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American films released in 1962
A list of American films released in 1962.
Lawrence of Arabia won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance starring John Wayne and James Stewart.
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
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1962
Rank
|
Title
|
Studio
|
Gross
|
| 1.
|
Lawrence of Arabia
|
Columbia
|
$20,311,000
|
| 2. |
The Longest Day
|
20th Century Fox
|
$17,600,000
|
| 3. |
In Search of the Castaways
|
Disney
|
$9,975,000
|
| 4. |
The Music Man
|
Warner Brothers
|
$8,100,000
|
| 5. |
That Touch of Mink
|
Universal
|
$7,942,000
|
| 6. |
Mutiny on the Bounty
|
MGM
|
$7,410,000
|
| 7. |
To Kill a Mockingbird
|
Universal
|
$7,112,000
|
| 8. |
Hatari!
|
Paramount
|
$7,000,000
|
| 9. |
Gypsy
|
Warner Brothers
|
$6,000,000
|
| 10. |
Bon Voyage!
The Interns
|
Disney
Columbia
|
$5,000,000
|
source: https://web.archive.org/web/20080907071824/http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1962.shtml
| Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Note
|
| 13 West Street |
Philip Leacock |
Alan Ladd, Rod Steiger, Dolores Dorn |
Drama |
Columbia
|
| The 300 Spartans |
Rudolph Maté |
Richard Egan, Diane Baker |
Adventure |
Fox
|
| 40 Pounds of Trouble |
Norman Jewison |
Tony Curtis, Suzanne Pleshette, Phil Silvers |
Comedy |
Universal
|
| Advise & Consent |
Otto Preminger |
Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Walter Pidgeon |
Drama |
Columbia; from novel by Allen Drury
|
| Air Patrol |
Maury Dexter |
Willard Parker, Merry Anders, Robert Dix |
Drama |
20th Century Fox
|
| All Fall Down |
John Frankenheimer |
Eva Marie Saint, Warren Beatty |
Drama |
MGM
|
| Bachelor Flat |
Frank Tashlin |
Terry-Thomas, Tuesday Weld, Celeste Holm |
Comedy |
Fox
|
| Beauty and the Beast |
Edward L. Cahn |
Joyce Taylor, Mark Damon, Merry Anders |
Romance |
United Artists
|
| The Bellboy and the Playgirls |
Francis Ford Coppola, Fritz Umgelter |
June Wilkinson |
Comedy |
|
| Big Red |
Norman Tokar |
Walter Pidgeon, Janette Bertrand |
Family |
Disney
|
| Billy Rose's Jumbo |
Charles Walters |
Doris Day, Jimmy Durante, Stephen Boyd, Martha Raye |
Musical |
MGM
|
| Birdman of Alcatraz |
John Frankenheimer |
Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Telly Savalas |
Drama |
United Artists; four Oscar nominations
|
| Black Gold |
Leslie H. Martinson |
Diane McBain, Fay Spain, Philip Carey |
Adventure |
Warner Bros.
|
| Bon Voyage! |
James Neilson |
Fred MacMurray, Jane Wyman |
Family |
Disney
|
| Boys' Night Out |
Michael Gordon |
James Garner, Kim Novak, Tony Randall |
Comedy |
MGM
|
| The Brain That Wouldn't Die |
Joseph Green |
Jason Evers, Virginia Leith |
Science fiction |
A.I.P.
