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Friday, August 10, 2007

Hitchcock Collection - The man who knew too much (1956) - James Stewart, Doris Day

Rating 7.5/10
Runtime: 120 min
Language: English/Arabic/French
Country: USA
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0049470/

Cast

James Stewart ... Dr. Ben McKenna
Doris Day ... Josephine Conway McKenna
Christopher Olsen ... Hank McKenna
Brenda De Banzie ... Lucy Drayton
Bernard Miles ... Edward Drayton
Ralph Truman ... Buchanan
Daniel Gélin ... Louis Bernard
Mogens Wieth ... Ambassador
Alan Mowbray ... Val Parnell
Hillary Brooke ... Jan Peterson

Description: Dr. Ben McKenna, his wife Josephine and their son Hank are on a touring holiday of Africa when they meet the mysterious Louis Bernard on a bus. The next day Bernard is murdered in the local marketplace, but before he dies he manages to reveal details of an assassination, which is being masterminded by the Draytons, an English couple they have met in a restaurant, and is due to take place in London in a few days' time. Fearing that their plot will be revealed, the assassins kidnap Hank in order to keep the McKenna's silent. Ben and Jo go to London and take matters into their own hands.

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CD 1

CD 2
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CD 1

http://rapidshare.com/files/285930326/1956_-_The_man_too_much_CD1.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/285936511/1956_-_The_man_too_much_CD1.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/285935580/1956_-_The_man_too_much_CD1.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/285936460/1956_-_The_man_too_much_CD1.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/285930992/1956_-_The_man_too_much_CD1.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/285933851/1956_-_The_man_too_much_CD1.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/285928301/1956_-_The_man_too_much_CD1.part7.rar

CD 2

http://rapidshare.com/files/285931319/1956_-_The_man_too_much_CD2.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/285933600/1956_-_The_man_too_much_CD2.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/285929534/1956_-_The_man_too_much_CD2.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/285930106/1956_-_The_man_too_much_CD2.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/285935674/1956_-_The_man_too_much_CD2.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/285931403/1956_-_The_man_too_much_CD2.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/285935197/1956_-_The_man_too_much_CD2.part7.rar

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Thursday, August 9, 2007

Hitchcock Collection - Lifeboat (1944)

Rating 7.9/10
Runtime: 97 min
Language: English/German
Country: USA
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0037017/

Cast

Tallulah Bankhead ... Constance 'Connie' Porter
William Bendix ... Gus Smith
Walter Slezak ... Willy
Mary Anderson ... Alice MacKenzie
John Hodiak ... John Kovac
Henry Hull ... Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse
Heather Angel ... Mrs.Higley
Hume Cronyn ... Stanley 'Sparks' Garrett
Canada Lee ... George 'Joe' Spencer

Description: In a lifeboat during World War II, survivors from the freighter torpedoed by a U-boat huddle together including columnist Constance Porter (Tallulah Bankhead), the ship's engineer Kovac (John Hodiak), radio operator Stanley Garrett (Hume Cronyn), nurse Alice MacKenzie (Mary Anderson), millionaire Charles 'Ritt' Rittenouse (Henry Hull), seaman Gus Smith (William Bendix), steward Joe (Canada Lee), and Mrs. Higgins (Heather Angel), a hysterical Englishwoman holding her dead baby. After the baby is buried at sea, the mother drowns herself. Though the inhabitants of the lifeboat come from vastly different backgrounds, they quickly set aside the social and economic differences that divide them in a united effort to survive. A German seaman Willi (Walter Slezak) is picked up out of the sea and Constane interprets for him. Willi suggests in German the direction toward Bermuda. During a crisis, he shouts at them in English. He was the U-boat commander. Willi has a compass and is strong enough to row them to a German supply ship The others allow him to take command of the boat, their only hope of survival is to be rescued by a German supply ship, which will presumably take them straight to a concentration camp

