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La Honte de la famille (1969)
Character: Etouvant
On the day of his marriage, the son of a Marseille king declares to his family that he wishes to engage in the police.
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Les trois cousines (1947)
Character: Claude
To receive the inheritance of his uncle, who died in Brazil, Claude, who has no money, must absolutely marry one of his three cousins.
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Vacances payées (1938)
Character: N/A
Prosper, the accountant of a fashion house, takes a vacation to Monte Carlo without his wife Sabine. And if he goes alone it is for a very good reason: he has a rendezvous with Olga, a beautiful woman. Once in Monte Carlo, he wins a large sum of money at the casino. Unfortunately for him he immediately becomes the prey of three gangsters who proceed to relieve him of his newly acquired fortune.
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Le Mistral (1943)
Character: Charles
In a small Provençal port, a young girl tries to divert a fisherman from his laborious life and his chaste loves.
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Madame et son flirt (1946)
Character: Gérard Sauvaget
To take revenge on her husband with whom she often has heated discussions, a young woman looks for a flirt, to whom she makes life difficult, without giving him anything, because she is still in love with her husband.
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Toine (1933)
Character: N/A
Jean, the son of Toine, a market gardener from Marseille, would marry Ginette without hesitation if he did not meet a singer, a femme fatale. But his godfather intervenes in time and unmasks the seductress who had already caused his own ruin. Jean only has to ask Ginette for forgiveness.
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Les Dégourdis de la 11e (1937)
Character: The sergeant
A colonel decided to be represented at the regiment festival of a tragedy in verse by the poem written by his sister.
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Vacances explosives (1957)
Character: Joe Ravello dit Monsieur Jo
Arlette thinks she has made a wonderful gift to her daughter Sylvie, who has just married François Morel, a young journalist. And, to tell the truth, not everybody receives a posh little bar like the Royal Montmartre as a gift. The trouble is that Monsieur Jo, the former owner of the joint is also the boss of a gang of drug traffickers. And that he has managed to persuade the pair of naive lovebirds to drop a painting to a friend on their way to their honeymoon place. Now the picture is stuffed with drugs! The honeymoon trip promises to be eventful...
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Le Dompteur (1938)
Character: Bertrand
A very shy person inherits a traveling circus on the express condition that he manages to present a number on the ring.
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Une idée à l'eau (1940)
Character: Second screenwriter
Three screenwriters try to write a comedy about a young first man who must conquer a rich billionaire on a desert island.
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C'est arrivé à 36 chandelles (1957)
Character: Self (uncredited)
Rejecting the union of her daughter Brigitte with a modest worker, Madame Magnin invents an adultery for the lover, then introduces Brigitte to a good-looking man working on the famous RTF entertainment show 36 Chandelles. The show ultimately seals the reunion of the two estranged young lovers. The story features a parade of music-hall stars from the era: Charles Trenet, Charles Aznavour, Georges Guétary, Juliette Gréco, Roger Pierre and Jean-Marc Thibault, Fernand Raynaud, Georges Ulmer and many more.
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Interpol contre X (1960)
Character: Mathias
A cabaret is used as a cover for drug trafficking, but the police are unable to uncover the means used to smuggle the opium. It turns out that one of the accomplices is repatriating the bodies of her compatriots who have died abroad and smuggling the drugs. A race is waged between the police and the culprits: the law triumphs.
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L'Affaire du courrier de Lyon (1937)
Character: The lawyer of Lesurques
A courier carrying a large sum of money intended for Bonaparte's army is attacked. A miscarriage of justice will lead an innocent person to the guillotine.
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Parade en 7 nuits (1941)
Character: Tonin, the seducer
In the pound, Pipo the dog recounts his adventures to his fellow inmates.
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Fou d'amour (1943)
Character: Ulysse
Claude, who temporarily replaces his father at the head of a department store, falls in love at first sight with a pretty female customer. He finds out that she is named Solange and that she is the goddaughter of Professor Hauteclerc, who runs a private psychiatric hospital. To come closer to the girl of his dreams, Claude has a crazy idea: he pretends to be mad so as to be placed in Hauteclerc's institution.
