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The Wild Bunch

Western

An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them. From TMDB

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  • Westerns & the Old West @davidlambertart.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 18, 2026

    Budd Boetticher's list of the best Westerns of all time: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Red River The Wild Bunch Seven Men from Now High Noon Shane Rio Bravo *from The Variety Book of Movie Lists (1994)

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  • MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 16, 2026

    6/18/69: Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch [DP Lucien Ballard] w/William Holden, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates Our take: midcenturycinema.org/node/176 More @jhoberman.bsky.social: arguably the strongest Hollywood movie of the 1960s @hamrahrama.bsky.social: www.bookforum.com/print/2505/t...

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  • Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 17, 2025

    Still thinking about last night’s viewing, SWORD OF DOOM (1966). Kind of does for the Samurai film what Peckinpah’s THE WILD BUNCH did for the Western. Looking at director Kihachi Okamoto’s filmography, I definitely have to check out more of this guy’s work.

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  • HunkyKubrick/♑♄ ZoSo/🇮🇪🇬🇧 @hunkykubrick.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 5, 2026

    #NowWatching #FilmSky 'Straw Dogs'. 1971 (Sam Peckinpah) The 1970s produced numerous works of film controversy - Sam Peckinpah's second serious look at violence would prove to cause even more outrage than The Wild Bunch. You can read my writing below: ⬇️ letterboxd.com/hunkykubrick...

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 16, 2026

    #NowWatching THE WILD BUNCH (1969). Director: Sam Peckinpah. William Holden, Ernest Borgnine. Rewatching classic about aging outlaws looking for one last score, selling weapons to a rogue general of Mexican Revolution. #filmsky 📽

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  • Bloody Sam: A Peckinpah Fan Podcast @bloodysam.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 29, 2026

    On this month episode me and my special guest Ryan Rebalkin (Directors Chair Network) tackle Peckinpah's most famous film and the one that solidified him as "Bloody" Sam. It is,of course, "The Wild Bunch" open.spotify.com/show/5XEwQd8...

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  • David Lapham @davidlapham.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 2, 2026

    I love Peckinpah. The Wild Bunch is maybe my favorite film. Wow. This. It’s a steaming pile of garbage. Especially after the first 20 minutes. Clearly done for booze money.

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  • desertscribe.bsky.social @desertscribe.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 12, 2026

    So Happy I saw The Highwaymen. My film partner & I went to the Wild Bunch FF, I was seated, but P came in after lights dimmed. He attempts to take a seat & we later learned I was sitting next to John Carter Cash & an empty seat with a black cowboy hat which was the seat P almost sat in. JCC yells NO

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  • Schlockmania! @schlockmania.bsky.socialBluesky · May 13, 2026

    Ask a more mainstream film buff what the definitive Sam Peckinpah film is and you’ll probably hear THE WILD BUNCH. But the real 'heads know BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA is the true champ of that division.

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  • Anita 🎬🎥📺🎶📚 @gemini53.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 6, 2026

    #OctoberMovieChallenge Day 7 - something is assembled in a movie The Wild Bunch (1969) #filmsky #moviesky ...in the waning days of the old West a gang of aging outlaws, a former gang member and some bounty hunters assemble in Mexico for various reasons that lead to a violent showdown...

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  • Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.socialBluesky · May 18, 2026

    Literally the only film I can think of that’s on the same level is The Wild Bunch

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  • Pabst Boo Ronin @pabstblueronin.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 31, 2026

    Movie Mindset list: Sexy Beast Shogun Assassin My Life as a Dog Casino On Any Sunday Conan the Barbarian Repo Man The Wild Bunch The Blues Brothers The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Blade Dr. Strangelove Apocalypse Now Step Into Liquid Dogtown and Z Boys High Noon The Thing Starship Troopers

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  • Shannon Strucci @strucci.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 15, 2026

    Just watched The Wild Bunch with @davidrodmad.bsky.social @emperorotn.bsky.social and @lankyframpard.bsky.social ! Having seen Straw dogs, not what I expected as far as violence. Easy to see how much it influenced film/American culture.

