David Bruce

David Bruce

David Bruce (born Marden Andrew McBroom; January 6, 1914 – May 3, 1976) was an American film actor, known for his chilling performance as Ted Allison in The Mad Ghoul. He was a company member of Peninsula Players Theatre in Fish Creek, Wisconsin in 1939. Born in Kankakee, Illinois, he signed a movie contract with Warner Brothers in 1940. The Northwestern University graduate appeared in many movies from the 1940s until 1955 when Bruce decided to give up acting. The 6' 1" (1.85 m) actor appeared in over 60 movies including Flying Tigers (1942), Christmas Holiday (1944) and Lady on a Train (1945).

  • Title: David Bruce
  • Popularity: 4.42
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1916-01-06
  • Place of Birth: Kankakee, Illinois, USA
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  • Also Known As: Marden Andrew McBroom, Andy McBroom
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David Bruce Movies

  • 1940
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    Santa Fe Trail

    Santa Fe Trail

    5.6 1940 HD

    As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are...

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  • 1945
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    Lady on a Train

    Lady on a Train

    6.5 1945 HD

    While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one...

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  • 1950
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    Revenue Agent

    Revenue Agent

    1 1950 HD

    Accountant Augustis King discovers that his wife, Marfhe, is having an affair with his boss Sam Bellows. He telephones Internal Revenue Bureau that...

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  • 1944
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    Christmas Holiday

    Christmas Holiday

    6.4 1944 HD

    Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Abigail Martin...

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  • 1941
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    The Sea Wolf

    The Sea Wolf

    7 1941 HD

    Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind.

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  • 1943
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    Calling Dr. Death

    Calling Dr. Death

    6.5 1943 HD

    Losing his memories of the last few days, neurologist Dr. Steele is told that his wife has been brutally murdered. Steele, aware of his conniving...

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  • 1941
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    Sergeant York

    Sergeant York

    7.212 1941 HD

    Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep...

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  • 1944
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    Can't Help Singing

    Can't Help Singing

    5.1 1944 HD

    With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has...

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  • 1945
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    That Night with You

    That Night with You

    1 1945 HD

    In this musical comedy, a young singer becomes so desperate to appear on Broadway that she goes to a prominent producer and tells him that she is the...

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  • 1940
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    Alice in Movieland

    Alice in Movieland

    6.3 1940 HD

    In a U.S. town that could be anywhere, 18-year-old Alice Purdee wins a free trip to Hollywood. With the assistance of a cheerful porter, she takes...

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  • 1951
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    Pier 23

    Pier 23

    5.2 1951 HD

    Pier 23 was one of three hour-long mysteries produced by Lippert Productions for both TV and theatrical release. Each of the three films was evenly...

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  • 1941
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    The Smiling Ghost

    The Smiling Ghost

    6.5 1941 HD

    Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a...

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  • 1943
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    The Mad Ghoul

    The Mad Ghoul

    6 1943 HD

    A university chemistry professor experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student, turning the would-be surgeon into a murdering ghoul as...

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  • 1950
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    Hi-Jacked

    Hi-Jacked

    4.8 1950 HD

    A parolee, working for a trucking line, struggles to clear his name after being accused of involvement with hijackers.

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  • 1945
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    Salome, Where She Danced

    Salome, Where She Danced

    3.7 1945 HD

    During the Austrian-Prussian war, Anna Marie is a dancer who is forced to flee her country after she is accused of being a spy. She ends up in a...

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  • 1956
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    Jungle Hell

    Jungle Hell

    5 1956 HD

    Jungle natives are treated by a physician who goes against the wishes of a witch doctor to provide burn healing methods caused by radioactive rocks...

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  • 1941
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    Flight from Destiny

    Flight from Destiny

    5.2 1941 HD

    After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes...

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  • 1950
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    Pygmy Island

    Pygmy Island

    4 1950 HD

    Jungle Jim searches for a female Army captain who's gone missing.

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  • 1953
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    The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd

    The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd

    4 1953 HD

    Two British officers are assigned to collect information to convict Captain Kidd of piracy.

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  • 1949
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    The Sickle or the Cross

    The Sickle or the Cross

    6 1949 HD

    Reverend John Burnside, American missionary in the Far East, prepares to return home after twenty years to take up the fight against Communism. The...

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  • 1941
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    Singapore Woman

    Singapore Woman

    6.8 1941 HD

    A fallen woman seeks redemption at a Singapore rubber plantation. Melodrama.

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  • 1950
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    Timber Fury

    Timber Fury

    1 1950 HD

    Phyllis Wilson (Laura Lee) returns to the lumber camp owned by her father, Henry Wilson (Sam Flint)), and finds him in a struggle to keep his...

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  • 1940
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    The Man Who Talked Too Much

    The Man Who Talked Too Much

    6 1940 HD

    A young law graduate joins his older brother's legal practice, only to discover the firm's clients are mostly mobsters. Director Vincent Sherman's...

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  • 1942
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    Highways by Night

    Highways by Night

    6 1942 HD

    A young millionaire (Richard Carlson) joins the real world and meets a maid (Jane Randolph) and mobsters.

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  • 1948
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    Racing Luck

    Racing Luck

    1 1948 HD

    Brother and sister "Boots" Warren and Phyllis Warren inherit two race horses. One of the horses is claimed by a rival horse-owner, Jeff Stuart, when...

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  • 1944
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    Moon Over Las Vegas

    Moon Over Las Vegas

    1 1944 HD

    A beautiful woman goes to Las Vegas in a scheme to make her husbnd jealous, but once she gets there she becomes involved with another man.

