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13,700 | [
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13,701 | [
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13,702 | [
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13,703 | [
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13,704 | [
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13,705 | [
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13,706 | [
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13,707 | [
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13,708 | [
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13,709 | [
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13,710 | [
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13,711 | [
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13,712 | [
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13,713 | [
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13,714 | [
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13,715 | [
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13,716 | [
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13,717 | [
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13,718 | [
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13,719 | [
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13,720 | [
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13,721 | [
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13,722 | [
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13,723 | [
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13,724 | [
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13,725 | [
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13,726 | [
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13,727 | [
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13,728 | [
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13,729 | [
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13,730 | [
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13,731 | [
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13,732 | [
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13,733 | [
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13,734 | [
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13,735 | [
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13,736 | [
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13,737 | [
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13,738 | [
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13,739 | [
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13,740 | [
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13,741 | [
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13,742 | [
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13,743 | [
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13,744 | [
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13,745 | [
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13,746 | [
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13,747 | [
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13,748 | [
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13,749 | [
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13,750 | [
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13,751 | [
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13,752 | [
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13,753 | [
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13,754 | [
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13,755 | [
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13,756 | [
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13,757 | [
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13,758 | [
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13,759 | [
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13,760 | [
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13,761 | [
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13,762 | [
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13,763 | [
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13,764 | [
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13,765 | [
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13,766 | [
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13,767 | [
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13,768 | [
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13,769 | [
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13,770 | [
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13,771 | [
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13,772 | [
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13,773 | [
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13,774 | [
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13,776 | [
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13,777 | [
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13,778 | [
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13,779 | [
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13,780 | [
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] | 146 | 192 | Haines is excellent as the brash cadet who thinks West Point will really amount to something now that he has arrived. Haines displays his easy, goofy comic persona as he takes on West Point and Joan Crawford, the local beauty. Great fun for the first half. And amazingly touching after Haines's character goes too far an... | 1 |
13,782 | [
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] | 325 | 403 | A brash, self-centered Army cadet arrives at WEST POINT with a dangerous wise guy attitude towards the Corps.<br /><br />In a role obviously tailor-made for him, William Haines shines in this highly enjoyable tale of honor & friendship. A grade-A scene stealer, Haines during the first half of the film is up to his usua... | 1 |
13,783 | [
0,
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] | 56 | 67 | Was struck at how even the acting was throughout. William Haines had an acting range that is wonderful for silent film. Not over the edge. There are moments where the camera work is most excellent, and combined with the story, like when he is waiting to see the Superintendent, very well done.<br /><br /> Thoroughly enj... | 1 |
13,784 | [