|
| The Broken Land |
John A. Bushelman |
Kent Taylor, Diana Darrin, Jody McCrea |
Western |
20th Century Fox
|
| Brushfire |
Jack Warner, Jr. |
John Ireland, Jo Morrow |
Drama |
Paramount
|
| Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Note
|
| The Cabinet of Caligari |
Roger Kay |
Glynis Johns, Dan O'Herlihy |
Horror |
20th Century Fox
|
| Cape Fear |
J. Lee Thompson |
Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck, Polly Bergen, Telly Savalas, Martin Balsam, Lori Martin, Barrie Chase |
Film noir |
Universal; remade in 1991
|
| The Captive City |
Joseph Anthony |
David Niven, Ben Gazzara, Martin Balsam, Lea Massari |
Drama |
A.I.P
|
| Carnival of Souls |
Herk Harvey |
Candace Hilligoss, Art Ellison |
Horror |
Harcourt Productions
|
| The Chapman Report |
George Cukor |
Shelley Winters, Jane Fonda, Claire Bloom |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
| Confessions of an Opium Eater |
Albert Zugsmith |
Vincent Price, Philip Ahn |
Crime |
Allied Artists
|
| Convicts 4 |
Millard Kaufman |
Ben Gazzara, Stuart Whitman, Sammy Davis Jr. |
Drama |
United Artists
|
| The Couch |
Owen Crump |
Grant Williams, Shirley Knight |
Horror |
Warner Bros.
|
| The Counterfeit Traitor |
George Seaton |
William Holden, Lilli Palmer, Hugh Griffith |
War |
Paramount
|
| The Creation of the Humanoids |
Wesley Barry |
Don Megowan, Dudley Manlove |
Science fiction |
|
| David and Lisa |
Frank Perry |
Keir Dullea, Janet Margolin |
Drama |
Vision Associates Productions; two Oscar nominations
|
| Days of Wine and Roses |
Blake Edwards |
Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Jack Klugman |
Drama |
Warner Bros.; Oscar for Best Song; five nominations
|
| Deadly Duo |
Reginald Le Borg |
Marcia Henderson, Irene Tedrow |
Drama |
United Artists
|
| Don't Knock the Twist |
Oscar Rudolph |
Chubby Checker, Lang Jeffries |
Musical |
Columbia
|
| Dr. No |
Terence Young |
Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman |
Spy |
United Artists
|
| Escape from East Berlin |
Robert Siodmak |
Don Murray, Christine Kaufmann, Werner Klemperer |
Drama |
MGM
|
| Escape from Zahrain |
Ronald Neame |
Yul Brynner, Sal Mineo, Jack Warden |
Adventure |
Paramount
|
| Experiment in Terror |
Blake Edwards |
Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers, Ross Martin |
Film noir |
Columbia
|
| FBI Code 98 |
Leslie H. Martinson |
Jack Kelly, Ray Danton |
Crime |
Warner Bros.
|
| The Firebrand |
Maury Dexter |
Kent Taylor, Valentin de Vargas, Lisa Montell |
Western |
20th Century Fox
|
| Five Finger Exercise |
Daniel Mann |
Rosalind Russell, Jack Hawkins |
Drama |
Columbia
|
| Five Miles to Midnight |
Anatole Litvak |
Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins |
Suspense |
United Artists
|
| Five Weeks in a Balloon |
Irwin Allen |
Red Buttons, Barbara Eden |
Adventure |
20th Century Fox
|
| Follow That Dream |
Gordon Douglas |
Elvis Presley, Anne Helm, Arthur O'Connell, Joanna Moore, Simon Oakland, Roland Winters |
Musical |
United Artists
|
| The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
Vincente Minnelli |
Glenn Ford, Lee J. Cobb, Charles Boyer |
Drama |
MGM
|
| Freud: The Secret Passion |
John Huston |
Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks |
Biography |
Universal
|
| Gay Purr-ee |
Abe Levitow |
(voices of) Judy Garland, Robert Goulet, Red Buttons |
Animated Musical |
Warner Bros.