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http://rapidshare.com/files/332782022/Life_b.part02.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/332792168/Life_b.part03.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/332802444/Life_b.part04.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/332814216/Life_b.part05.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/332826363/Life_b.part06.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/333221002/Life_b.part07.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/333232005/Life_b.part08.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/333242770/Life_b.part09.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/333253300/Life_b.part10.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/333264006/Life_b.part11.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/333270402/Life_b.part12.rar

Audio and video information:

Video : 1.06 GB, 1563 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 640*464 (4:3), XVID = XVID Mpeg-4
Audio : 41 MB, 60 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = Lame MP3,

Subtitles (English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Greek, Czech) + sample (10 MB)

http://rapidshare.com/files/333544399/L_b_subs_sample.rar

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DUAL AUDIO TRACK

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the second is commentary from movie historician. You can useVLC Player to easily choose between any of audio tracks or you can use VirtualDub to get rid of any of audio tracks by following these steps:

1. Download Virtualdub from that WWW address:

http://www.virtualdub.org/download.html

2. Download your version, unzip the files, start the program by running VirtualDub.exe

3. From "File" tab choose "Open video file" and find your dual audio file on your HDD (or you can simply drag and drop movie file into program window)

4. If any warining window pops up, just click on "OK"

5. From "Video" tab choose "Direct stream copy" option (very important, do not miss that step)

6. From "Audio" tab choose which audio stream you want to use, usually English is Stream 1, and commentary is on Stream 2, but to be 100 % sure use preview option that VD provides by clicking on "Play" button on the butttom of program window when video file is loaded. Of course you can get rid of original audio and save the file with commentary that way too, just by choosing other stream

7. From "File" tab choose "Save AVI file", put movie name and choose destination folder and then click on OK. Program will start its job after no more than 2 minutes your only one audio track movie should be ready.

Monday, August 6, 2007

Hitchcock Collection - The Paradine case (1947) - Gregory Peck, Alida Valli

Rating 6.4/10
Runtime: 125 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0039694/

Cast

Gregory Peck ... Anthony Keane, Counsel for the Defence
Alida Valli ... Mrs. Maddalena Anna Paradine
Ann Todd ... Gay Keane
Charles Laughton ... Judge Lord Thomas Horfield
Charles Coburn ... Sir Simon Flaquer
Ethel Barrymore ... Lady Sophie Horfield
Louis Jourdan ... Andre Latour, Paradine's Valet
Leo G. Carroll ... Sir Joseph, Counsel for the Prosecution

Description: Highly successful London barrister Anthony Keane takes on the case of Italian Maddalena Paradine who is accused of poisoning her blind military hero husband. Keane comes increasingly under her spell, threatening both his marriage and his career.

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Sunday, August 5, 2007

Hitchcock Collection - The family plot (1972)

Rating 6.4/10
Runtime: 121 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0074512/

Cast

Karen Black ... Fran
Bruce Dern ... George
Barbara Harris ... Blanche
William Devane ... Adamson

Description: Fake medium Madam Blanche (Barbara Harris) and her taxi driver boyfriend George (Bruce Dern) make a living by scaming people with her phoney powers. They are hired by an aging widow, Julia Rainbird, to find her nephew who was given away for adoption many years earlier following a family scandal. Meanwhile, an extremely clever couple, diamond merchant Arthur Adamson (William Devane) and his attractive girlfriend Fran (Karen Black), are behind a series of kidnappings of various VIPs in the San Francisco area. The two couples paths soon cross and chaos results in Hitchcock's last film.