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  • 1940
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    March On, Marines

    March On, Marines

    2.5 1940 HD

    Marine Sergeant Bob Lansing has just completed a tour of duty in the Pacific and is off to study at the Officer's Academy in Annapolis if he passes...

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  • 1944
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    Ladies Courageous

    Ladies Courageous

    3.5 1944 HD

    Loretta Young stars in this drama about female pilots during WWII.

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  • 1952
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    The Yellow Haired Kid

    The Yellow Haired Kid

    1 1952 HD

    Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok", The Yellow Haired Kid and Johnny Deuce, edited together and released as a feature.

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  • 1944
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    Allergic to Love

    Allergic to Love

    1 1944 HD

    Newlywed bliss surround O'Driscoll and Beery until they get on board the ship for their honeymoon in South America. Then she starts sneezing, and hay...

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  • 1943
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    She's for Me

    She's for Me

    1 1943 HD

    Two lawyers fall for their beautiful client.

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  • 1943
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    Honeymoon Lodge

    Honeymoon Lodge

    1 1943 HD

    Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a...

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  • 1946
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    Susie Steps Out

    Susie Steps Out

    1 1946 HD

    No Overview

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  • 1954
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    Cannibal Attack

    Cannibal Attack

    5.5 1954 HD

    Jungle Jim fights enemy agents who are trying to steal cobalt while disguised as crocodiles.

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  • 1943
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    How's About It

    How's About It

    3.5 1943 HD

    A song publisher gets sued for stealing lyrics.

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  • 1940
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    The Sea Hawk

    The Sea Hawk

    7.1 1940 HD

    Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.

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  • 1940
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    The Letter

    The Letter

    7.3 1940 HD

    After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.

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  • 1940
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    Pony Express Days

    Pony Express Days

    6 1940 HD

    In this short, a youthful Buffalo Bill Cody joins the newly-formed Pony Express as a station hand and replaces the regular rider when he is shot.

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  • 1940
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    A Dispatch from Reuters

    A Dispatch from Reuters

    5.7 1940 HD

    German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.

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  • 1940
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    East of the River

    East of the River

    5.7 1940 HD

    Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.

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  • 1940
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    Knute Rockne All American

    Knute Rockne All American

    5.9 1940 HD

    The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.

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  • 1941
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    The Body Disappears

    The Body Disappears

    5.2 1941 HD

    Wealthy scion Peter DeHaven, about to marry socialite Christine Lunceford, wakes up after bachelor party revelry to find he's been turned invisible...

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  • 1950
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    Young Daniel Boone

    Young Daniel Boone

    1 1950 HD

    Frontier scout Daniel Boone is sent out to locate the only two survivors of General Braddock's men that are believed two have lived through an Indian...

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  • 1950
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    Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill

    Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill

    1 1950 HD

    An elderly man leaves Wyoming to visit his daughter in a small Massachusetts town because, even though she didn't say so, he believes she needs his...

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  • 1942
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    Flying Tigers

    Flying Tigers

    6.2 1942 HD

    Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought the Japanese in China before America's entry into...

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  • 1940
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    River's End

    River's End

    6 1940 HD

    An escaped criminal pretends to be a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in order to prove his innocence of murder. Star Dennis Morgan plays...

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  • 1944
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    The Mummy's Ghost

    The Mummy's Ghost

    5.8 1944 HD

    An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning...

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  • 1954
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    The Iron Glove

    The Iron Glove

    4 1954 HD

    Irishman Charles Wogan wields his sword in the cause of James Stuart who seeks to replace George I on the throne of England.

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  • 1943
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    You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith

    You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith

    3.5 1943 HD

    A young woman marries a soldier to fulfill the conditions of a will. However, when she gets ready to divorce him, she realizes that she actually...

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  • 1943
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    Corvette K-225

    Corvette K-225

    6.2 1943 HD

    The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.

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  • 1944
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    South of Dixie

    South of Dixie

    1 1944 HD

    To save their music publishing firm from bankruptcy, Bill "Brains' Watson creates a colorful life-story about his partner, Danny Lee, representing...

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  • 1940
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    Money and the Woman

    Money and the Woman

    4.3 1940 HD

    An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.

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  • 1949
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    Joe Palooka in the Big Fight

    Joe Palooka in the Big Fight

    6 1949 HD

    Gangsters frame Joe on a drunk charge and a murder rap so they can put their own fighter into a big event. Joe investigates in an attempt to prove...

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  • 1943
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    Gung Ho!

    Gung Ho!

    5.3 1943 HD

    A true-life epic that revolves around an exclusive bataillon of the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, "Carlson's Raiders," whose assignment is...

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  • 1949
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    Prejudice

    Prejudice

    1 1949 HD

    Joe Hanson, who believes himself to be tolerant of other races and religions, gradually comes to realize that he is prejudiced against many of them.

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  • 1953
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    General Electric Theater

    General Electric Theater

    6 1953 HD

    General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was...

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  • 1951
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    The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

    The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

    4.5 1951 HD

    The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series which ran for eight seasons from 1951 through 1958. The Screen Gems...

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  • 1950
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    The Cisco Kid

    The Cisco Kid

    6.4 1950 HD

    The Cisco Kid is a half-hour American Western television series starring Duncan Renaldo in the title role, The Cisco Kid, and Leo Carrillo as the...

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  • 1952
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    Hopalong Cassidy

    Hopalong Cassidy

    6 1952 HD

    Hopalong Cassidy was television's first western program. The series aired on NBC and stared William Boyd as the cowboy Hopalong Cassidy.

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  • 1950
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    The Beulah Show

    The Beulah Show

    7 1950 HD

    The Beulah Show is an American situation-comedy series that ran on CBS Radio from 1945 to 1954, and on ABC Television from 1950 to 1952. The show is...

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