|
| Geronimo |
Arnold Laven |
Chuck Connors, Kamala Devi |
Western |
United Artists
|
| Gigot |
Gene Kelly |
Jackie Gleason |
Comedy |
Fox
|
| A Girl Named Tamiko |
John Sturges |
Laurence Harvey, France Nuyen |
Drama |
Paramount
|
| Girls! Girls! Girls! |
Norman Taurog |
Elvis Presley, Stella Stevens, Laurel Goodwin |
Musical |
Paramount
|
| Gypsy |
Mervyn LeRoy |
Rosalind Russell, Karl Malden, Natalie Wood |
Musical |
Warner Bros.; story of Gypsy Rose Lee; Golden Globe for Russell
|
| Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Note
|
| Hand of Death |
Gene Nelson |
John Agar, Paula Raymond |
Horror |
20th Century Fox
|
| Hands of a Stranger |
Newt Arnold |
Paul Lukather, Joan Harvey |
Horror |
Allied Artists
|
| Hatari! |
Howard Hawks |
John Wayne, Red Buttons, Elsa Martinelli |
Action, Comedy |
Paramount
|
| Heaven and Earth Magic |
Harry Everett Smith |
|
Animated |
|
| Hell Is for Heroes |
Don Siegel |
Steve McQueen, Fess Parker, James Coburn, Bobby Darin |
War |
Paramount
|
| Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man |
Martin Ritt |
Richard Beymer, Diane Baker, Corinne Calvet |
Drama |
20th Century Fox
|
| Hero's Island |
Leslie Stevens |
James Mason, Rip Torn |
Adventure |
United Artists
|
| Hitler |
Stuart Heisler |
Richard Basehart, Maria Emo, Cordula Trantow |
Biopic |
Allied Artists
|
| The Horizontal Lieutenant |
Richard Thorpe |
Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Jack Carter, Miyoshi Umeki |
Comedy |
MGM
|
| House of Women |
Crane Wilbur |
Shirley Knight, Andrew Duggan, Constance Ford |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
| How the West Was Won |
John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall |
James Stewart, Debbie Reynolds, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden |
Western |
MGM; nominated for 8 Academy Awards
|
| If a Man Answers |
Henry Levin |
Bobby Darin, Sandra Dee, Cesar Romero |
Comedy |
Universal
|
| In Search of the Castaways |
Robert Stevenson |
Hayley Mills, Maurice Chevalier, George Sanders |
Family |
Disney
|
| Incident in an Alley |
Edward L. Cahn |
Harp McGuire, Virginia Christine |
Crime |
United Artists
|
| The Inspector |
Philip Dunne |
Stephen Boyd, Dolores Hart, Leo McKern |
Drama |
20th Century Fox
|
| The Interns |
David Swift |
Cliff Robertson, Stefanie Powers, Telly Savalas, Michael Callan |
Drama |
Columbia; sequel in 1964
|
| The Intruder |
Roger Corman |
William Shatner, Beverly Lunsford |
Drama |
Filmgroup
|
| Invasion of the Star Creatures |
Bruno VeSota |
Frank Ray Perilli, Gloria Victor |
Comedy |
American International Pictures
|
| I Thank a Fool |
Robert Stevens |
Susan Hayward, Peter Finch |
Drama |
MGM
|
| It Happened In Athens |
Andrew Marton |
Jayne Mansfield, Trax Colton |
Comedy |
Fox
|
| It's Only Money |
Frank Tashlin |
Jerry Lewis, Zachary Scott, Joan O'Brien |
Comedy |
Paramount
|
| Jack the Giant Killer |
Nathan H. Juran |
Kerwin Mathews, Torin Thatcher |
Fantasy |
United Artists
|
| Jessica |
Jean Negulesco |
Angie Dickinson, Maurice Chevalier, Sylva Koscina, Agnes Moorehead |
Drama |
United Artists; filmed in Italy
|
| Journey to the Seventh Planet |
Sidney W. Pink |
John Agar, Greta Thyssen |
Science Fiction |
American International Pictures
|
| Kid Galahad |
Phil Karlson |
Elvis Presley, Gig Young, Lola Albright, Charles Bronson, Joan Blackman, Edward Asner |
Musical |
United Artists; remake of 1937 film
|
| Lad, A Dog |
Leslie H. Martinson, Aram Avakian |
Peter Breck, Peggy McCay, Carroll O'Connor |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
