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Please lock me up. I'm gonna
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do something I don't try to desk. Go ahead? Is that where you're

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moving the last town or you're in
trouble? They think then they can protect

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me by thinking around the time you
had a good start in the wrong direction

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back there. Why'd you do it? What do you mean? Mess a

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kid up? Yeah? Call me
chicken, and your folks didn't understand I

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never do. They think that I
can make friends if we moved. Since

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just move, everything will be roses
and sunshine. But you don't think that's

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the right solution. If she eats
him alive and he takes it, thing's

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pretty rough for you at home?
Just zo? Why at the zoo?

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I mean, he always wants to
be my power? You know, how

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can I give him anything? If
he's I mean, I love him and

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all that type of stuff at night? I mean, I don't want to

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hurt him, But then I don't. I don't know what to do anymore

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except maybe ye on. I mean, if if he had guts to knock

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mom cold ones, then maybe she'd
be happy, and then she'd stopped picking

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on him. Does they make much
shout at him, you know, just

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mush No. I'll tell you one
thing. I don't ever want to be

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like him. Chicken, but just
teenage Yanks is a condition that is old

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as time. It has been depicted
in film many times over, even to

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the point where the stories in films
have somehow become blurred together. However,

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one film, despite being released nearly
sixty eight years ago, is still as

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transcendent, emotional and powerful now as
it was then. It also features one

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of the most landmark career defining performances
in cinema history. Shrouded in Tragedy,

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released in nineteen fifty five, directed
by Nicholas ray Rebel, Without a Cause,

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shows troubled teens in an effluent California
suburb. The three key teens are

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Jim, James Dean and his landmark
generational role Judy, the late Natalie Wood

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in Plato Sala Menino, all troubled
in their own way, facing problems at

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home that have far reaching consequences when
they act out. Our opening clip was

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Jim after being arrested for public drunkenness
as a miner, he is released to

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his parents. The heart to heart
we heard is what he has with the

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police chief. In our next two
clips show the pain both Judy and Jim

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have in regards to the turmoil and
issues in their home. Who's arguing and

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overreaching has caused this emotional turmoil within
Jim? And then we meet Judy who

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is just wanting her father's attention and
is acting out to get it, including

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staying out past curfew. Well,
I don't see what's so bad about taking

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a little drink. You don't know. I definitely he's a minor, missus

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dark and it looks to me like
he had more than a little drink,

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don't It was pretty good in my
day too? Oh? Really, Frank,

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when was that? Can't you wait
till we get home? Got anything

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to say for yourself? Not interested? Hugh? Can't you answer? What's

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the matter with you? Anyhow?
He's just loaded? Honey? I was

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talking to Jim. Well, I
had to like to just explain. You

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see, we just moved here,
you understand, and the kid hasn't got

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any friends moved into it. Will
you hold a gem? Tell him?

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Man? While we moved here,
will you hold it? You can't protect

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me? Do you mind if I
tried? Do you have to slam the

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door in my face. I try
to get to him. What happens?

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Don't I buy everything you want?
A bicycle, you get a bicycle,

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a car, You buy me many
things? No, no, well not

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just buy Will we give you love
and affection? Don't we? Well?

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Then what is it? Was it
because we went to that party? Well,

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you know what kind of drunken brawls. Those kind of parties turn into

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it's not a place for kids.
A minute ago, you said you didn't

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care if he drinks. He said
a little drink. You're tearing me appar

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what you say one thing, he
says another and everybody changes back again.

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That's a fine way to behave.
You know who he takes after? And

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now Judy, he nets me,
makes you think he hates you, Judy,

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I don't think. I know.
He looks at me like I was

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the ugliest thing in the world.
He doesn't like my friends, He doesn't

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like one thing about me. He
called me, He called me a dirty

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trip my own father. Do you
think your father really means that? Yes?

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No, I don't know. I
mean, maybe he doesn't mean it,

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but he acts like he does.
We were all together, we were

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going to celebrate Easter, and we
were going to catch a double bill,

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big deal. So I put on
my nude dress and I came out in

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grabbed my face. He started rubbing
off a little lipstick. M does that

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needn go off my lips? And
I read out of that house? Is

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that why you were wandering around at
one o'clock in the morning. Weren't looking

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for a company? Were you?
I don't even know why I do.

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Maybe you think you can get back
at your dad that way. I mean,

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if you're not as close to him
as you'd like to be, maybe

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this is one way of making him
pay attention. Did you ever think of

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that. I'll never get close to
anybody. Would you like to go home,

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Judy? If we can arrange it. What's your number, Judy?

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We'll ask your dad to come down
and pick you up. Unless you really

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don't want to go home, would
you rather stay here? As I mentioned

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at the beginning of this review,
this film is really known for delving into

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the human condition of teenage angst.
One of those symptoms of that condition is

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disagreeing with your parents, clashing with
your parents, fighting for control it within

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your life from your parents. While
the writing and direction of this film help

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convey all of this the performances are
really what gets the viewer into the inner

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crisis these young people are facing.
While there are many scenes throughout this film

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that depict this, our next clip
is the one that, in my opinion,

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is the best example. Following a
game of Chicken that has a tragic

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ending, Jim wants to turn himself
in, much to his parents' dismay.

