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Walleye

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10. The movie from "All Quiet on the Western Front" turned out to be so antiwar,

Sat Jul 29, 2023, 11:29 AM

Jul 2023

One of my favorite movies by the way, that Hollywood was obliged to make some really gung ho war movies at the beginning of World War II

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