William Austin

William Austin

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William Austin  (12 June 1884 – 15 June 1975) was a British character actor who was born on a sugar plantation in Georgetown in British Guiana (now Guyana). On the death of his father he was brought to England to complete his education. He later filled a business post in Shanghai and on being sent to San Francisco by the company he worked for, he decided to stay in America and take up acting on the stage and later in films. He appeared in many American films and serials between the 1920s and the 1940s, though the vast majority of his roles were small and uncredited. He was the brother of actor Albert Austin. He died in Newport Beach, California. Of the numerous silent films Austin appeared in, he is best remembered as the sidekick friend of Clara Bow in Bow's best known film It (1927). Mr. Austin's portrayal in the 1943 Batman serial of Batman's butler Alfred is the iconic portrayal still used in the comics. Previous to being played by Mr. Austin, the character was fat and had no facial hair. Performed by Mr. Austin, the character was thin with a mustache. Shortly after the serial was released, Alfred in the comics was changed to match the look of the serial; this representation of the character has for the most part continued to this day except for the live action films, the Birds of Prey series, and the Deadshot short in Batman: Gotham Knight where he has no moustache. Description above from the Wikipedia article William Austin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

  • Title: William Austin
  • Popularity: 3.331
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1884-06-10
  • Place of Birth: Georgetown, British Guiana [now Guyana]
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  • Also Known As: William Crosby Piercy Austin
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William Austin Movies

  • 1933
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    Alice in Wonderland

    Alice in Wonderland

    6.1 1933 HD

    In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.

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  • 1934
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    The Gay Divorcee

    The Gay Divorcee

    6.9 1934 HD

    Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. There she falls in love with dancer Guy Holden, whom...

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  • 1933
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    The Private Life of Henry VIII

    The Private Life of Henry VIII

    6.3 1933 HD

    Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of...

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  • 1946
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    Alias Mr. Twilight

    Alias Mr. Twilight

    5.1 1946 HD

    Geoffrey Holden (Lloyd Corrigan) is an elderly con-man who is a lovable old man when providing his beloved granddaughter (Gigi Perreau) with the...

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  • 1924
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    The Garden of Weeds

    The Garden of Weeds

    1 1924 HD

    The title refers to the estate owned by Flagg, a man of great wealth and few morals. He installs chorus girls there until he grows tired of them

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  • 1927
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    The World At Her Feet

    The World At Her Feet

    1 1927 HD

    In a reversal of the usual situation, it is the wife, not the husband, who is the neglectful one. As hubby sits at home twiddling his thumbs, Jane...

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  • 1925
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    The Best People

    The Best People

    1 1925 HD

    Bertie and Marian Lenox are children of a wealthy family, and their mother intends that they marry "within their class". They, however, have...

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  • 1932
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    County Hospital

    County Hospital

    6.807 1932 HD

    Ollie is in the hospital with a broken leg. When Stan comes to visit him, total chaos ensues.

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  • 1947
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    The Ghost Goes Wild

    The Ghost Goes Wild

    5 1947 HD

    Young artist Monte Crandell is being sued for an unauthorized caricature. To escape arrest, he disguises himself as a mystic, only to conjure up a...

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  • 1927
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    It

    It

    6.887 1927 HD

    A flapper shopgirl woos her rich boss with animal magnetism, otherwise known as "it."

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  • 1931
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    Corsair

    Corsair

    4.423 1931 HD

    A stock market broker plans to liven up his boring life by taking up piracy on the high seas.

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  • 1925
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    Seven Days

    Seven Days

    1 1925 HD

    Jim Wilson is separated from his wife Bella, so when his maiden Aunt Selina -- who thoroughly disapproves of divorce -- comes to visit, Wilson is...

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  • 1943
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    Batman

    Batman

    6.4 1943 HD

    Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American...

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  • 1937
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    Renfrew of the Royal Mounted

    Renfrew of the Royal Mounted

    4.3 1937 HD

    Counterfeit bills are being printed in Canada and shipped across the border hidden in blocks of ice. When the counterfeiters force engraver Bronson...

