Frank Pettingell

Frank Pettingell

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Frank Pettingell (1 January 1891 – 17 February 1966) was an English actor. Pettingell was born in Liverpool, and educated at Manchester University. During the First World War he served with the King's Liverpool Regiment. He appeared in such films as the original 1940 Gaslight (as the former detective who solves the case), Kipps (1941 - as Old Kipps), and Becket (1964 - as the Duke of York). His collection of printed and manuscript playscripts - mostly acquired from the son of the comedian Arthur Williams (1844–1915) - is held at the Templeman Library, University of Kent. Description above from the Wikipedia article Frank Pettingell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

  • Title: Frank Pettingell
  • Popularity: 5.055
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1891-01-01
  • Place of Birth: Liverpool, England, UK
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Frank Pettingell Movies

  • 1958
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    Corridors of Blood

    Corridors of Blood

    6.1 1958 HD

    An 1840s British surgeon, experiments with anesthetic gases in an effort to make surgery pain-free. While doing so, his demonstration before a panel...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Boris Karloff

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  • 1952
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    The Crimson Pirate

    The Crimson Pirate

    6.952 1952 HD

    Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Burt Lancaster

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  • 1962
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    Trial and Error

    Trial and Error

    6.5 1962 HD

    After nearly 40 years of waiting for his big chance, Wilfred Morgenhall is given the case of defending Herbert Fowle who is accused of murdering his...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Peter Sellers

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  • 1948
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    Escape

    Escape

    5.6 1948 HD

    A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the run aided by a local girl.

    Genre: Thriller

    Cast: Rex Harrison

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  • 1952
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    The Card

    The Card

    6.9 1952 HD

    A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Alec Guinness

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  • 1940
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    Gaslight

    Gaslight

    7.1 1940 HD

    Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow's murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move into the very house where the...

    Genre: Thriller

    Cast: Adolf Wohlbrück

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  • 1962
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    Term of Trial

    Term of Trial

    5.7 1962 HD

    A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires contempt in almost everyone around him,...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Laurence Olivier

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  • 1942
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    The Goose Steps Out

    The Goose Steps Out

    6.4 1942 HD

    Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Will Hay

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  • 1938
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    Sailing Along

    Sailing Along

    7 1938 HD

    A barge-owner's adopted daughter falls in love with his son, and gives up her chances of stardom to be with him.

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Jessie Matthews

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  • 1935
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    Where’s George?

    Where’s George?

    1 1935 HD

    A British comedy about a blacksmith who in looking to get away from his wife discovers a talent for rugby league.

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    Cast: Sydney Howard

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  • 1941
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    This England

    This England

    6.2 1941 HD

    Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans,...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Emlyn Williams

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  • 1933
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    Red Wagon

    Red Wagon

    1 1933 HD

    Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Charles Bickford

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  • 1933
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    A Cuckoo in the Nest

    A Cuckoo in the Nest

    4.5 1933 HD

    A crowded inn means that a man and a woman must share the same room for a night. One problem is that they are both married - to other people. The...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Tom Walls

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  • 1937
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    Millions

    Millions

    4.5 1937 HD

    Two feuding millionaires try to destroy each other's business while their children fall in love with each other.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Gordon Harker

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  • 1936
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    The Amateur Gentleman

    The Amateur Gentleman

    4 1936 HD

    A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn, who happen to be members of English...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

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  • 1935
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    The Last Journey

    The Last Journey

    7.2 1935 HD

    Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Godfrey Tearle

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  • 1932
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    Frail Women

    Frail Women

    4.7 1932 HD

    An illegitimate war-baby adopted by a wealthy spinster.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Mary Newcomb

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  • 1933
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    The Good Companions

    The Good Companions

    5.8 1933 HD

    Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Jessie Matthews

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  • 1940
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    Busman's Honeymoon

    Busman's Honeymoon

    5.4 1940 HD

    When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Robert Montgomery

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  • 1933
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    This Week of Grace

    This Week of Grace

    3.5 1933 HD

    Grace Milroy loses her job working at a factory. However, through a strange set of circumstances, she is taken on as housekeeper at the nearby...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Gracie Fields

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  • 1933
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    The Medicine Man

    The Medicine Man

    1 1933 HD

    A young man impersonates a doctor.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Claud Allister

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  • 1935
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    The Right Age to Marry

    The Right Age to Marry

    1 1935 HD

    A Yorkshire mill owner retires and leaves control to his nephew, who promptly gets married.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Frank Pettingell

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  • 1941
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    Ships with Wings

    Ships with Wings

    4 1941 HD

    Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade...

    Genre: War

    Cast: John Clements

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  • 1940
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    Return to Yesterday

    Return to Yesterday

    6.2 1940 HD

    Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Clive Brook

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  • 1935
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    The Big Splash

    The Big Splash

    1 1935 HD

    A millionaire hires a man to play his double...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Frank Pettingell

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  • 1942
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    The Young Mr. Pitt

    The Young Mr. Pitt

    5.4 1942 HD

    This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Robert Donat

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  • 1942
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    The Seventh Survivor

    The Seventh Survivor

    6 1942 HD

    During the Second World War, a German spy goes on the run, carrying important news about a U-Boat campaign. The ship he is traveling aboard is hit by...