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  • MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 18, 2025

    6/18/69: Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch w/William Holden, Robert Ryan, O'Brien, Oates, ++ @jhoberman.bsky.social: "arguably the strongest Hollywood movie of the 1960s" More: @hamrahrama.bsky.social on Stratton book: www.bookforum.com/print/2505/t... Our Take: midcenturycinema.org/2019/06/18/5...

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  • Bill-a Lugosi's Dead @neokefka99.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 9, 2026

    And another big name I'm not seeing mentioned: Sam Peckinpah. I knoW the Wild Bunch's bracketing shootouts get all the attention but the film's mid-movie train heist / chase / brige explosion is straight up one of the most well crafted action sequences put on film. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr_U...

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  • Bill-a Lugosi's Dead @neokefka99.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 1, 2026

    The actress that plays Rikishi's wife in SEVEN SAMURAI ain't in the movie much but damn if she doesn't leave an impression. Reminds me a bit of Teresa in THE WILD BUNCH, both good and bad.

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  • Toon Brains @cartoonbrains.bsky.socialBluesky · May 19, 2026

    Currently watching The Wild Bunch for the first time. Its good but goddamn it really shows how far we've come with treating animals better in film production. I feel SO bad for the horses in this movie

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  • Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 21, 2026

    "The end of a picture is always an end of a life." 🎬 #SamPeckinpah, American film director ("The Wild Bunch", "Straw Dogs"), was #BOTD 21 February 1925. #Film #Filmmaking

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  • desertscribe.bsky.social @desertscribe.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 12, 2025

    With so many good movies, I avoid over-the-top gore. Neither do I want to sit thru a frustrating film. Like Susan, I won't watch Banshees of Inisherin again. Altho I like Bill Holden, I will avoid The Wild Bunch for the hopeless ending. Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid ends sadly, but you get Paul & RR.

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  • Fraser H @hungryforsound.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 22, 2025

    Choose one film from each of your 30 favourite directors. Name of the film, and director, along with a still. The Wild Bunch. Sam Peckinpah. 28/30 #filmsky #moviesky

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  • AJ: A Mario Bava Film @ajmacready.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 28, 2024

    If a movie released next week had the first 15m THE WILD BUNCH has you'd think: "Damn. They didn't need to go *that* hard. I'm ready. Let's fucking go." In 1969? It must have felt like another planet in that theater. I cannot even imagine what being there would have been like. Cinema, man. Love it.

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  • The Callie is Coming from Inside the House @calliedot.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 21, 2026

    Like most girls, “The Wild Bunch” is my favorite movie. It’s the film Tarantino would make if he was a good director BOOM SHOTS FIRED QUENTIN YA BURNED

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  • Beck Jones @beckjoneshere.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 5, 2026

    Forget Johnny Depp's pretty boy Dillinger. Warren Oates, #botd in 1928, was the real deal in the John Milius film. Oates played tough guys and rough guys in movies like The Wild Bunch and Bring Me the Head of Alfred Garcia, but he was surprisingly good at comedy, too. Dead at 53. #moviesky #filmsky.

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  • Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 13, 2026

    Important rewatch. It’s almost The Wild Bunch crossed with those effortless medieval epics made by the Czech New Wave. (I had no idea this was Esmond Knight, his presence threading this film to most of Powell and Pressburger)

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  • Scott Pearson @scottpearson.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 20, 2026

    Since recently Lawrence of Arabia was FINALLY made widely available in a reasonably priced 4K, my film fanatic thoughts turn to a movie that has yet to be released at all in 4K—Peckinpah’s epic The Wild Bunch. Come on, Warner Bros., do me a solid!

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  • Westerns & the Old West @davidlambertart.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 14, 2026

    Excerpt from W.K. Stratton's book "The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film"

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  • Beck Jones @beckjoneshere.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 21, 2026

    #botd in 1921, director Sam Peckinpah made violent movies and led a turbulent, sometimes violent life. His first breakthrough film, Ride the High Country, was a classical western, but of course, we all know him from The Wild Bunch. Classic western stars, but lots more violence. #moviesky #filmsky

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  • kentarogoto.bsky.social @kentarogoto.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 30, 2025

    I played airsoft game in the story of Sam Peckinpah’s film “The Wild Bunch “

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  • Westerns & the Old West @davidlambertart.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 1, 2026

    The Wild Bunch is basically the same story as 3 Bad Men, The 3 Godfathers, any given Bill Hart film, or, more pointedly, The Magnificent 7 (if it was honest). Peckinpah is asking what it would "actually" look like if truly bad men decided to sacrifice their lives for something beyond themselves...