| Light in the Piazza |
Guy Green |
Olivia de Havilland, Rossano Brazzi, Barry Sullivan, Yvette Mimieux |
Drama |
MGM; from novel by Elizabeth Spencer
|
| The Lion |
Jack Cardiff |
William Holden, Trevor Howard |
Drama |
20th Century Fox; filmed in Kenya
|
| Lolita |
Stanley Kubrick |
James Mason, Sue Lyon, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers |
Drama |
MGM; from Vladimir Nabokov novel
|
| Lonely Are the Brave |
David Miller |
Kirk Douglas, Walter Matthau, Gena Rowlands, Carroll O'Connor |
Western |
Universal; screenplay by Dalton Trumbo
|
| Long Day's Journey Into Night |
Sidney Lumet |
Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards, Dean Stockwell |
Drama |
Embassy; based on Eugene O'Neill play
|
| The Longest Day |
Ken Annakin |
John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Richard Burton |
War drama |
Fox; nominated for 5 Academy Awards
|
| The Magic Sword |
Bert I. Gordon |
Basil Rathbone, Estelle Winwood, Anne Helm |
Fantasy |
United Artists
|
| The Main Attraction |
Daniel Petrie |
Pat Boone, Nancy Kwan |
Drama |
MGM
|
| The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance |
John Ford |
James Stewart, John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Vera Miles |
Western |
Paramount; Academy Award nomination for Costume Design
|
| The Manchurian Candidate |
John Frankenheimer |
Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, James Gregory, Henry Silva, John McGiver |
Drama |
United Artists; Richard Condon novel; Golden Globe for Lansbury; remade in 2004
|
| The Manster |
George Breakston |
Peter Dyneley, Tetsu Nakamura, Terri Zimmern, Jane Hylton |
Horror |
U.S./Japan
|
| Mermaids of Tiburon |
John Lamb |
George Rowe, Diane Webber |
Fantasy |
Filmgroup
|
| Merrill's Marauders |
Samuel Fuller |
Jeff Chandler, Ty Hardin, Claude Akins |
War |
Warner Bros.
|
| The Miracle Worker |
Arthur Penn |
Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory |
Drama |
United Artists; Helen Keller bio; Oscars for Bancroft and Duke
|
| Moon Pilot |
James Neilson |
Tom Tryon, Edmond O'Brien, Dany Saval |
Comedy |
Disney
|
| Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation |
Henry Koster |
James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Fabian, Reginald Gardiner, Marie Wilson, John McGiver |
Comedy |
Fox
|
| The Music Man |
Morton DaCosta |
Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Ron Howard |
Musical |
Warner Bros.; from Meredith Willson play; five Oscar nominations; Remake of 2003 film
|
| Mutiny on the Bounty |
Lewis Milestone |
Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris, Richard Haydn, Hugh Griffith |
Adventure |
MGM; remake of 1935 film; seven Oscar nominations
|
| My Geisha |
Jack Cardiff |
Shirley MacLaine, Yves Montand, Edward G. Robinson |
Comedy |
Paramount
|
| Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Note
|
| Night of Evil |
Richard Galbreath |
Lisa Gaye, William Campbell |
Drama |
Astor Pictures
|
| No Exit |
Tad Danielewski |
Viveca Lindfors, Rita Gam |
Drama |
American/Argentinian coproduction; based on Sartre play
|
| No Man Is an Island |
Richard Goldstone |
Jeffrey Hunter |
Drama |
Universal
|
| The Notorious Landlady |
Richard Quine |
Jack Lemmon, Kim Novak, Fred Astaire |
Comedy |
Columbia
|
| The Nun and the Sergeant |
Franklin Adreon |
Robert Webber, Anna Sten |
War |
United Artists
|
| Panic in Year Zero! |
Ray Milland |
Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, Frankie Avalon |
Sci-Fi |
A.I.P.