    Genre: War

    Cast: Austin Trevor

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  • 1931
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    Hobson's Choice

    Hobson's Choice

    4 1931 HD

    A coarse boot-shop owner becomes outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler.

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: James Harcourt

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  • 1931
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    Jealousy

    Jealousy

    1 1931 HD

    A man falls madly in love with a woman and stages a robbery in an effort to frame her sweetheart

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Lilian Oldland

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  • 1932
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    The Crooked Lady

    The Crooked Lady

    1 1932 HD

    An ex army officer is forced to resort to a life of crime.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: George Graves

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  • 1932
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    Once bitten

    Once bitten

    1 1932 HD

    A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Ursula Jeans

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  • 1932
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    A Tight Corner

    A Tight Corner

    1 1932 HD

    A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Harold French

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  • 1946
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    Gaiety George

    Gaiety George

    5.5 1946 HD

    The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment. Set in the late 19th and...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Richard Greene

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  • 1932
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    In a Monastery Garden

    In a Monastery Garden

    1 1932 HD

    An Italian musician begins to steal his brother's compositions after he is jailed for shooting a prince.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: John Stuart

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  • 1943
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    Get Cracking

    Get Cracking

    6.5 1943 HD

    Get Cracking is a 1943 British comedy war film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Dinah Sheridan, Ronald Shiner and George Formby. It was...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: George Formby

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  • 1952
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    Meet Me Tonight

    Meet Me Tonight

    6.7 1952 HD

    Meet Me Tonight was the American title for the British-filmed Tonight at 8:30, adapted from the Noel Coward stage production of the same name.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Valerie Hobson

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  • 1964
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    Becket

    Becket

    7.191 1964 HD

    King Henry II of England has trouble with the Church. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, he has a brilliant idea. Rather than appoint another...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Richard Burton

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  • 1952
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    The Magic Box

    The Magic Box

    6.3 1952 HD

    Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Robert Donat

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  • 1953
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    The Great Game

    The Great Game

    6 1953 HD

    The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical approach to a star player of another club, and the ensuing...

    Genre:

    Cast: James Hayter

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  • 1948
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    No Room at the Inn

    No Room at the Inn

    7 1948 HD

    A group of children are evacuated during world war two into the care of an alcoholic woman.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Hermione Baddeley

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  • 1957
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    The Film That Never Was

    The Film That Never Was

    1 1957 HD

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Brian Oulton

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  • 1937
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    It's a Grand Old World

    It's a Grand Old World

    1 1937 HD

    An unemployed man wins the football pools, and decides to buy a country house for his actress girlfriend.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Sandy Powell

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  • 1955
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    Value for Money

    Value for Money

    6.6 1955 HD

    A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: John Gregson

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  • 1934
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    Sing As We Go

    Sing As We Go

    5.6 1934 HD

    When the textile mill closes, putting her out of work, Gracie finds herself experiencing all of the amusements of Blackpool.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Gracie Fields

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  • 1951
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    When We Are Married

    When We Are Married

    1 1951 HD

    Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually married in the eyes of the law. This was the third...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Jack Howarth

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  • 1957
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    When We Are Married

    When We Are Married

    1 1957 HD

    Three long-married couples in northern England discover that their marriages are in fact invalid, causing much re-evaluation and chaos. This was the...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Frank Pettingell

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  • 1953
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    Meet Mr. Lucifer

    Meet Mr. Lucifer

    5 1953 HD

    A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.

    Genre: Fantasy

    Cast: Stanley Holloway

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  • 1934
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    My Old Dutch

    My Old Dutch

    1 1934 HD

    Moving family drama of the life of a working-class Hackney couple over 40 years, inspired by the famous music hall song This moving family drama -...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Betty Balfour

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  • 1933
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    Excess Baggage

    Excess Baggage

    1 1933 HD

    'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Frank Pettingell

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  • 1938
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    Queer Cargo

    Queer Cargo

    1 1938 HD

    The Captain of a tramp steamer is forced by his ship's owner to smuggle some priceless pearls, and take them to Singapore.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: John Lodge

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  • 1958
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    Up the Creek

    Up the Creek

    5.8 1958 HD

    Bumbling navy officer Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather (David Tomlinson) is transferred to HMS Berkeley, an old World War II destroyer, to keep him...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: David Tomlinson

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  • 1937
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    Take My Tip

    Take My Tip

    1 1937 HD

    Lord and Lady Pilkington get tricked out of their money by a con man. They later run into the swindler in a hotel - which happens to be owned by...

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Jack Hulbert

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  • 1959
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    The Thought of Tomorrow

    The Thought of Tomorrow

    1 1959 HD

    Geoffrey Hansbury's clothing empire is on the verge of collapse. His health his deteriorating and relies on his secretary Jane Harrison, who is also...

    Genre:

    Cast: Rupert Davies

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  • 1967
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    No Hiding Place

    No Hiding Place

    3.7 1967 HD

    No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Johnny Briggs

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  • 1960
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    An Age of Kings

    An Age of Kings

    4.7 1960 HD

    A linking together of Shakespeare's history plays chronicling the rise and fall of monarchs over the 86 years between Richard II and Richard III.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Terry Scully

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