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  • Dylan Davis @thatdylandavis.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 20, 2026

    nothing really pleases me more than a 4+ hour podcast from Mike and Rob on a great movie. #TheWildBunch @projectionbooth.bsky.social AND YOU KNOW there must be a Luis Buñuel reference. pca.st/8einumjw

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  • Martin Degrell @martindegrell.comBluesky · Aug 10, 2026

    A great film from each year of the 60s: 1960: Zazie dans le métro 1961: Blast of Silence 1962: The World’s Greatest Sinner 1963: Judex 1964: Culloden 1965: Le bonheur 1966: Seconds 1967: David Holzman’s Diary 1968: The Swimmer 1969: The Wild Bunch #FilmSky

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  • John Beaudine @beaudinetwin2.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 8, 2026

    Favorite film for each year of the 1960s: 1960: Rocco and His Brothers 1961: The Hustler 1962: Lawrence of Arabia 1963: The Great Escape 1964: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1965: The Pawnbroker 1966: Persona 1967: Le Samouraï 1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey 1969: The Wild Bunch What are yours? #Filmsky 📽️

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  • David 🎃👻🧟 @uniquely-david.bsky.socialBluesky · May 27, 2026

    Feeling majorly like a melding of Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch & Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid, I enjoyed The Long Riders The decision to cast actual acting brothers as real-life brothers might seem gimmicky, but it gives the film a more realistic, close-knit feel that this story requires #FilmSky

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  • Bill-a Lugosi's Dead @neokefka99.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 17, 2026

    Threw on THE WILD BUNCH. Still a top top favorite movie but man, I'm noticing there is *a lot* of obviously ADR'd in lines, character's speaking in wide shots when you can see their lips aren't moving. Not as bad as that one dude in ALFREDO GARCIA but does stick out once you notice it.

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  • Wilson @wilsonjettone.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 8, 2026

    I think Arthur Penn stands out as the odd directing nominee, particularly for that film, but it was his third nomination, so he was in the club. The big films that feel missing looking back from 2026 are probably The Wild Bunch, Easy Rider, and Downhill Racer. But I can understand why.

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  • AJ @robi1409.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 5, 2026

    #Septembermoviechallenge #Moviesky #Filmsky 09/05 Outlaw in a movie The Wild Bunch [1969]

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  • Isaac Land @coastalhistory.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 23, 2026

    I haven’t seen The Wild Bunch since college, but that Western came out in 1969. I feel like film this was trying to cash in on the new possibilities of ultra violent, nihilistic film making. #horrorwatch

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  • wadcorp @wadcorp.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 18, 2026

    “The Wild Bunch” released on this day in 1969. #movie #film #sampeckinpah

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  • Anita 🎬🎥📺🎶📚 @gemini53.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 18, 2026

    Yes! William Holden and Robert Ryan are great in The Wild Bunch. I love that movie!

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  • metacritic @metacritic.comBluesky · May 18, 2026

    Slow West [72] is also now on Netflix: www.metacritic.com/movie/slow-w... #11pmspecial "Imagine Terrence Malick directing the climax of The Wild Bunch, and you’re on the right track." - Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly

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  • Pete Dragovich @nerdofnoir.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 29, 2026

    I’m always thinking about THE WILD BUNCH, but this is the second time recently the film has come up in my thinking about MICHAEL MANN letterboxd.com/nerd_of_noir...

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  • Cecil Nyx @cecilnyx.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 16, 2026

    That movie surprised me so much. But I still give the edge of best gun fight to The Wild Bunch.

