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* EiffelTowerEffect: How do we know that the museum being robbed is in Paris? By a shot of the Eiffel Tower right before the cut to the museum, of course.

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* EiffelTowerEffect: How do we know that the museum being robbed is in Paris? By a shot of the Eiffel Tower right before the cut to the museum, of course. Justified as the museum where it takes place, the ''Musée de l'Homme'', was at the time[[note]]Most of its collections have been moved to the ''Musée des Arts Premiers'' in the early 2000's[[/note]] indeed close to the Eiffel Tower, standing on the other side of the Seine river.
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* HypnotizeThePrincess: Agnes's captors drug her so that she appears to follow them willingly, and she sleepily says she does not recognises Adrien when he catches up to them.
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Many consider the film to be one of the inspirations for the Franchise/IndianaJones franchise. It turns out this was a film Philippe de Broca made out of frustration of not being able to adapt the ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' comic books on film, as it contains truckloads of similar adventures and situations.

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Many consider the film to be one of the inspirations for the Franchise/IndianaJones franchise. It turns out this was a film Philippe de Broca made out of frustration of not being able to adapt the ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' comic books on film, as it contains truckloads of similar adventures and situations.
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Many consider the film to be one of the inspirations for the Franchise/IndianaJones franchise. It turns out this was a film Philippe de Broca made out of frustration of not being able to adapt Franchise/{{Tintin}} on film, as it contains truckloads of similar adventures and situations.

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Many consider the film to be one of the inspirations for the Franchise/IndianaJones franchise. It turns out this was a film Philippe de Broca made out of frustration of not being able to adapt Franchise/{{Tintin}} the ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' comic books on film, as it contains truckloads of similar adventures and situations.
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Many consider the film to be one of the inspirations for the Franchise/IndianaJones franchise.

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Many consider the film to be one of the inspirations for the Franchise/IndianaJones franchise. It turns out this was a film Philippe de Broca made out of frustration of not being able to adapt Franchise/{{Tintin}} on film, as it contains truckloads of similar adventures and situations.

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''That Man from Rio'' (''L'homme de Rio'') is a 1964 French action-adventure farce directed by Philippe de Broca and starring Creator/JeanPaulBelmondo and Creator/FrancoiseDorleac. The movie provides one thrill after another as Adrien Dufourquet (Belmondo) alternately chases or is pursued by the villains. Many consider the movie to be one of the inspirations for the Indiana Jones movies.

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''That Man from Rio'' (''L'homme de Rio'') is a 1964 French action-adventure farce directed by Philippe de Broca and starring Creator/JeanPaulBelmondo and Creator/FrancoiseDorleac. The movie provides one thrill after another as Adrien Dufourquet (Belmondo) alternately chases or is pursued by the villains. Many consider the movie to be one of the inspirations for the Indiana Jones movies.\n


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''That Man from Rio'' is a 1964 French action-adventure farce starring Creator/JeanPaulBelmondo and Creator/FrancoiseDorleac. The movie provides one thrill after another as Adrien Dufourquet (Belmondo) alternately chases or is pursued by the villains. Many consider the movie to be one of the inspirations for the Indiana Jones movies.

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''That Man from Rio'' (''L'homme de Rio'') is a 1964 French action-adventure farce directed by Philippe de Broca and starring Creator/JeanPaulBelmondo and Creator/FrancoiseDorleac. The movie provides one thrill after another as Adrien Dufourquet (Belmondo) alternately chases or is pursued by the villains. Many consider the movie to be one of the inspirations for the Indiana Jones movies.



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''That Man from Rio'' (1964) is a French action-adventure farce starring Creator/JeanPaulBelmondo. The movie provides one thrill after another as Adrien Dufourquet (Belmondo) alternately chases or is pursued by the villains. Many consider the movie to be one of the inspirations for the Indiana Jones movies.

