John Milius

John Milius

John Frederick Milius is an American screenwriter, director, and producer of motion pictures. He was one of the writers for the first two Dirty Harry films, received an Academy Award nomination as screenwriter of Apocalypse Now, and wrote and directed The Wind and the Lion, Conan the Barbarian and Red Dawn. He wrote a number of iconic film lines such as "Charlie don't surf" and "I love the smell of napalm in the morning," from Apocalypse Now, and the famous Dirty Harry one-liners delivered by Clint Eastwood, including "Go ahead, make my day" and "Ask yourself one question, 'do I feel lucky?' Well, do you, punk?". Milius also wrote the USS Indianapolis monologue in the film Jaws; the sequence performed by Robert Shaw. After his work on Rough Riders (1997), Milius became an instrumental force in lobbying Congress to award President Theodore Roosevelt the Medal of Honor (posthumously), for acts of conspicuous gallantry while in combat on San Juan Hill. Milius made two films featuring Roosevelt: The Wind and the Lion (where he was played by Brian Keith) and the made-for-TV film Rough Riders (where Tom Berenger took the role). The character of John Milner from the 1973 George Lucas film American Graffiti was inspired by Milius, who was a good friend of Lucas while they were at USC film school. Likewise, the character Walter Sobchak in the 1998 film The Big Lebowski, made by his friends the Coen Brothers, was partly based on Milius. The novella "Blind Jozef Pronek and Dead Souls" by Aleksandar Hemon features an episode with Milius, who is described as "sitting at a desk sucking on a cigar as long as a walking stick." In 2013 a documentary about his life, titled Milius, was released. Writer Nat Segaloff called Milius: "The best writer of the so-called USC Mafia, a tight-knit group that resuscitated—some say homogenised American cinema in the 1970s... Raised on Ford, Hawks, Lean and Kurosawa, shaped by filmmakers as disparate as Fellini and Delmer Daves, Milius favours history books over comic books, character over special effects, and heroes with roots in reality, time, place and customs. Milius' stories reflect his own deeply held ethic, which embraces the values of tradition, adventure, spiritualism, honour and an intense loyalty to friends... Although he privately chafes at his public image as a gun-toting, liberal baiting provocateur, he allows himself to be painted as such, at times even holding the brush. He plays the Hollywood game like a pro, yet sticks to his own rules; he is a romantic filmmaker who avoids love scenes; his movies contain violence, yet no death in them is without meaning." Milius himself once said: "Never compromise excellence. To write for someone else is the biggest mistake that any writer makes. You should be your biggest competitor, your biggest critic, your biggest fan, because you don’t know what anybody else thinks. How arrogant it is to assume that you know the market, that you know what’s popular today [...] Write what you want to see. Because if you don’t, you’re not going to have any true passion in it, and it’s not going to be done with any true artistry."

  • Аталышы: John Milius
  • Популярдуулук: 4.147
  • Белгилүү: Writing
  • Туулган күн: 1944-04-11
  • Туулган жери: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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  • 2006
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    The Searchers: An Appreciation

    The Searchers: An Appreciation

    1 2006 HD

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  • 1998
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    A Turning of the Earth: John Ford, John Wayne and 'The Searchers'

    A Turning of the Earth: John Ford, John Wayne and 'The Searchers'

    1 1998 HD

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  • 1991
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    Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

    Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

    7.91 1991 HD

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  • 2008
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    Hollywood Gangster

    Hollywood Gangster

    1 2008 HD

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  • 2017
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    Made in Hollywood: Die Welt des Raoul Walsh

    Made in Hollywood: Die Welt des Raoul Walsh

    1 2017 HD

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  • 2003
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    Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

    Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

    7.085 2003 HD

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  • 2003
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    Frazetta: Painting with Fire

    Frazetta: Painting with Fire

    6.4 2003 HD

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  • 2002
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    Iron and Beyond

    Iron and Beyond

    5.3 2002 HD

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  • 2004
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    Riding Giants

    Riding Giants

    7.6 2004 HD

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  • 1999
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    Hell Hath No Fury: The Making of The Outlaw Josey Wales

    Hell Hath No Fury: The Making of The Outlaw Josey Wales

    7 1999 HD

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  • 2003
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    An Opera of Violence

    An Opera of Violence

    6 2003 HD

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  • 2000
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    Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'

    Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'

    6.667 2000 HD

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  • 1996
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    The Making of '1941'

    The Making of '1941'

    6.6 1996 HD

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  • 2013
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    Milius

    Milius

    7 2013 HD

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  • 1997
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    In the Teeth of Jaws

    In the Teeth of Jaws

    8 1997 HD

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  • 2004
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    A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope

    A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope

    7.5 2004 HD

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  • 2010
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    Jaws: The Inside Story

    Jaws: The Inside Story

    7.3 2010 HD

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  • 2001
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    Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul

    Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul

    6 2001 HD

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  • 2000
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    The Bridge on the River Kwai: An Appreciation by Filmmaker John Milius

    The Bridge on the River Kwai: An Appreciation by Filmmaker John Milius

    1 2000 HD

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  • 1982
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    Conan the Barbarian

    Conan the Barbarian

    6.8 1982 HD

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  • 1986
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    Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away

    Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away

    1 1986 HD

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  • 2003
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    Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'

    Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'