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Video : 626 MB, 766 Kbps, 25.0 fps, 544*288 (16:9), DX50 = DivXNetworks Divx v5
Audio : 75 MB, 92 Kbps, 32000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = Lame MP3

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Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Hitchcock Collection - Sabotage (1936) - Oskar Homolka and Sylvia Sidney

Rating 7.2/10
Runtime: 76 min
Language: English
Country: UK
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0028212

Cast

Sylvia Sidney ... Mrs. Verloc
Oskar Homolka ... Karl Anton Verloc
Desmond Tester ... Steve
John Loder ... Sgt. Ted Spencer

Description: Mr. Verloc, a cinema owner, is part of a gang of saboteurs in London. He lives with his wife, Sylvya, and her young brother, Stevie. They know nothing about Verloc's secret. Scotland Yard assigns an undercover detective, Ted, to work in a shop near the cinema and investigate the man. The head of the gang assigns Verloc to put a bomb in the metro. The man sends Stevie there with the "bag".

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http://rapidshare.com/files/290222363/Sab__tage.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/290222315/Sab__tage.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/290222333/Sab__tage.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/290226684/Sab__tage.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/290226743/Sab__tage.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/290226637/Sab__tage.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/290230943/Sab__tage.part7.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/290229532/Sab__tage.part8.rar

Audio and video information:

Video : 669 MB, 1273 Kbps, 25.0 fps, 576*432 (4:3), XVID = XVID Mpeg-4
Audio : 31 MB, 60 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = MPEG Layer-3

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Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Hitchcock Collection - The lodger (1927)

Rating 7.4/10
Runtime: 75 min
Language: Silent movie (English intertitles)
Country: UK
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0017075

Cast

Ivor Novello ... Jonathan Drew (The Lodger)
Marie Ault ... The Landlady (Mrs. Bunting)
Arthur Chesney ... Her Husband (Mr. Bunting)
June ... Daisy Bunting, a Mannequin
Malcolm Keen ... Joe Chandler

Description: A serial killer known as "The Avenger" is on the loose in London, murdering blonde women. A mysterious man arrives at the house of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting looking for a room to rent. The Bunting's daughter is a blonde model and is seeing one of the detectives assigned to the case. The detective becomes jealous of the lodger and begins to suspect he may be the avenger.

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http://hotfile.com/dl/39438302/329dc6a/T_Lo__dger.part1.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/39455958/dcec9b3/T_Lo__dger.part2.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/39486057/945b347/T_Lo__dger.part3.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/39471848/b2ed12e/T_Lo__dger.part4.rar.html

Audio and video information:

Video : 669 MB, 1324 Kbps, 25.0 fps, 512*384 (4:3), XVID = XVID Mpeg-4
Audio : 30 MB, 60 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = MPEG Layer-3, CBR

German subtitles (sub/idx) + sample (8 MB):

http://rapidshare.com/files/384532138/T_lodg_er_subs_sample.rar

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Hitchcock Collection - To catch a thief (1955) - Cary Grant, Grace Kelly

Rating 7.5/10
Runtime: 106 min
Language: English/French
Country: USA
Directed by: Alffred Hitchcock
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0048728/

Cast

Cary Grant ... John Robie
Grace Kelly ... Frances Stevens
Jessie Royce Landis ... Jessie Stevens
John Williams ... H. H. Hughson
Charles Vanel ... Bertani

Description: John Robie is a one-time cat burglar, now reformed and living a blameless life in a plush villa. When a fresh set of burglaries rocks the Riviera all bearing the hallmark of Robie's own robberies, he is the natural suspect. Robie sets out to catch the new burglar himself, mainly to prove his innocence. He is aided by an American heiress, who initially is convinced that he is actually guilty.

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Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Hitchcock Collection - Frenzy (1972) - Barry Foster, Jon Finch

Rating 7.5/10
Runtime: 116 min
Language: English
Country: UK
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0068611/

Cast

Jon Finch ... Richard Ian Blaney
Barry Foster ... Robert Rusk
Alec McCowen ... Chief Inspector Oxford
Billie Whitelaw ... Hetty Porter
Anna Massey ... Barbara Jane ('Babs') Milligan
Barbara Leigh-Hunt ... Brenda Margaret Blaney
Bernard Cribbins ... Felix Forsythe
Vivien Merchant ... Mrs. Oxford

Description: Covent Garden wholesale fruit merchant Bob Rusk is an impotent serial killer who strangles women with a necktie. One of his victims is Brenda Blaney, the ex-wife of his best friend, Richard Blaney, who becomes a prime suspect. Fearing discovery, Rusk kills Blaney's girlfriend, a barmaid, and Blaney is arrested. Escaping from jail, Blaney is followed by the police to Rusk's flat, where he's headed to seek revenge for his wrongful conviction of the crimes.

