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Dave Starsky

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114. Oh, hell, yes!

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Reply #26)

Fri Mar 16, 2018, 06:17 AM

Mar 2018

Bob Mitchum was amazing playing bad guys. That character thoroughly scares the shit out of you.

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