    6.5 2003 HD

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  • 1989
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    First Works

    First Works

    1 1989 HD

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  • 2019
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    Gladiateur, glaive et fantasmes

    Gladiateur, glaive et fantasmes

    7 2019 HD

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  • 2019
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    A Riddle of Steel: The Definitive History of Conan the Barbarian

    A Riddle of Steel: The Definitive History of Conan the Barbarian

    8.5 2019 HD

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  • 1972
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    Deadhead Miles

    Deadhead Miles

    5.4 1972 HD

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  • 2008
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    A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry

    A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry

    4.5 2008 HD

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  • 2001
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    Dirty Harry: The Original

    Dirty Harry: The Original

    7.375 2001 HD

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  • 2008
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    The Business End: Violence in Cinema

    The Business End: Violence in Cinema

    8 2008 HD

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  • 2003
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    The Wages of Sin

    The Wages of Sin

    7.4 2003 HD

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  • 1995
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    Shotgun Freeway

    Shotgun Freeway

    1 1995 HD

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  • 2008
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    The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry

    The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry

    5.8 2008 HD

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  • 1975
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    The Lion Roars Again

    The Lion Roars Again

    1 1975 HD

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  • 2008
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    The Evolution of Clint Eastwood

    The Evolution of Clint Eastwood

    7 2008 HD

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  • 2008
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    The Craft of Dirty Harry

    The Craft of Dirty Harry

    6 2008 HD

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  • 2003
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    Something to Do with Death

    Something to Do with Death

    6 2003 HD

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  • 1975
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    Crazy Mama

    Crazy Mama

    5.7 1975 HD

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  • 1984
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    Red Dawn

    Red Dawn

    6.281 1984 HD

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  • 1984
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    Red Dawn

    Red Dawn

    6.281 1984 HD

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  • 1973
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    Magnum Force

    Magnum Force

    7.115 1973 HD

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  • 1989
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    Farewell to the King

    Farewell to the King

    5.955 1989 HD

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  • 1989
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    Farewell to the King

    Farewell to the King

    5.955 1989 HD

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  • 1972
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    Jeremiah Johnson

    Jeremiah Johnson

    7.3 1972 HD

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  • 1994
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    Clear and Present Danger

    Clear and Present Danger

    6.643 1994 HD

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  • 1982
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    Conan the Barbarian

    Conan the Barbarian

    6.8 1982 HD

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  • 1982
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    Conan the Barbarian

    Conan the Barbarian

    6.8 1982 HD

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  • 1972
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    The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

    The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

    6.5 1972 HD

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  • 1973
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    Dillinger

    Dillinger

    6.5 1973 HD

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  • 1973
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    Dillinger

    Dillinger

    6.5 1973 HD

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  • 1983
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    Uncommon Valor

    Uncommon Valor

    6.2 1983 HD

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  • 1975
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    The Wind and the Lion

    The Wind and the Lion

    6.5 1975 HD

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  • 1975
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    The Wind and the Lion

    The Wind and the Lion

    6.5 1975 HD

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  • 1973
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    Marcello, I'm Bored

    Marcello, I'm Bored

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1978
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    Big Wednesday

    Big Wednesday

    6.9 1978 HD

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  • 1991
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    Flight of the Intruder

    Flight of the Intruder

    5.588 1991 HD

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  • 1971
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    Evel Knievel

    Evel Knievel

    4.9 1971 HD

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  • 1994
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    Motorcycle Gang

    Motorcycle Gang

    5 1994 HD

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  • 1987
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    Extreme Prejudice

    Extreme Prejudice

    6.176 1987 HD

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  • 1993
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    Geronimo: An American Legend

    Geronimo: An American Legend

    6.288 1993 HD

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  • 1993
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    Geronimo: An American Legend

    Geronimo: An American Legend

    6.288 1993 HD

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  • 1975
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    Melvin Purvis G-Man

    Melvin Purvis G-Man

    6.7 1975 HD

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  • 1975
    imgФильмдер

    Melvin Purvis G-Man

    Melvin Purvis G-Man

    6.7 1975 HD

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  • 1980
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    Used Cars

    Used Cars

    6.4 1980 HD

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  • 2015
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    The Lotus Gun

    The Lotus Gun

    1 2015 HD

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  • 1978
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    Big Wednesday

    Big Wednesday

    6.9 1978 HD

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  • 1970
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    The Conquest of Mexico

    The Conquest of Mexico

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1979
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    1941

    1941

    5.796 1979 HD

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  • 1969
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    The Devil's Eight

    The Devil's Eight

    5.1 1969 HD

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  • 1979
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    Hardcore

    Hardcore

    6.8 1979 HD

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  • 1979
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    Apocalypse Now

    Apocalypse Now

    8.3 1979 HD

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  • 1979
    imgФильмдер

    1941

    1941

    5.796 1979 HD

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  • 1967
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    The Emperor

    The Emperor

    6.6 1967 HD

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  • 1970
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    8.254 1970 HD

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  • 1970
    imgS2 E10

    8.254 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    7.7 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    6.1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
    imgS1 E2

    6.1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
    imgS1 E10

    10 1970 HD

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  • 1970
    imgS2 E10

    8.254 1970 HD

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  • 1970
    imgS1 E2

    6.1 1970 HD

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