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Monday, July 23, 2007

Hitchcock Collection - Notorious (1946) - Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman

Rating 8.3/10
Runtime: 101 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcok
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0038787/

Cast

Cary Grant ... T.R. Devlin
Ingrid Bergman ... Alicia Huberman
Claude Rains ... Alexander Sebastian
Louis Calhern ... Captain Paul Prescott
Leopoldine Konstantin ... Madame Anna Sebastian

Description: Because her father was a German spy who has committed suicide in prison, Government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman to become an undercover agent. She has fallen in love with Devlin and is trying to repay her father's moral debt to America, the country she loves and feels her father has betrayed. Her assignment in Rio de Janeiro involves resuming an acquaintance with a wealthy German businessman, Alexander Sebastian, who has been attracted to her. She is to infiltrate his circle of German scientists. Against the wishes of his mother, Sebastian asks Alicia to marry him. She accepts, and they marry, though she is disappointed when Devlin raises no objections. After their marriage, Alicia explores the Sebastian mansion, but finds the wine cellar is locked. Devlin tells Alicia to invite him to a party at Sebastian's mansion. She is to take the key to the wine cellar from Sebastian's key ring without his knowing it. At the party, Devlin and Alicia investigate the wine cellar, where the find some bottles of sand. When Sebasian finds them together in the wine cellar, they convince him they are having a tryst. Noticing that the key was missing and then returned, Sebastian suspects Alicia of being a U.S. spy and his mother plots to eliminate her because she has become a woman who knows too much.

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Sunday, July 22, 2007

Spellbound (1945) - classic thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Leo G. Carroll and Rhonda Fleming

Rating 7.5/10
Runtime: 118 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0038109

Cast

Ingrid Bergman ... Dr. Constance Petersen
Gregory Peck ... John Ballantine, aka Dr. Anthony Edwardes
Michael Chekhov ... Dr. Alexander 'Alex' Brulov
Leo G. Carroll ... Dr. Murchison
Rhonda Fleming ... Mary Carmichael
John Emery ... Dr. Fleurot
Norman Lloyd ... Mr. Garmes
Bill Goodwin ... House detective
Steven Geray ... Dr. Graff

Description: Dr. Anthony Edwardes (Gregory Peck), sent to replace Dr. Murchison (Leo G. Carroll) as head of Green Manors mental hospital, is an impostor. When Murchinson calls the police, Edwardes leaves, followed by Dr. Constance Peterson (Ingrid Bergman), who has fallen in love with him and wants to treat his amnesia. She believes he is a medical doctor whose name is John. Skiing down a long slope, accompanied by Constance, John relives the memory of his brother being impaled on an iron fence with parallel bars, an accident for which he feels responsible. Police find the real Dr. Edwardes' dead body and John is accused of his murder.

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Saturday, July 21, 2007

Rope (1948) - classic crime drama directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger and Cedric Hardwicke

Rating 8.0/10
Runtime: 80 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0040746

Cast

James Stewart ... Rupert Cadell
John Dall ... Brandon Shaw
Farley Granger ... Phillip Morgan
Cedric Hardwicke ... Mr. Kentley
Constance Collier ... Mrs. Atwater
Douglas Dick ... Kenneth Lawrence
Edith Evanson ... Mrs. Wilson
Dick Hogan ... David Kentley
Joan Chandler ... Janet Walker