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Paris clandestin (1957)
Character: Max
In the elegant nightclub of Corsican Luciano, known as Lucky, "Les Naturistes", big sums are gambled at the Longchamp races. Lucky not only "welcomes" the new dancers, he also collects the stakes entrusted to him and personally plays the horses recommended to him by Max, a former convict. But Bramati, Lucky's ex-partner, doesn't forgive Max for double-crossing him and has him shot.
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La Femme en rouge (1947)
Character: The leader of the gangsters
Two paintings are stolen. Amateur private detective Roland Gautier investigates.
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Les promesses dangereuses (1956)
Character: N/A
Philippe Marcillac grew up in Sète, where he specialized in pranks of dubious taste. One day, as a teenager, he organizes a party in an abandoned villa. Philipe finds himself alone with Marie-Titite, who advises him to restart his life on a more serious footing.
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La Marseillaise (1938)
Character: Honoré Arnaud
A film about the early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of the citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course, the king Louis XVI, each showing their own small problems.
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Honoré de Marseille (1956)
Character: Pastèque, le mécanicien
As he explains to the journalist who came to interview him, Honoré cultivates, as a perfect Marseillais, farnienté and galéjade. He evokes the Phocaean Protis, who founded the city of Marseille, and the Roman Honorius, who invented pétanque. He loves to go fishing with his friends Garrigue and Watermelon to prepare a good bouillabaisse, and even more, to rig the results of a vote to allow a little protégée to be crowned Miss flots bleus.
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L'Héroïque monsieur Boniface (1949)
Character: Charlie
A simple man gets involved in an implausible story of gangsters in the wake of the discovery of a criminal's dead body in his own bed.
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Barnabé (1938)
Character: André Dubreuil
Barnabé, an occasional flutist, goes to Mme Petit-Durand to organize her daughter's 20 years. But he is confused with the Count of Marengo whom Mme Petit-Durand wants to give as husband to her daughter, who has already made her choice.
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Si Paris nous était conté (1956)
Character: Paulus
Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's history.
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L'Étrange Monsieur Victor (1938)
Character: Robert Cerani
Outwardly, Monsieur Victor would appear to be the model citizen. A respectable Toulon shopkeeper, he has a devoted wife and is courteous and considerate to all who know him. However, beneath this veneer of respectability hides a notorious receiver of stolen goods, who trades with hardened criminals. Victor manages to keep up his double life without any difficulty until the fateful day when one of his partners in crime threatens to expose him. Fearing a scandal, Victor kills the crook in a moment of panic, using a shoemaker's tool. Naturally, the murder is blamed on a local shoemaker, who is sentenced to ten years' hard labour. Seven years later, the former shoemaker reappears in Toulon, having escaped from prison. The first person to recognise him is Monsieur Victor...
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La Bonne Étoile (1943)
Character: Maurice Carissol
Auguste, a somewhat simple-minded Provençal fisherman, loves and admires Mireille. This concerns only Maurice, son of an important wholesaler, whom scruples do not stifle. Seduced and abandoned, Mireille moves Auguste who tries to mend his poor happiness. The local priest, with wise words, leads Mireille to offer her hand to Auguste.
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Le Mouton à cinq pattes (1954)
Character: Un marin
A publicity-minded French mayor reunites quintuplets and their earthy father, all six played by Fernandel.
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Un carnet de bal (1937)
Character: Paul
After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him instead of the man towards whom, in her youth, she had a stronger inclination. To overcome these dreary thoughts, she decides to find out about him and the other men who danced with her during a ball that was a turning point in her life, many years ago. She pays a visit to those forgotten acquaintances one after the other; Christine is not only surprised to see how they have fared, but also discovers the impact she had, unknowingly, on the feelings and the destiny of these persons.