The film begins in Paris where a ancient statuette is stolen from a museum, and Professor Catalan, an expert on the statuette, is kidnapped. Menawhile, Airman Adrien Dufourquet is beginning a week's leave to visit his girlfriend, Agnes, whose father was a colleague of Catalan, and who had a Maltec statuette of his own, its location known only to Agnes. Agnes is soon kidnapped as well, and Adrien gives chase to the captors, leading him to Rio, Brasilia, and the Amazon jungle, with adventure and fun at every turn.

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''That Man from Rio'' (1964) is a 1964 French action-adventure farce starring Creator/JeanPaulBelmondo.Creator/JeanPaulBelmondo and Creator/FrancoiseDorleac. The movie provides one thrill after another as Adrien Dufourquet (Belmondo) alternately chases or is pursued by the villains. Many consider the movie to be one of the inspirations for the Indiana Jones movies.

The film begins in Paris where a ancient statuette is stolen from a museum, and Professor Catalan, an expert on the statuette, is kidnapped. Menawhile, Airman Adrien Dufourquet is beginning a week's leave to visit his girlfriend, Agnes, Agnes (Dorléac), whose father was a colleague of Catalan, and who had a Maltec statuette of his own, its location known only to Agnes. Agnes is soon kidnapped as well, and Adrien gives chase to the captors, leading him to Rio, Brasilia, and the Amazon jungle, with adventure and fun at every turn.
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* CantGetInTroubleForNothin: Adrian rescues his girlfriend Agnes when she's abducted in Paris and spirited away to Rio, where she drags him into an adventure with one hair's-breadth situation after another. As they're driving to Brasilia in their underwear (getting caught in a fierce storm shortly before) he has enough and pulls into a police station. He turns himself in, running off a list of offenses -- entering their country without a passport, using a plane ticket he stole from an old pensioner, getting into fights with several people, including policemen, indecently dressed, and driving a stolen car -- but as he speaks French the policeman doesn't understand a word. Adrian throws his hands up and exclaims "Nothing -- just Rio and Brasilia!" and the policeman cheerfully points the way. Back on the road he mutters "I should take up crime!"

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* CantGetInTroubleForNothin: CantGetInTroubleForNuthin: Adrian rescues his girlfriend Agnes when she's abducted in Paris and spirited away to Rio, where she drags him into an adventure with one hair's-breadth situation after another. As they're driving to Brasilia in their underwear (getting caught in a fierce storm shortly before) he has enough and pulls into a police station. He turns himself in, running off a list of offenses -- entering their country without a passport, using a plane ticket he stole from an old pensioner, getting into fights with several people, including policemen, indecently dressed, and driving a stolen car -- but as he speaks French the policeman doesn't understand a word. Adrian throws his hands up and exclaims "Nothing -- just Rio and Brasilia!" and the policeman cheerfully points the way. Back on the road he mutters "I should take up crime!"
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* DurableDeathtrap: Subverted. Catalan lifts up the hidden panel and sees what appears to be an innumerable amount of glimmering diamonds and jewels below. The whole cave then starts to rumble, there are a series of explosions, and Catalan is eventually killed when the cave collapses. Is it a DurableDeathtrap that still works centuries after it was made by a pre-Columbian {{Mayincatec}} society? Nope, it's damage caused by a road construction project plowing through the rain forest.
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* GilliganCut: The heroes are in need of transport. Agnes says "We'll need a car!" Winston asks, "What color?" After doing an obvious mental eye roll over the pointlessness of this question, Adrien snarks, "Rose colored with green stars!" Next moment, they're in a roadster -- rose colored with green stars.
* GoldFever: The ultimate motive. Catalan murdered both of his old partners in search of his ultimate goal, a lost treasure hoard.



* HangingOurClothesToDry: Adrian and Agnes are driving from Rio to Brasilia in an open roadster - at night they're caught in a drenching storm unable to put the top up. Next morning they're on the road in their underwear, clothes drying on a makeshift line. By this point Adrian has had enough of this adventure he's been dragged into, and stops at a police station to turn himself in.



* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: Adrian pursues Agnes's kidnappers by light plane deep into the Amazon. The bad guys set down on the river in their seaplane, but he has nowhere to land. He bails out, and ends up in a forest, dangling just above the water, a hungry crocodile waiting below.
* ParachuteInATree: Adrien has to ditch a plane over the Amazon jungle and parachutes down - getting stuck in a tree and dangling just above a hungry crocodile in the swamp.
* PerfectPoison: Begins with a thief stealing an ancient Mesoamerican statuette in a museum, killing a guard instantly with a poison-dart pistol. The police initially suspect cardiac arrest before the dart is discovered.
* PoisonedWeapons: Opens with a museum robbery, where the crook kills a guard with a poison dart gun. It initially looks like heart failure to the police, but the museum head notes the poison is a common weapon of the vanished Mesoamerican culture that made the stolen artifact. Later, after a poison dart from a bad guy thuds into a sign right above Adrien's head, he flops over and fakes death, and the bad guy leaves.



* SceneryPorn: There is some nice photography of Paris at the beginning, but the scenery in several different settings in Brazil is what really qualifies.

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* SceneryPorn: There is some nice photography of Paris at the beginning, but the scenery in several different settings in Brazil is what really qualifies.qualifies.
* ShoeShineMister: Adrian chases his girlfriend and her kidnappers from Paris to Rio de Janeiro. As he's lost them and is at loose ends, a street kid--"Sir Winston"--comes up and shines his shoes. Adrian has no money, so he shines the kid's shoes in return. They befriend each other, and Sir Winston turns out to be pretty resourceful, saving Adrian in a couple of dangerous situations.
* ShovelStrike: Adrian faces off against a huge mook, trying to smack him with a shovel - but the mook easily dodges it before grabbing it and snapping it in two.
* TagalongKid: Adrian, pursuing his kidnapped girlfriend to Rio, is befriended by Sir Winston, a young street kid who saves Adrian's hide a couple of times.
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* AnswerCut: "Where's Catalan?", says Adrien. Cut to Catalan in the cave, setting up the statues to reveal where the treasure is.
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* EveryCarIsAPinto
** Every Boat Is A Pinto in the scene where a mook in a speedboat who is trying to kill Adrien doesn't notice that he's heading for rocks. Just to make it sillier, the shot shows the mook yelling as he is blown clear of the explosion.
** More traditionally with a car, in the scene where Adrian pulls Catalan out of a car right before the car slides off a cliff.
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* CantGetInTroubleForNothin: Adrian rescues his girlfriend Agnes when she's abducted in Paris and spirited away to Rio, where she drags him into an adventure with one hair's-breadth situation after another. As they're driving to Brasilia in their underwear (getting caught in a fierce storm shortly before) he has enough and pulls into a police station. He turns himself in, running off a list of offenses -- entering their country without a passport, using a plane ticket he stole from an old pensioner, getting into fights with several people, including policemen, indecently dressed, and driving a stolen car -- but as he speaks French the policeman doesn't understand a word. Adrian throws his hands up and exclaims "Nothing -- just Rio and Brasilia!" and the policeman cheerfully points the way. Back on the road he mutters "I should take up crime!"


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* FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit: South American version. As Adrian is shining a shoeshine kid's shoes (not having any money for the kid doing his) -- a fat guy in white brushes the kid aside to get his own shoes done. Adrian polishes his white shoes black, and, of course, he can't see his own shoes.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Professor Catalan, a mousy, academic archaeologist who is kidnapped by folks who had just stolen a Mesoamerican statue which is the key to a vast treasure. The protagonists rescue him around mid-film, unaware that he'd staged his own kidnapping and is after the treasure himself, along the way, murdering a former colleague and abducting a young lady he had been a surrogate 'favorite uncle' to.
* BreakTheFake: Three Mesoamerican statuettes are keys to an ancient treasure, and two have been stolen. Archaeologist Catalan visits his old partner, industrialist De Castro to make sure the third in his possession is safe. He quickly pronounces it a fake, and De Castro congratulates his perception, hurling it to the floor, assuring him the real one is safely hidden.
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* GroinAttack: Adrien's attempt at a judo chop to the neck of a mook fails completely, but a kick to the nuts does the job.