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  • Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 1, 2025

    Now rewatching THE WILD BUNCH, a movie released by Warner Brothers, a studio about to be sold to Netflix because movies will be replaced by AI slop in a few years so the owners need to cash in now. Which is odd, as there’s zero chance of AI ever creating anything like this (55 year old) movie

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  • mmrtn.bsky.social @mmrtn.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 18, 2025

    Corgis In The Movies: On this day in 1969, the Sam Peckinpah film "The Wild Bunch" premiered. #CorgisInTheMovies #CorgiFilmParody

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  • Mario Bava's A Jay of Blood @jaycoyle.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 24, 2024

    The Wild Bunch: The western peaked in 1969. A desolate, amoral film about clinging on to a code that an uncaring world is rapidly leaving behind. The Rushmore of great faces, that editing, that finale and just the pure flow of it. A film that gets sadder the older you watch it.

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  • Mario Bava's A Jay of Blood @jaycoyle.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 24, 2024

    #nowwatching The Wild Bunch.

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  • AngelsArcanum/NabariNoBro @angelsarcanum.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 11, 2026

    213. Straw Dogs (1971 film): if there was a whiff of edge to The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs is a “misunderstood” 13 year old writing in his diary edgy. Lanthimos-levels of misanthropic worldview fabrication & contrivance. Bogus, but a few subtle notes about masculine rituals of violence are neat. 4/10

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  • Milan Paurich @milanpaurich.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 20, 2026

    Noel Black only had one great movie in him, but "Pretty Poison" was a beaut. First saw it on the bottom half of a drive-in double bill with "The Wild Bunch" in July 1969. (I had just turned 11.)

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  • Steve Tallantyre @tallantyre.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 3, 2026

    If and when I get an early finish on a Friday, I watch a classic film that I have somehow managed to miss. Today was The Wild Bunch. I like early-finish Fridays. The other days of the week could really learn something from them.

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  • Willzebub Schlitz @wpschlitz.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 25, 2026

    boxd.it/eVW4zv Jimmy Steward, Janet Leigh, and “Thornton” from The Wild Bunch sold me on this week’s #zombiesteve52 movie.

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  • Frank Pozen Toronto, Canada @frankp316.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 17, 2026

    @willmckinley.bsky.social Music/movie birthday. Jerry Fielding 1922-1980. Composer was nominated for three Oscars including the films The Wild Bunch (1969), Straw Dogs (1971).

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  • Let's Party with Marty @letspartymarty.bsky.socialBluesky · May 8, 2026

    NEW EPISODE! This week we're joined by @nickflixpodcast.bsky.social to discuss 1969's The Wild Bunch ... a movie that apparently influenced every movie ever, including Martin Scorsese's Casino. LINKS: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

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  • Pedro Jimenez @pedropeterperico.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 23, 2026

    I always go back and forth as to what my favorite western is. Shane and The Wild Bunch are always battling it out. When I was a child my dad showed me this movie and I just went bananas for it.

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  • Anita 🎬🎥📺🎶📚 @gemini53.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 17, 2026

    #Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge April 17 - (another) movie character played by William Holden Pike Bishop - The Wild Bunch #filmsky #moviesky

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  • Ray Lavoie @proporhistorian.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 6, 2026

    I’ll depluralize it and keep it an actual movie. The Wild Bunch -> The Wild One

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  • Neil Snowdon @neilsnowdon.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 30, 2026

    Huh... Did you know that Jake Kasdan shot a pilot for a Zero Effect TV show, co-written by Walon Green (screenwriter of The Wild Bunch) and starring Alan Cumming in the Daryl Zero role that Bill Pullman played in the movie? Well, now you do!

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  • Steve Kopian @unseenfilms.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 30, 2026

    CONVOY was Sam Peckinpah's next to last film. Its a one of a kind film that needs a making of movie because its as weird as describing it as a film based on a silly song made by the guy who made the WILD BUNCH sounds www.unseenfilms.net/2021/01/conv...

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  • Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 16, 2026

    Best Film Editing: I predict F1. If I could do back and do it all again, I'd be a film editor. I love seeing how films move. My 5 best edited movies: Lawrence of Arabia, The Right Stuff, Day of the Jackal, The Wild Bunch, and The Quiet Man. #hatm

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  • Flazlo @fleezlow.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 10, 2026

    The Wild Bunch! %100 a "dudes suck" movie!

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  • Anita 🎬🎥📺🎶📚 @gemini53.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 24, 2026

    #Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge #EdwardsMovieCharacterChallenge2026 January 24 - movie character played by Ernest Borgnine Dutch - The Wild Bunch #filmsky #moviesky

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