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Boniface somnambule (1951)
Character: Charlie, le chef des gangsters
Victor Boniface's life is not exactly a rest cure. Just imagine: Victor is both a store detective and a ... shoplifter (only when he walks in his sleep, mind you)! And falling in love while sleepwalking is no bed of roses either, as the good-natured man simply forgets everything after waking up. Fortunately love wins the game in the end. Does that mean that life will become as easy as pie ? Certainly not: the little Bonifaces will be sleepwalkers just like their daddy!
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Fric-Frac (1939)
Character: Petit-Louis
An employee at a jewelry store falls in love with a woman who secretly plans to rob the store.
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L'entraîneuse (1939)
Character: Marcel
The young Suzy is a nightclub hostess in a cabaret in which Frehel is the star. Because one night she gets propositions from a rich widower who would like to have her as his girlfriend, Suzy wishes to leave this place, where she has no future, for a better one. Abandoned by her protector, a young hoodlum named Robert, she gets the occasion to get away from it. She decides to go on vacation on the Riviera and stay at the Chateau des Cedres, the former residence of a noble family that has been transformed into a bourgeois guest house by the baroness Saint-Leu. Shy and elegant, in her modest suit, Suzy stays there under the name of Suzanne Michelet and soon makes new friends among the young people of very wealthy families.
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Charles et Lucie (1979)
Character: Le patron du bar 'Quand même' (uncredited)
An old and poor couple, Charles and Lucie, scrape by working as a concierge and an untalented antique dealer, respectively. But one day, their dreary daily routine is disrupted by the surprising news that they have inherited a luxurious house in the South of France.
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La Table-aux-Crevés (1951)
Character: Frédéric Gari, contrebandier et frère de Jeanne
In a small village, a farmer discovers his wife has committed suicide, but suspicions of murder arise, dividing the community. Amidst the conflict, he develops feelings for a young woman who is the sister of a man harboring a personal grudge against him.
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Josette (1937)
Character: Lucien le journaliste
Albert Durandal is unable to keep a job for more than a few days. The reason: he hums while working, which invariably irritates his superiors. He is not hired as a singer for all that, as no music producer is prepared to bet on him. At the moment he is as free as a (singing) bird and accepts to take care of Josette, the little daughter of Jeanne, his neighbor, who is sick and has to go to a sanitarium. One day, while walking down the street, he helps an old man who has an attack. The latter happens to be an influential millionaire. And with a heart of gold into the bargain : he helps Albert to make it in the singing career. And as Jeanne has recovered, he can marry her and adopt Josette.
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Gribouille (1937)
Character: Robert
Camille Morestan serves as a jury member at a court in Paris. The attractive Natalie Roguin is accused of murder. Morestan doesn't want to believe she really killed her lover. He succeeds in convincing the other jury members she was innocent. After her acquittal he takes her into his house. While he tries to keep her identity a secret for his family her presence leads to a number of unfortunate incidents.
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L'Aîné des Ferchaux (1963)
Character: M. Andrei
Young boxer Michel Maudet is sacked by his manager after a series of match defeats and is forced to look for a new job. He is engaged as secretary to a millionaire named Ferchaux who is in a hurry to flee the country when he discovers he has been implicated in a high-profile fraud.
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Toni (1935)
Character: Gaby
In the 1920s, the Provence is a magnet for immigrants seeking work in the quarries or in the agriculture. Many mingle with locals and settle down permanently - like Toni, an Italian who has moved in with Marie, a Frenchwoman. Even a well-ordered existence is not immune from boredom, friendship, love, or enmity, and Toni gets entangled in a web of increasingly passionate relationships. For there is his best pal Fernand, but also Albert, his overbearing foreman; there is Sebastian, a steady Spanish peasant, but also Gabi, his young rogue relative; there is Marie, but there is also Josefa.
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Angèle (1934)
Character: Louis, le mauvais garçon
Angèle is a 1934 French drama film directed, produced and written by Marcel Pagnol. It stars Orane Demazis as a naive young woman who is seduced and abandoned. It is based on the novel Un de Baumugnes by Jean Giono.
