Walter McGrail

Walter McGrail

Birthday: 1888-10-18

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA

Biography: Walter B. McGrail (October 19, 1888 – March 19, 1970) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 150 films between 1916 and 1951. Besides feature films, he appeared in The Scarlet Runner, a 12-chapter serial.

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A Double Life
A Double Life

A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage takin...

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Police Call
Police Call

A professional fighter decides to quit the sport and go to college, but he finds out that his sister...

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Her Mad Bargain
Her Mad Bargain

After the death of her benefactress, Mrs. Beresford, Alice Lambert is evicted by Ruth, Mrs. Beresfor...

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Anybody's War
Anybody's War

A dog catcher is rejected by the army, but sneaks in with his dog....

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Lights Out
Lights Out

Notorious crooks "Hairpin" Annie and Sea Bass steal a suitcase on the train and discover that it is ...

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Tell Your Children
Tell Your Children

High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have d...

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Old San Francisco
Old San Francisco

In San Francisco, a villainous landowner with underworld connections seeks to steal the property of ...

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Is Love Everything?
Is Love Everything?

Virginia Carter accedes to her family's pressures and marries Jordan Southwick, who comes from a wea...

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Under Eighteen
Under Eighteen

Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the...

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The Veiled Woman
The Veiled Woman

A woman tells a girl who's just been rescued from a notorious rake, four stories of men from her own...

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Life's Twist
Life's Twist

Socially prominent but penniless Stephen De Koven marries Muriel Chester, a woman whose loveliness h...

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Bowery at Midnight
Bowery at Midnight

A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bo...

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The Shadow Strikes
The Shadow Strikes

Lamont Cranston assumes his secret identity as "The Shadow", to break up an attempted robbery at an ...

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The Song of the Soul
The Song of the Soul

Young, innocent, confiding, it is a shock to Ann Fenton to learn that her supposed husband is not a ...

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Riders of the West
Riders of the West

Ma Turner of Red Bluff sends for U.S.Marshal Buck Roberts to investigate a series of wide-spread rus...

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Brown of Harvard
Brown of Harvard

Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not...

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Sunset Range
Sunset Range

Grant hides stolen money in the luggage of Bonnie Shea who is moving west. Later when he and his men...

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Special Agent K-7
Special Agent K-7

Police detective Lanny resents the ongoing interference of the local FBI branch. Hoping to show up t...

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The Red Shadow
The Red Shadow

A Shadow Detective Story....

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The Kentucky Derby
The Kentucky Derby

Posing as relatives, Ralph and Helen Gordon visit Col. Moncrief Gordon's Kentucky mansion, hoping to...

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Ten Laps to Go
Ten Laps to Go

Larry Evans, champion race car driver, is envied by his chief rival, Eddie DeSylva, who has more amb...

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Lights of New York
Lights of New York

The story of two small-town barbers, Eddie and Gene, who are tricked into fronting a speakeasy for b...

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A Demon for Trouble
A Demon for Trouble

Dyer is buying ranches and then retrieving his check by having his gang kill the owner. Bob Worth ar...

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On the Great White Trail
On the Great White Trail

Death stalked Garou's Landing, in the Canadian frozen north, but who was the killer who murdered two...

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Midnight Madness
Midnight Madness

In Midnight Madness millionaire diamond miner Michael Bream (Clive Brook) discovers that the woman h...

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River's End
River's End

Sgt. Conniston and his alcoholic guide O'Toole are on the trail of an escaped murderer named Keith. ...

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West of Rainbow's End
West of Rainbow's End

Tim Hart (Tim McCoy), a former Texas Ranger, comes out of retirement to avenge the death of Lightnin...

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Night Nurse
Night Nurse

Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training sh...

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Soldiers and Women
Soldiers and Women

Captain Clive Branch, United States Marine Corps, is stationed at a Marine base in Haiti, and is hav...

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Women Everywhere
Women Everywhere

Charles Jackson, an American sea-captain and singing soldier-of-fortune, is arrested by the French F...

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Held For Ransom
Held For Ransom

A female detective investigates the kidnapping of a wealthy businessman....

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Playthings of Destiny
Playthings of Destiny

Canadian schoolteacher Julie Leneau becomes the bride of Geoffrey Arnold but is soon confronted by C...

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State Trooper
State Trooper

Mike Rolph quits his job, seemingly, as a highway patrolman and takes the position of the Police Chi...

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Suzanna
Suzanna

Hoping to consolidate their adjoining ranches, Don Fernando and Don Diego betroth their children, Ra...