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* KidSidekick: "Sir Winston", a young Brazilian boot black who meets Adrien soon after Adrien's arrival in Brazil, and becomes his sidekick. He's quite helpful, like when he fetches an army of his grownup friends to protect Adrien from the mooks.
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* {{Mayincatec}}: Literally. The ancient civilization that made the statuette is a South American people called the "Maltecs".

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* CollapsingLair: What happens when [[spoiler:Catalan finally discovers the treasure.]]

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* CollapsingLair: What happens when [[spoiler:Catalan Catalan finally discovers the treasure.]]



* EiffelTowerEffect: How do we know that the museum being robbed is in Paris? By a shot of the Eiffel Tower right before the cut to the museum, of course.



* MadeOfIron: [[spoiler:Catalan's]] mooks. When Adrien tries to physically fight them, he is no match, but he is often able to escape by outsmarting them.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Catalan]] is the villain.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Adrien becomes frustrated when Agnes seems relatively unconcerned about having been kidnapped or about getting to the bottom of what is happening. Agnes still trusts [[spoiler:Catalan]] and leaves a party with him while Adrien is trying to figure out who is behind the kidnappings and murders.

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* MadeOfIron: [[spoiler:Catalan's]] Catalan's mooks. When Adrien tries to physically fight them, he is no match, but he is often able to escape by outsmarting them.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Catalan]] Catalan is the villain.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Adrien becomes frustrated when Agnes seems relatively unconcerned about having been kidnapped or about getting to the bottom of what is happening. Agnes still trusts [[spoiler:Catalan]] Catalan and leaves a party with him while Adrien is trying to figure out who is behind the kidnappings and murders.

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That Man From Rio (1964) is a French action-adventure farce starring Jean-Paul Belmondo. The movie provides one thrill after another as Adrien Dufourquet (Belmondo) alternately chases or is pursued by the villains. Many consider the movie to be one of the inspirations for the Indiana Jones movies.

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* MadeOfIron: [[Spoiler:Catalan's]] mooks. When Adrien tries to physically fight them, he is no match, but he is often able to escape by outsmarting them.

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* MadeOfIron: [[Spoiler:Catalan's]] [[spoiler:Catalan's]] mooks. When Adrien tries to physically fight them, he is no match, but he is often able to escape by outsmarting them.
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* MadeOfIron: [[Spoiler: Catalan's]] mooks. When Adrien tries to physically fight them, he is no match, but he is often able to escape by outsmarting them.

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* MadeOfIron: [[Spoiler: Catalan's]] [[Spoiler:Catalan's]] mooks. When Adrien tries to physically fight them, he is no match, but he is often able to escape by outsmarting them.
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* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Catalan]] is the villain.
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* HollywoodSkydiving: Adrien bails out from an airplane and barely manages to get his parachute open.


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* ClothingDamage: By the time Adrien parachutes into the jungle, his clothes have been almost entirely ripped apart. Fortunately, he is rescued by a Frenchman who outfits him with some new clothes.
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* ChekhovsSkill: Being in the air force comes in handy when the only way for Adrien to pursue Agnes is via plane. Also, his military training, in general, have made Adrien pretty savvy, agile, and strong. Still, the amount of outrageous situations he escapes from could still qualify him as an ActionSurvivor.

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* ChekhovsSkill: Being in the air force comes in handy when the only way for Adrien to pursue Agnes is via plane. Also, his military training, in general, have has made Adrien pretty savvy, agile, and strong. Still, the amount of outrageous situations he escapes from could still qualify him as an ActionSurvivor.
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* ChekhovsSkill: Being in the air force comes in handy when the only way for Adrien to pursue Agnes is via plane. Also, his military training, in general, have made Adrien pretty savvy, agile, and strong. Still, the amount of outrageous situations he escapes from could still qualify him as an ActionSurvivor.


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* IndyPloy: Adrien chases Agnes and her captors around the globe and all over Brazil but never thinks more than one step ahead. Only once he is on the plane does he realize he is going to Rio!
* MacGuffin: The Maltec statuettes
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* Collapsing Lair: What happens when [[spoiler:Catalan finally discovers the treasure.]]
* Gory Discretion Shot: When Adrien kills a henchman by rolling a boulder over him, we only see Adrien's disconcerted face.