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La Cuisine au beurre (1963)
Character: Pelletan
After thirteen years in Germany, Fernand is coming back to his wife and his restaurant. But since his disparition, his wife as made her life with a norman chef, sympathetic but a specialist of butter's cooking when Fernand cook only with oil!
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Hôtel du Nord (1938)
Character: Kenel
A young couple's suicide pact goes awry, leaving the woman to face her survival with a new admirer while pining for her lost love.
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Ignace (1937)
Character: Serge de Montroc
Ignace Boitaclou, although sympathetic, is not very intelligent. Upon his arrival at the barracks to perform his military service, he was appointed colonel and had to take care of the latter's terrible wife.
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Les Bleus de la marine (1934)
Character: Le lieutenant
Lafraise and Plumard, two rookies on the ship Le Victorieux, are on leave in the port of Toulon. At a time they get lost and in order to escape the Navy patrolmen, they disguise themselves and board a train. Now it happens that in the convoy a delegate of the government is on his way to Paris, with the mission to inaugurate a monument there. But the circumstances are such that our two friends are mistaken for the Minister and his secretary. Unabashed, the pair does the job, in other words, they deliver the expected speech, eat like horses, live it up - until they are recognized. Which eventually results in a prolonged stay in an unpleasant kind of hotel room named - the hold.
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Manon (1949)
Character: Smuggler
Port of Marseille, France, recently liberated from the German yoke. Caught as stowaways aboard a ship, Manon, a young woman who was accused of collaborating with the Nazis, and Robert, a freedom fighter who saved her from reprisals, tell the captain about the many challenges they have had to face in order to survive.
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Simplet (1942)
Character: Rascasse
A simpleton turns out to be the lucky charm of a village.
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Circonstances atténuantes (1939)
Character: 'Môme de Dieu' (Kid of God)
Harsh Parisian judge Gaetan (known as Monsieur Maximum), chafing in the idleness of retirement, leaves for a seaside holiday. But Gabriel the chauffeur has his mind on his girl, not the car; Gaetan and wife Nathalie are stranded in the country, where they find shelter in a low class bistro patronized by cheerful jail birds. Once the ice is broken, they have a wonderful time, but as the judge tries to trick his new friends into reforming, inevitable exposure approaches...
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Les Cinq Sous de Lavarède (1939)
Character: Jim Strong
Some try to travel around the world with a time constraint, but Lavarède has to perform an even harder task than Phineas Fogg. His assignment is to go around the globe with a mere five cents coin. Worse, he can't even spend it or else he will not come into the money of his inheritance. To make sure Lavarède plays by the rules of the game, two supervisors stick to him like a shadow. Will the young man meet this unbelievable challenge?
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Un chapeau de paille d'Italie (1941)
Character: Achille de Rosalba
Fadinard is going through the woods on his horse en route to his wedding. Unfortunately, his horse eats the straw hat of a married woman who is having a secret rendezvous with her lover. In order to save the woman's honor, Fadinard must find the exact same type of hat to replace the one his horse ate and still be able to get to his wedding on time.
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Cocagne (1961)
Character: Amédée
As the driver of a garbage truck in Arles, Marc-Antoine leads a quiet life with his wife, Mélanie, and their two children. When Amédée's "Fanny" is stolen from the bouliste club, Marc-Antoine offers to repaint another one. As soon as the work is finished, he becomes a local celebrity and, intoxicated by his new-found fame, leaves his family to go with Hélène, the young waitress, to his friend Septime's house in the Camargue to take up painting. Eventually, Marc-Antoine realizes that he is dissatisfied and that his success seems dishonest. He realizes that happiness awaits him with his wife, children and friends, and resumes his simple life without remorse.
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Le printemps, l'automne et l'amour (1955)
Character: Blancard, le chef de gare
Fernand Sarrazin, who runs a nougat factory to perfection, is a happy bachelor, notwithstanding the acrimonious presence of his sister-in-law Julie. Love enters his life in the form of a young orphan, Cécilia, whom he saves from drowning, falls in love with and marries. The treacherous Julie uses a young pianist to lead Cecilia astray. She returns, however, repentant, after a short stay in Paris. Good Fernand forgives her, but when he learns of his sister-in-law's actions, he chases her out of his house.