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Men Without Women
Men Without Women

Made during the early days of sound cinema, this tense submarine adventure is an intriguing example ...

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Blockade
Blockade

Blockade was one of those curious 1929 hybrids known as a "part-talkie." The story of a dauntless fe...

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The Black Secret
The Black Secret

Adventures of an American Secret Service-girl in search of an important German secret during the war...

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The Pay-Off
The Pay-Off

A thug robs a young engaged couple of their last few dollars. When the thug's gang boss hears of the...

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Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation
Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation

When the nation of Ruthania declares war on the United States, an army of enemy soldiers invades the...

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Where the North Begins
Where the North Begins

A German Shepherd puppy is "adopted" by a wolf pack in the snowy and frozen Great North and raised b...

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The Last of the Duanes
The Last of the Duanes

Buck Duane avenges his father's murder by gunning down the killer, but must flee from the law. He fi...

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Part Time Wife
Part Time Wife

The story concentrates of neglectful husband Jim Murdock (Edmund Lowe) and his frustrated wife Betty...

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The River of Romance
The River of Romance

Mississippi, 1830's. Tom Rumsford comes back to Magnolia Landing, his parents'estate. Having been br...

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Adventure
Adventure

David Sheldon owns a plantation in the Solomon Islands. Many of his field hands die of blackwater fe...

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In Old Montana
In Old Montana

The Colonel sends Fred Dawson and Doc Flanders to investigate a cattleman sheepman war. Posing as a ...

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The City
The City

The City is a lost 1926 silent film produced and released by the Fox Film Corporation. It was direct...

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Code of the Fearless
Code of the Fearless

When it appears that Fred Jamison is a member of Red's gang, he is kicked out of the Rangers. But it...

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The Eleventh Hour
The Eleventh Hour

An evil prince plans to use a super-explosive to take over the world....

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Stagecoach
Stagecoach

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo...

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The Sun Never Sets
The Sun Never Sets

The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home fr...

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Vanity Street
Vanity Street

A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get he...

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Night Beat
Night Beat

A young couple finds themselves mixed up with mobsters planning to rob a warehouse....

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Mysterious Doctor Satan
Mysterious Doctor Satan

A mad scientist named Dr. Satan plots to steal key pieces of technology to enable him to build an ar...

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Calling All Marines
Calling All Marines

Gang members Blackie Cross and Snooker try to pick up Judy Fox and her friend Pat as they welcome ho...

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The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due t...

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The Green Hornet
The Green Hornet

A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious maske...

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McKenna of the Mounted
McKenna of the Mounted

Jones played Tom McKenna, a disgraced Royal Canadian Mountie who turns highway robber to pay off his...

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The Mad Marriage
The Mad Marriage

Mary Jane is a girl born out of wedlock whose mother, Alice, attempts to offer her respectability by...

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The Invisible Fear
The Invisible Fear

A young woman mistakenly believes she has killed a man in a struggle to repel his unwanted advances....

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Marked Men
Marked Men

A man accused of planning a prison break turns the tables on escaped cons by leading the group into ...

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My Little Chickadee
My Little Chickadee

While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked ...

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Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.

Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible....

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Is Divorce a Failure?
Is Divorce a Failure?

Directed by Wallace Worsley....

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Nobody's Money
Nobody's Money

Two newspapermen who wrote a successful book using a phony author have to come up with a real person...

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Havoc
Havoc

A war drama produced only 7 years after the end of World War I. Based on the play by Henry Wallace i...

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The Teaser
The Teaser

Ann Barton, the daughter of a once-wealthy family, is forced to clerk at the cigar counter of a vill...

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The Play Girl
The Play Girl

When Madge, a clerk in a flower shop, is sent to a bachelor's apartment to deliver and arrange a bou...

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Billy the Kid Outlawed
Billy the Kid Outlawed

In the first of the six films Bob Steele made in PRC's "Billy the Kid" series, gun law rules in Linc...

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Billy the Kid Trapped
Billy the Kid Trapped

Stanton breaks Billy and his two friends Fuzzy and Jeff out of jail. He wants them free so three of ...

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Along the Rio Grande
Along the Rio Grande

A trio of cowboys infiltrate a cattle rustler's gang to seek vengeance for one of their fathers' mur...

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The Dancers
The Dancers

Young Tony, unable to make a living in crowded and fast-paced London, goes to South America in searc...

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And Then There Were Four
And Then There Were Four

Driving safety film sponsored as a public service by oil companies. Of five drivers who leave home i...