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  • 1923
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    Ruggles of Red Gap

    Ruggles of Red Gap

    1 1923 HD

    An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.

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  • 1930
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    Embarrassing Moments

    Embarrassing Moments

    1 1930 HD

    A couple meet, fall in love and get married in a 24-hour period.

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  • 1933
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    Three Men in a Boat

    Three Men in a Boat

    5 1933 HD

    An adaptation of Jerome K. Jerome’s classic story charting the comic misadventures of three friends – and a dog – as they take a...

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  • 1922
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    Handle with Care

    Handle with Care

    1 1922 HD

    Handle with Care is a 1922 silent comedy of marital complications and mix-ups.

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  • 1929
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    Sweetie

    Sweetie

    6 1929 HD

    Chorus girl Barbara Pell (Nancy Carroll) inherits a school for boys, and uses her position to sabotage the football career of the boy who jilted her.

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  • 1926
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    Fig Leaves

    Fig Leaves

    5.773 1926 HD

    Adam, a plumber, is happily married to Eve, a wardrobe-obsessed housewife, until she accidentally meets a supercilious fashion designer. At the...

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  • 1922
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    The Cowboy King

    The Cowboy King

    1 1922 HD

    "Hadley, owner of a nearby ranch, had fenced off a water hole belonging to Miss Dunlap, thus depriving her stock of water. Undaunted, the young...

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  • 1935
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    $1,000 a Minute

    $1,000 a Minute

    5.5 1935 HD

    Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Wally Jones can't spend $720,000 in twelve hours.

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  • 1939
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    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    6.844 1939 HD

    Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis,...

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  • 1937
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    Live, Love and Learn

    Live, Love and Learn

    5.8 1937 HD

    A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his...

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  • 1938
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    Doctor Rhythm

    Doctor Rhythm

    6 1938 HD

    Dr. Bill Remsen pretends to be a policeman, and ends up being assigned to guard Judy Marlowe. Amazingly, he falls in love with her.

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  • 1930
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    The Flirting Widow

    The Flirting Widow

    4 1930 HD

    An older daughter invents a fiancé so that her father will allow her younger sister to marry. However, the lie comes back to haunt her.

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  • 1928
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    Drums of Love

    Drums of Love

    5 1928 HD

    A princess is betrothed to a deformed monarch, but falls hard for his handsome brother.

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  • 1926
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    What Happened to Jones

    What Happened to Jones

    5.8 1926 HD

    On the night before his wedding, a young man plays poker with friends. When the game is raided by the police, he escapes into a Turkish bath on...

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  • 1930
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    Let's Go Native

    Let's Go Native

    7.5 1930 HD

    The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.

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  • 1935
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    The Goose and the Gander

    The Goose and the Gander

    4.6 1935 HD

    When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot...

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  • 1927
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    Duck Soup

    Duck Soup

    6.3 1927 HD

    Fleeing a group of forest rangers, who are rounding up tramps to serve as firefighters, they take refuge in a mansion. The owner has gone on vacation...

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  • 1935
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    Oil for the Lamps of China

    Oil for the Lamps of China

    7.3 1935 HD

    An American oil company representative almost sacrifices his marriage for his career.

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  • 1932
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    Rule 'Em and Weep

    Rule 'Em and Weep

    1 1932 HD

    King Bool returns to Bulvania to claim his throne and his girl.

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  • 1929
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    The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu

    The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu

    5.35 1929 HD

    A Chinese doctor vows revenge against the allied troops who killed his wife and child during the Boxer Rebellion.

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  • 1920
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    Common Sense

    Common Sense

    1 1920 HD

    Dan Bowers, embittered and disillusioned by an unhappy marriage, seeks solitude in the Maine woods, with a lame dog as his only companion. One day he...

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  • 1928
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    The Fifty-Fifty Girl

    The Fifty-Fifty Girl

    1 1928 HD

    Strong-willed Kathleen O'Hara, believes in equality of sexes, makes a pact with her sweetheart, Jim Donahue, when they become joint owners of a...

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  • 1927
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    Swim Girl, Swim

    Swim Girl, Swim

    1 1927 HD

    Serious university co-ed Alice Smith, is wholly engrossed, it would appear, in chasing butterflies and rare insects under the guidance of her friend,...