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Cap Canaille (1983)
Character: Pascal Andreucci
Directors Jean-Henri Roger and Juliet Berto begin this thriller with sequences on the contemporary politics of southern France and the infiltration of organised crime into real estate development there: crime bosses were torching forest tracts to make way for their development schemes in the early 1980s. In the fictionalised story, Paula Barretto is caught in this underworld because her father was involved in the drug business, her brother is in the real estate scam, and her lover is an armed thief. Although she tries to get out of her corrupt and dangerous environment, it is not an easy task when even the police officers cannot be trusted, and the underworld has informants everywhere.
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Quatre jours à Paris (1955)
Character: Le brigadier
Mario, a star ladies' hairdresser, has Nicolas as a friend and Gisèle as his mistress, who is coveted by Nicolas. To boost the salon's finances, Nicolas takes advantage of a billionaire, Madame Alvarez, by selling her a pseudo-rejuvenation serum invented by Mario. Mario suddenly falls in love with a provincial girl, Gabrielle, and pursues her to the South of France, where everyone meets up to finish the film in song.
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Le Club des soupirants (1941)
Character: Maxime
As playboys cannot pay their debts anymore,their creditors suggest one of them marry a millionaire's daughter.
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Uniformes et grandes manœuvres (1950)
Character: André Duroc, reveler
André Duroc pretends to be a duke in order to extort money from Aunt Solange. But his trickery is discovered, he must flee and, thanks to a uniform, takes part in the great maneuvers.
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La Bourse et la Vie (1966)
Character: Le chef de convoi
Pétepan learns that his money has been lost by Robinhoude brothers.He asks his assistants to withdraw his amount from the bank.
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Era di venerdì 17 (1956)
Character: N/A
The Provence, somewhere in the 1950's. Paul Verdier, traveling salesman, leaves his home and his quarrelsome wife for his weekly round. On the train he meets a young woman, Marie, who looks a little lost. No wonder. Marie is pregnant but lacks the customary husband. She's returning to her village but is not exactly looking forward to the confrontation with her parents and the villagers, all pretty conservative people. After getting to know Paul a little better (for which there is ample time during the trip by train and bus) Marie decides to ask Paul to act as her husband, just to allay the suspicions of her family. After some hesitating Paul accepts, charmed by the girl and unaware of the complications such is bound to cause to his own life.
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Les Petits Riens (1942)
Character: Mesnard
Following a broadcast on the radio, each of the listeners remembers these "little nothings" (the title is borrowed from a play by Mozart), which have often changed their lives. Each of these stories told will prove that a tiny detail in life can change an entire destiny.
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Derrière la façade (1939)
Character: André Laurent, bank cashier, lover of Madeleine
In the elevator of two large Parisian buildings, a telegraph operator discovers the body of an elderly woman, Madame Mathieu, the owner of both buildings. Boucheron, the local superintendent, is dispatched to investigate, along with his rival, Inspector Lambert of the "Sûreté". To solve the enigma, they scour staircases and corridors, visiting every floor of both buildings, courtyard and facade. Their gruff rivalry allows them to complement each other in discovering who committed the crime among a gallery of characters, humble or rich, who all have something to be ashamed of... A rare, fast-paced, picturesque comedy set against the backdrop of a police mystery.
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Adhémar ou le jouet de la fatalité (1951)
Character: Tisalé, l'ami d'Adhémar
Is it because his father was a groom that Adhémar Pomme has a long horse head and a horse- toothed smile? Maybe but the fact is that his head has invariably caused laughter whatever the circumstances, which is the tragedy of his life. After having worked as an undertaker, a theater prompter, a casino bouncer, and so on, and failing at each job, he applies out of desperation to an institution where those rejected for physical reasons can hide and live together. But Adhémar immediately starts... laughing at them and gets kicked out as a result! In the end though, he finds his way as a circus artist.
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