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Men of the Night
Men of the Night

"Stake-Out" Kelly, ace detective, meets Mary Higgins at a small Hollywood sandwich shop where he exp...

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Robbers' Roost
Robbers' Roost

Running from the law, Jim Hall joins Hays’ gang. Hays is foreman on the Herrick ranch and plans to r...

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When the Door Opened
When the Door Opened

"When the door opened" Clive Grenfel sees his wife in another man's arms. A tussle ensues leading Cl...

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American Beauty
American Beauty

Millicent Howard, whose appearance and persona bring her a life of luxury. A millionaire named Clave...

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The World Moves On
The World Moves On

Two families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear to ...

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Murder by the Clock
Murder by the Clock

A policeman investigates a woman's link to murders that are preceded by a shrilling horn inside a fa...

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The Lone Star Ranger
The Lone Star Ranger

After shooting a man in self-defense, Buck Duane finds himself accused of many crimes, none of which...

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The Accusing Finger
The Accusing Finger

A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly c...

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The Adventure Shop
The Adventure Shop

A society girl looking for thrills, poses as a tough "underworld" character. She is rescued by her w...

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Across the Pacific
Across the Pacific

Following the Spanish-American War, a soldier is given the assignment of finding the leader of a ban...

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The Cradle
The Cradle

A socialite couple thinks only of themselves. When they become bored with one another, they divorce ...

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A Son of the Sahara
A Son of the Sahara

As a boy, Raoul is reared by an Arab tribe in Algerian Sahara. Years later, as a refined Europeanize...

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Marriage License?
Marriage License?

When English nobleman Marcus Heriot marries the young Canadian Wanda his family, especially his moth...

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A Son of His Father
A Son of His Father

'Big Boy' Morgan and his friend, invalid Charlie Grey, must overcome the efforts of the villainous H...

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Pilgrims of the Night
Pilgrims of the Night

The son of a British earl, Philip Champion is exiled to Paris after having served a prison term to s...

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The Combat
The Combat

Blaze Burke, rough-and-ready lumberjack, is promised the job of camp boss if he eliminates a gang of...

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Appointment for Love
Appointment for Love

Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymo...

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Seas Beneath
Seas Beneath

In the waning days of WWI, a U.S. "Mystery Ship," sets sail for the coast of Spain towing a submarin...

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The Country Cousin
The Country Cousin

The Country Cousin...

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Union Depot
Union Depot

Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metr...

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Unguarded Women
Unguarded Women

Unguarded Women is a lost 1924 silent film drama. In a battle during the World War, Douglas Albrigh...

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The Scarlet West
The Scarlet West

Cardelanche, the son of an Indian chief, returns from the East to find himself rejected by his own p...

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The Top of New York
The Top of New York

Hilda lives in a tenement apartment with her aunt, Mrs. Brady, and her crippled younger brother Mick...

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Darling Mine
Darling Mine

Persuaded by a letter from her Aunt Agnes in America, Kitty McCarthy ( Olive Thomas ) travels from I...

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Over There
Over There

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David Harum
David Harum

Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom ...

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Champion of Lost Causes
Champion of Lost Causes

Loring, an author, in getting material for a book, goes to a gambling den. He sees Wilbur, who acts ...

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The Girl Problem
The Girl Problem

A model by day and a short-story writer by night, Erminie Foster is insulted when novelist Ernest Sa...

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Forbidden Waters
Forbidden Waters

After divorcing her husband in Reno, Nancy Bell is arrested for speeding and thrown into jail. Unabl...

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Habit
Habit

Irene Fletcher, the pampered daughter of a Long Island millionaire on the brink of bankruptcy, has t...

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The Breaking Point
The Breaking Point

Ruth Marshall's dire financial situation forces her to marry Richard Janeway, a wealthy but drunken ...

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Gerald Cranston's Lady
Gerald Cranston's Lady

Gerald Cranston, a successful financier and industrialist who worked his way up through the ranks, e...

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The Yosemite Trail
The Yosemite Trail

Cousins Jim and Ned Thorpe are best friends, but that comes to an end when they both vie for the aff...

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The Bad Man
The Bad Man

Infamous Mexican bandit Pancho López recognizes Gilbert Jones as the man who once saved his life; th...

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Her Husband's Secret
Her Husband's Secret

A young couple's future is put in jeopardy by both the past and present actions of their parents....

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Prisoners of the Storm
Prisoners of the Storm

Miners Bucky Malone and Pierre Le Grande are closing their northern mine for the winter when Sergean...

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