|
| Paradise Alley |
Hugo Haas |
Hugo Haas, Carol Morris, Marie Windsor |
Comedy Drama |
Astor Pictures
|
| Period of Adjustment |
George Roy Hill |
Jane Fonda, Tony Franciosa, Jim Hutton |
Comedy |
MGM; from Tennessee Williams play
|
| Phaedra |
Jules Dassin |
Melina Mercouri, Anthony Perkins, Raf Vallone |
Drama |
American/French/Greek coproduction
|
| The Pigeon That Took Rome |
Melville Shavelson |
Charlton Heston, Elsa Martinelli, Harry Guardino |
Comedy |
Paramount
|
| Premature Burial |
Roger Corman |
Ray Milland, Hazel Court, Alan Napier |
Horror |
A.I.P.
|
| Pressure Point |
Hubert Cornfield |
Sidney Poitier, Bobby Darin, Peter Falk |
Drama |
United Artists
|
| The Reluctant Saint |
Edward Dmytryk |
Maximilian Schell, Ricardo Montalbán |
Drama |
|
| Requiem for a Heavyweight |
Ralph Nelson |
Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, Julie Harris |
Sports, Drama |
Columbia; written by Rod Serling
|
| Ride the High Country |
Sam Peckinpah |
Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott, Mariette Hartley, James Drury, Warren Oates, R. G. Armstrong, L. Q. Jones |
Western |
MGM; Scott's final film
|
| Rider on a Dead Horse |
Herbert L. Strock |
John Vivyan, Bruce Gordon, Kevin Hagen |
Western |
Allied Artists
|
| The Ring of Terror |
Clark L. Paylow |
|
Horror |
|
| The Road to Hong Kong |
Norman Panama |
Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Joan Collins |
Comedy |
United Artists; final Road picture
|
| Rome Adventure |
Delmer Daves |
Angie Dickinson, Troy Donahue, Suzanne Pleshette |
Romance |
Warner Bros.
|
| Safe at Home! |
Walter Doniger |
Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, William Frawley |
Family |
Columbia
|
| Saintly Sinners |
Jean Yarbrough |
Don Beddoe, Ellen Corby |
Comedy Drama |
United Artists
|
| Samar |
George Montgomery |
Gilbert Roland, Ziva Rodann |
Adventure |
Warner Bros.
|
| Satan in High Heels |
Jerald Intrator |
Grayson Hall, Meg Myles |
Drama |
|
| Satan Never Sleeps |
Leo McCarey |
William Holden, Clifton Webb, France Nuyen |
Drama |
20th Century Fox
|
| Secret File: Hollywood |
Rudolph Cusumano |
Robert Clarke, Francine York |
Crime |
Crown International Pictures
|
| Sergeants 3 |
John Sturges |
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop |
Western |
United Artists; Rat Pack
|
| Six Black Horses |
Harry Keller |
Audie Murphy, Joan O'Brien |
Western |
Universal
|
| Something's Got to Give |
George Cukor |
Marilyn Monroe, Dean Martin |
Comedy |
Unfinished
|
| The Spiral Road |
Robert Mulligan |
Rock Hudson, Gena Rowlands, Burl Ives, Neva Patterson |
Adventure |
Universal; based on Jan de Hartog novel
|
| Stagecoach to Dancers' Rock |
Earl Bellamy |
Martin Landau, Warren Stevens, Judy Dan |
Western |
20th Century Fox
|
| Stark Fear |
Ned Hochman |
Skip Homeier, Beverly Garland |
Thriller |
Independent
|
| State Fair |
José Ferrer |
Tom Ewell, Pat Boone, Pamela Tiffin, Ann-Margret, Alice Faye, Bobby Darin |
Musical |
20th Century Fox; remake of 1933, 1945 films
|
| Sweet Bird of Youth |
Richard Brooks |
Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Ed Begley, Rip Torn, Mildred Dunnock, Shirley Knight |
Drama |
MGM; from Tennessee Williams play; Oscar for Begley
|
| Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Note
|