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] | 122 | 155 | I just watched this, an early Harold Lloyd short film that featured his "glasses" character on Kino Video's DVD of "The Harold Lloyd Collection". He's actually a con man with Snub Pollard as his partner who gets discovered by Bebe Daniels who herself performs fake séances. What she discovers is that Lloyd and Pollard b... | 1 |
13,785 | [
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] | 250 | 311 | This is a very odd movie for Harold Lloyd--at least in regard to the sweet character he played in movies throughout the 1920s and 30s. Instead of a nice guy, he and Snib Pollard are con men--out to rob everyone blind. In a particularly successful con, Chester pretends to have lost a "very valuable ring" and a bit later... | 1 |
13,786 | [
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] | 342 | 430 | Sure, most people will designate "Island of the Fishmen" as silly and trashy hokum, but can you honestly name one other movie that brings forward THIS many exhilarating themes? This Italian gem stands for pure entertainment and features stuff like voodoo, volcanic eruptions, mutant fish-creatures, the mysterious contin... | 1 |
13,787 | [
500,
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] | 406 | 500 | I finally got a chance to settle in and compare the two versions of this film currently going around -- First, the good old scummy, sleazy Embassy VHS print called SCREAMERS, and then a new fully restored Italian DVD by everyone's new favorite media company, No Shame of Italy.<br /><br />The American adverts about "men... | 1 |
13,788 | [
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] | 109 | 143 | This movie surprised me. The box is misleading, the tagline is misleading and the costumes and tone of the film are misleading. The movie is quite gory, well-acted and beautifully shot. The special-effects are top-notch and seem to be ahead of their time, until you realize this movie came out in 1979, not in 1963 like ... | 1 |
13,789 | [
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] | 313 | 414 | Screamers is an Italian fantasy film (L'Isola degli Uomini Pesce) bought by Roger Corman and released through his New World Pictures. Of course Corman has to carve his initials on it by having one of his lackeys (Dan T. Miller) direct some additional gore footage before he has it released in the states.<br /><br />L'Is... | 1 |
13,790 | [
300,
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] | 226 | 327 | Fans of Euro-horror flicks - Portland's video/DVD store Movie Madness has a whole section devoted to this genre - can't afford to miss Sergio Martino's gut-busting "L'isola degli uomini pesce" (called "Screamers" in the United States). Here's the lowdown: some shipwreck survivors land on an uncharted Caribbean island i... | 1 |
13,791 | [
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] | 128 | 184 | When a group of escaped convicts manage to flee to a remote island,they soon find that their new home is inhabited by a strangely menacing doctor(Richard Johnson of "Zombi 2" fame),a mad scientist(Joseph Cotten),his beautiful daughter(Barbara Bach)and a horde of superstitious natives.The tribesmen say that the doctor h... | 1 |
13,792 | [
100,
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] | 82 | 102 | Although the video box for many copies of this film claims it is about people turned inside out, this is a total lie. In fact, apart from the opening segment, the film isn't even a horror movie. With its sunken treasure, legions of fish people, and mad scientists, it's a lot more like a Doug McClure adventure movie. Ob... | 1 |
13,793 | [
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] | 128 | 147 | action packed,with my favorite type of creature.I won't give any of it away if you have'nt seen it,cause it's worth taking the time to sit down and unravel in the mystery of things as presented in this film.It did gets slow at times and those were the moments my mind wondered which does easily anyways but moist of it k... | 1 |
13,794 | [
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] | 160 | 190 | I saw this movie on television as SCREAMERS and loved it. I heard an interesting story about this film. When Roger Corman released it to drive-ins in the summer of 1981, his trailer department sent out an advance trailer which was not actually footage from the film. It was allegedly footage of a naked woman being chase... | 1 |
13,795 | [
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] | 173 | 230 | Lt. Claude (Claudio Cassinelli) and several prisoners from his sunken ship wash ashore on an island owned by Edmond Rackham (Richard Johnson). Following a few random prisoner deaths, Rackham takes in Claude and his two remaining prisoners. Luckily for everyone, Barbara Bach just happens to be on the island too! Unlucki... | 1 |
13,796 | [
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] | 412 | 472 | Watching this odd little adventure movie, it's hard to believe that it was directed by the same man who brought us such high quality Giallo classics as The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh and The Case of the Scorpion's Tail, but it has to be said that despite it's low quality production values, Island of the Fish Men is an e... | 1 |
13,797 | [
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] | 351 | 479 | 1891: Stalwart, morally upright military doctor Lieutenant Claude de Ross (solid Claudio Cassinelli) and several other shipwreck survivors wash ashore on a remote tropical island that's governed with an iron fist by the ruthless and sadistic Edmund Rackham (superbly played to the deliciously slimy hilt by Richard Johns... | 1 |
13,798 | [
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] | 30 | 40 | This movie is based on the novel Island of dr. Moreau By H.G. Wells. It's a fairly good one too, it's at least better than the version by John Frankenheimer. | 1 |
13,799 | [
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] | 944 | 1,150 | An on screen caption informs us that it is 'the Caribbean Sea, May 1891'. A small lifeboat drifts aimlessly at sea containing six convicts from a shipwrecked prison ship, and the ship's Doctor a Lt. Claude De Ross (Claudio Cassinelli). It's night, a strange current takes the boat towards a strange, unnamed and uncharte... | 1 |
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