are exteriors that are breathtaking (watching this film in its full-screen version would be crazy). The cast is certainly tops; Widmark is overqualified to play a third lead, but who's complaining? Most memorable is the loving relationship between Tracy's cattleman and his Indian wife, although the subject of Native Americans is secondary here (check out The Devil's Doorway and Apache for more overt Fifties looks at the topic). Veteran screenwriter Philip Yordan won an Oscar for his "original story," a curious and long-defunct Academy Award category. --Robert Horton

The Culpepper Cattle Co.: The Culpepper Cattle Company is a worthy example of a certain kind of early-1970s Western: deglamorized, unromantic, and frankly violent. This one begins in familiar terms, as a greenhorn lad (Gary Grimes, recently deflowered in Summer of '42) joins a cattle drive, surrendering himself to the extremely focused leadership of boss Frank Culpepper (the authentically Western Billy "Green" Bush). The episodes that follow are engrossing and colorful, and the drive gets more interesting when a quartet of lethal hombres (among them Bo Hopkins, Luke Askew, and wild-eyed Geoffrey Lewis) join the ride. The business of frontier justice--which here usually means shooting strangers just to be on the safe side--is worked out in refreshingly unheroic ways. Clearly director Dick Richards (making his debut in a relatively brief directing career) is responding to the revisionist era, and specifically to the films of the great Sam Peckinpah; this movie's climax is a scaled-down nod to The Wild Bunch. Probably too scaled-down, given the somewhat abrupt ending. The music uses themes from Jerry Goldsmith's terrific score for The Flim-Flam Man, released five years earlier. Culpepper got lost in the flurry of revisionist westerns that sounded similar themes: The Cowboys, The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid, and by far the best of this group, Robert Benton's Bad Company. All were released in 1972, a high-water mark for re-thinking the genre. --Robert Horton

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Episode Description: GiftSet Includes the Following Titles:

**Culpepper Cattle Co. **The Proud Ones **Broken Lance **Forty Guns

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Classic Western Collection.......2007-01-10

This was a xmas present for my fater-in-law. He loved it.

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