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  • 1925
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    Head Winds

    Head Winds

    5 1925 HD

    Peter kidnaps Patricia to prevent her from marrying the wrong man.

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  • 1928
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    Red Hair

    Red Hair

    1 1928 HD

    A free-spirited young girl has three middle-aged admirers, each of whom sees her from a completely different perspective. Unknown to her, they also...

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  • 1925
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    The Night Club

    The Night Club

    1 1925 HD

    After having been stood up at his own wedding, a young man vows that he will have nothing more to ever do with women. However, he soon discovers that...

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  • 1943
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    The Return of the Vampire

    The Return of the Vampire

    6 1943 HD

    In 1918, an English family is terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over, but German bombs in...

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  • 1931
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    A Tailor-Made Man

    A Tailor-Made Man

    1 1931 HD

    John Paul Bart is just a pants-presser in a tailor's shop, but he has big ambitions. One night, he borrows the clothes of a wealthy client and bluffs...

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  • 1932
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    High Society

    High Society

    1 1932 HD

    A British comedy film directed by John Rawlins

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  • 1945
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    National Velvet

    National Velvet

    7.2 1945 HD

    Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter,...

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  • 1935
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    Redheads on Parade

    Redheads on Parade

    1 1935 HD

    A film star finds herself in trouble with her co-star when she has to flirt with the backer to prevent him from withdrawing his support.

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  • 1928
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    Just Married

    Just Married

    1 1928 HD

    After many outrageous moments, a young girl marries her former acquaintance, not with her fiancee.

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  • 1929
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    Illusion

    Illusion

    1 1929 HD

    A vaudeville magician team is broken up when Carlee, an ex--circus performer, becomes infatuated with socialite Hilda Schmittlap. Meanwhile his...

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  • 1928
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    What a Night!

    What a Night!

    1 1928 HD

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  • 1924
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    The Reckless Age

    The Reckless Age

    5 1924 HD

    Lord Harrowby takes out an $100,000 insurance policy to be paid if his wedding to Cecilia Meyrick is cancelled. The insurance company sends Dick...

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  • 1926
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    The Flaming Forest

    The Flaming Forest

    1 1926 HD

    North-West Mounted Police Sgt. David Carrigan takes a breather from fighting as he brings a convict to trial and woos the lovely Jeanne-Marie.

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  • 1930
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    Along Came Youth

    Along Came Youth

    1 1930 HD

    An American sportsman stranded in London poses as a cook to remain close to the aristocratic lady he would woo.

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  • 1934
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    Imitation of Life

    Imitation of Life

    7 1934 HD

    A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face...

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  • 1945
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    Swingin' on a Rainbow

    Swingin' on a Rainbow

    1 1945 HD

    A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is passing them off as his own.

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  • 1941
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    Charley's Aunt

    Charley's Aunt

    5.8 1941 HD

    In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil--where the nuts come from.

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  • 1936
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    The Garden Murder Case

    The Garden Murder Case

    5.5 1936 HD

    Detective Philo Vance is in charge of the investigation of several mysterious murders. Things take a turn when he gathers evidence against Major...

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  • 1930
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    The Man from Blankley's

    The Man from Blankley's

    6 1930 HD

    When a nobleman loses his way in the fog and enters a house where there's a party going on, he's mistaken for a hired butler.

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  • 1929
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    The Marriage Playground

    The Marriage Playground

    5.8 1929 HD

    A delightful pre-code cocktail recipe. Take three couples (add gin and tonic), their several divorces and the seven children/stepchildren of their...

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  • 1930
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    The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu

    The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu

    5.038 1930 HD

    The sinister Dr. Fu Manchu returns to destroy the people he holds responsible for the death of his family.

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  • 1925
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    Who Cares

    Who Cares

    1 1925 HD

    Who Cares is a 1925 silent film produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures and starring Dorothy Devore. It is preserved in the Library of...

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  • 1948
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    Campus Sleuth

    Campus Sleuth

    1 1948 HD

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