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* Collapsing Lair: CollapsingLair: What happens when [[spoiler:Catalan finally discovers the treasure.]]
* Gory Discretion Shot: GoryDiscretionShot: When Adrien kills a henchman by rolling a boulder over him, we only see Adrien's disconcerted face.

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* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Adrien becomes frustrated when Agnes seems relatively unconcerned about having been kidnapped or about getting to the bottom of what is happening. Agnes still trusts [[spoiler:Catalan]] and leaves a party with him while Adrien is trying to figure out who is behind the kidnappings and murders.

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* BarBrawl: Adrien accidentally starts one at Lola's bar and then uses the ensuing chaos to escape.
* Collapsing Lair: What happens when [[spoiler:Catalan finally discovers the treasure.]]
* Gory Discretion Shot: When Adrien kills a henchman by rolling a boulder over him, we only see Adrien's disconcerted face.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Adrien becomes frustrated when Agnes seems relatively unconcerned about having been kidnapped or about getting to the bottom of what is happening. Agnes still trusts [[spoiler:Catalan]] and leaves a party with him while Adrien is trying to figure out who is behind the kidnappings and murders.murders.
* SceneryPorn: There is some nice photography of Paris at the beginning, but the scenery in several different settings in Brazil is what really qualifies.

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That Man From Rio (1964) is a French action-adventure farce starring Jean-Paul Belmondo. The movie provides one thrill after another as Dufourquet (Belmondo) alternately chases or is pursued by the villains. Many consider the movie to be one of the inspirations for the Indiana Jones movies.

The film begins in Paris where a ancient statuette is stolen from a museum, and Professor Catalan, an expert on the statuette, is kidnapped. Menawhile, Airman Dufourquet is beginning a week's leave to visit his girlfriend, Agnes, whose father was a colleague of Catalan, and who had a Maltec statuette of his own, its location known only to Agnes. Agnes is soon kidnapped as well, and Dufourquet gives chase to the captors, leading him to Rio, Brasilia, and the Amazon jungle, with adventure and fun at every turn.

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That Man From Rio (1964) is a French action-adventure farce starring Jean-Paul Belmondo. The movie provides one thrill after another as Adrien Dufourquet (Belmondo) alternately chases or is pursued by the villains. Many consider the movie to be one of the inspirations for the Indiana Jones movies.

The film begins in Paris where a ancient statuette is stolen from a museum, and Professor Catalan, an expert on the statuette, is kidnapped. Menawhile, Airman Adrien Dufourquet is beginning a week's leave to visit his girlfriend, Agnes, whose father was a colleague of Catalan, and who had a Maltec statuette of his own, its location known only to Agnes. Agnes is soon kidnapped as well, and Dufourquet Adrien gives chase to the captors, leading him to Rio, Brasilia, and the Amazon jungle, with adventure and fun at every turn.turn.

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* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Adrien becomes frustrated when Agnes seems relatively unconcerned about having been kidnapped or about getting to the bottom of what is happening. Agnes still trusts [[spoiler:Catalan]] and leaves a party with him while Adrien is trying to figure out who is behind the kidnappings and murders.
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That Man From Rio (1964) is a French action-adventure farce starring Jean-Paul Belmondo. The movie provides one thrill after another as Dufourquet (Belmondo) alternately chases or is pursued by the villains. Many consider the movie to be one of the inspirations for the Indiana Jones movies.

The film begins in Paris where a ancient statuette is stolen from a museum, and Professor Catalan, an expert on the statuette, is kidnapped. Menawhile, Airman Dufourquet is beginning a week's leave to visit his girlfriend, Agnes, whose father was a colleague of Catalan, and who had a Maltec statuette of his own, its location known only to Agnes. Agnes is soon kidnapped as well, and Dufourquet gives chase to the captors, leading him to Rio, Brasilia, and the Amazon jungle, with adventure and fun at every turn.

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