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This is when I believe the full
emotional range of James Dean is on display.

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I'm going to the place. Did
anyone see you there? Did anyone

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see your license? But I don't. I don't know. I don't other

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boy, Do you think they'll go
to the police. It doesn't matter,

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It doesn't matter, It doesn't matter. Why should tell you what? Why

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are you trying to preach? Do
we have to listen to a sermon now?

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When I'm only trying to tell him? What do you mean? You

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can't be idealistic all your life?
Jim? Nobody, nobody getting a neck

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to yourself. Wait a minute,
you don't want me to go? No,

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no, I don't want you to
go to the police. There were

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other people. Why should you be
the only one involved? But I am

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involved. We are all involved.
Mom, A boy a kid was killed

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tonight. I don't see how I
can get out of that by break tending

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that it didn't happen. Well,
you know that you did the wrong thing.

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That's the main thing. Isn't nothing. That is absolutely nothing. Dad.

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You told me, you said you
want me to tell the truth.

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Now, didn't you say that you
can't turn it off? Well, he's

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not saying that. He's saying,
just don't volunteer. Just tell a little

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white guy you learn when you're older, Jim. Well, I don't think

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that I want to learn that way. Well, it doesn't matter anyway,

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because we're moving. I'm not telling
me loose again. Well, this is

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news to me. Just why are
we moving? Do I have to spell?

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I'm not going to use me as
an excuse again. I don't.

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Every time you can't face yourself,
you'll blame it on me. That is

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not true. But you say it's
because of me. You say it's because

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of the neighborhood. No, you
use every other funny excuse. Mom.

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I just once I want to do
something right, and I don't want you

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to run away from me again that
this is all going too fast. You're

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gonna give me something, you better
give me something fast. Jimmy, you're

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very young. A foolish decision,
not gonna your whole life in ten years.

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You'll never know this even had that
answer her? Tell her ten years,

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dad, Let me hear you answer
her? Kay? Did stand up

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for me? Stand up? You
want to kill your own father. While

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this film is wrought with emotion and
difficult scenery, it does feature a heartwarming

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romance between Jim and Judy. Our
final two clips show this. First,

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after a glancing pass at the police
station, Jim tries to be friendly towards

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Judy and is rudely rebuffed. Then, in our final clip, Judy apologizes

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to Jim and beautifully confesses her love. Hi. Hi, wait a minute,

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Hi, I've seen you before.
Well stop the world. Well now

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that's true, but life is crushing
in on me. Life can be beautiful.

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I know where it was? Where? What was where I first saw

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you? Everything going? Okay?
Now you live here, don't you?

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Who lives? Hey? Where's Dawson? And I at university in ten Thanks?

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You want to carry my books?
I got my car? You want

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to go with me? I go
with the kids. Yeah, yeah,

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all right, you know. I
bet you're a real young yo. I

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love you too. What's that?
Oh that's a new disease A friend of

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yours. I'm glad they let you
out. Nobody Chicken. They always live

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Which way university? Which? Which
way is the university? And tenth is

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that way? That way? Don't
worry. Finally, Judy's confession of love.

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I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I
treated you mean today. You shouldn't

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believe what I say when I'm with
the rest of the kids. Nobody,

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nobody act sincere. Mhm, why
did you do that? So like it?

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Ellipsy? So are you going?
I don't know. We can't stay

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here. I know one thing.
I'm not going back in that suit.

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I'm never going back. Listen,
I know a place Plato told me before.

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It's knowledge. I didn't mention I
put the planetarium. What we're doing.

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You can trust me, Judy.
Upon release, many critics admonished this

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film. They felt it was violent
and disturbing. Those that praised it raved

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about the performances of the three stars, the direction by Ray, the realism

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that the film depicted and didn't dare
shy away from. Filmgoers cited with the

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ladder. The film generated over seven
million dollars theatrically, making it the second

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highest grossing film for Warner Brothers that
year. It was nominated for three Academy

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Awards, including Best Actress for Wood
and Best Supporting Actor for Menino's Trail of

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Plato. Inexcusably, James Dean did
not receive a nomination, and the film

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did not win any Oscars. Sadly, that is not the most tragic aspect

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of this film. Neither are the
tragedies depicted in scenes within it. It

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has to be the tragic end of
the three stars of the film. Wood

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died by questionable drowning that to this
day has never been solved. Menino was

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staged, abbed fatally by a mugger
who didn't even know who he was.

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And finally James Dean, who would
die in a car accident one month prior

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to this film's release. He never
was able to relish in the acclaim in

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praise that his performance garners to this
day. Everyone should view this film not

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just out of appreciation to cinema,
but to a once in a lifetime talent

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that we never will know the heights
he could have climbed. I hope you

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join me next week when we will
dive into the sinister minister with tattooed hands

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with the nineteen fifty five suspense noir
film Night of the Hunter starring Robert Mitchum.

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