| Tales of Terror |
Roger Corman |
Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone |
Horror |
American International Pictures; anthology
|
| Taras Bulba |
J. Lee Thompson |
Yul Brynner, Tony Curtis, Sam Wanamaker, Christine Kaufmann, Brad Dexter |
Adventure |
United Artists
|
| Tarzan Goes to India |
John Guillermin |
Jock Mahoney |
Adventure |
MGM/UK
|
| Tender Is the Night |
Henry King |
Jennifer Jones, Joan Fontaine, Jason Robards |
Drama |
20th Century Fox; from F. Scott Fitzgerald novel; King's final film
|
| That Touch of Mink |
Delbert Mann |
Cary Grant, Doris Day, Gig Young, Audrey Meadows, John Astin |
Comedy |
Universal
|
| The Three Stooges Meet Hercules |
Edward Bernds |
The Three Stooges, Vicki Trickett |
Comedy |
Columbia
|
| The Three Stooges in Orbit |
Edward Bernds |
The Three Stooges |
Comedy |
Columbia
|
| To Kill a Mockingbird |
Robert Mulligan |
Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, Robert Duvall, Brock Peters, William Windom, Frank Overton, Paul Fix |
Drama |
Universal; based on novel by Harper Lee; nominated for eight Oscars
|
| Tonight for Sure |
Francis Ford Coppola |
Karl Schanzer |
Western |
|
| Tower of London |
Roger Corman |
Vincent Price |
Horror |
United Artists; remake of 1939 film
|
| Trauma |
Robert M. Young |
John Conte, Lynn Bari |
Horror |
Parade Releasing Organization
|
| Two for the Seesaw |
Robert Wise |
Robert Mitchum, Shirley MacLaine |
Drama |
United Artists; from William Gibson play
|
| Two Tickets to Paris |
Greg Garrison |
Joey Dee, Gary Crosby, Kay Medford |
Musical |
Columbia
|
| Two Weeks in Another Town |
Vincente Minnelli |
Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, Cyd Charisse, Claire Trevor, George Hamilton |
Drama |
MGM
|
| The Underwater City |
Frank McDonald |
William Lundigan, Julie Adams |
Science fiction |
Columbia
|
| Walk on the Wild Side |
Edward Dmytryk |
Jane Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck, Laurence Harvey, Capucine |
Drama |
Columbia; based on Nelson Algren novel
|
| War Hunt |
Denis Sanders |
John Saxon, Charles Aidman, Robert Redford |
War |
United Artists
|
| What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? |
Robert Aldrich |
Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono |
Thriller |
Warner Bros.; five Oscar nominations
|
| When the Girls Take Over |
Russell Hayden |
Marvin Miller, Jackie Coogan |
Comedy |
|
| Who's Got the Action? |
Daniel Mann |
Dean Martin, Lana Turner, Walter Matthau |
Comedy |
Paramount
|
| Wild Guitar |
Ray Dennis Steckler |
Arch Hall Jr. |
Musical |
|
| The Wild Westerners |
Oscar Rudolph |
James Philbrook, Nancy Kovack, Duane Eddy, Guy Mitchell |
Western |
Columbia
|
| Womanhunt |
Maury Dexter |
Lisa Lu, Berry Kroeger |
Crime |
20th Century Fox
|
| The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm |
Henry Levin |
Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Barbara Eden |
Biography |
MGM; four Oscar nominations
|
| The World's Greatest Sinner |
Timothy Carey |
|
Drama |
Never released
|
| Young Guns of Texas |
Maury Dexter |
James Mitchum, Jody McCrea |
Western |
20th Century Fox
|
| Zotz! |
William Castle |
Tom Poston, Jim Backus, Margaret Dumont |
Comedy |
Columbia
|
 American films of the 1960s |
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