Description: Brandon and Philip are two young men who share a New York apartment. They consider themselves intellectually superior to their friend David Kentley and as a consequence decide to murder him. Together they strangle David with a rope and placing the body in an old chest, they proceed to hold a small party. The guests include David's father, his fiancée Janet and their old schoolteacher Rupert from whom they mistakenly took their ideas. As Brandon becomes increasingly more daring, Rupert begins to suspect

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Tuesday, July 17, 2007

The lady vanishes (1938) - classic mystery directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas and Dame May Whitty

Rating 8.1/10
Runtime: 97 min
Language: English
Country: UK
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0030341/

Cast

Margaret Lockwood ... Iris Matilda Henderson
Michael Redgrave ... Gilbert Redman
Paul Lukas ... Dr. Hartz of Prague
Dame May Whitty ... Miss Froy, Governess
Cecil Parker ... Eric Todhunter
Linden Travers ... 'Mrs.' Margaret Todhunter
Naunton Wayne ... Caldicott
Basil Radford ... Charters

Description: On a train through Europe, Iris Henderson meets the kindly old woman Miss Froy, and they meet several other passengers over the course of their conversation. Iris later wakes up from a nap to discover that Miss Froy is nowhere to be found, and none of the people they met seem to have any recollection of her. A psychiatrist on the train suggests that Miss Froy never existed: Iris was bumped on the head before boarding, and the conversation may have only taken place in her head. However, Iris is certain that something more sinister is going on, and teams up with another acquaintance, the musician Gilbert, to find her before the train reaches its destination.

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Monday, July 16, 2007

Vertigo (1958) - classic thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart, Kim Novak and Barbara Bel Geddes

Rating 8.3/10
Runtime: 128 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0052357/

Cast

James Stewart ... Det. John 'Scottie' Ferguson
Kim Novak ... Madeleine Elster/Judy Barton
Barbara Bel Geddes ... Marjorie 'Midge' Wood
Tom Helmore ... Gavin Elster
Henry Jones ... Coroner
Raymond Bailey ... Scottie's Doctor

Description: John "Scottie" Ferguson is a retired San Francisco police detective who suffers from acrophobia and Madeleine is the lady who leads him to high places. A wealthy shipbuilder who is an acquaintance from college days approaches Scottie and asks him to follow his beautiful wife, Madeleine. He fears she is going insane, maybe even contemplating suicide, because she believes she is possessed by a dead ancestor. Scottie is skeptical, but agrees after he sees the beautiful Madeleine

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Dial M for murder (1954) - classic thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings and John Williams

Rating 8.0/10
Runtime: 105 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0046912/

Cast

Ray Milland ... Tony Wendice
Grace Kelly ... Margot Mary Wendice
Robert Cummings ... Mark Halliday
John Williams ... Chief Insp. Hubbard
Anthony Dawson ... Charles Alexander Swann aka Captain Lesgate
Leo Britt ... The Storyteller

Description: Tony Wendice learns that his wife, Margo had an affair but even though it's over, he decided to kill her but chose to bide his time. He waited until Mark Halliday, his wife's boyfriend, returned to town. He then placed his plan in order. He summoned a man, whose reputation is a bit shady, and reveals that he knows his secrets but also tells him about his wife and her boyfriend and that they are each the beneficiary of their estates. He gets the man to agree to kill his wife and he has laid out what appears to be perfect plan. Only thing is the man was the one who was killed. Wendice trying to cover everything up, decides then to make it appear that Margo had an ulterior motive for killing the man. And it appears to be working except Halliday doesn't believe she's guilty and the police uncover a few anomalies.

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Thursday, July 12, 2007

The birds (1963) - classic thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Tippi Hendren and Rod Taylor

Rating: 7.8/10
Runtime: 119 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0056869/

Cast

Tippi Hedren ... Melanie Daniels
Rod Taylor ... Mitch Brenner
Jessica Tandy ... Lydia Brenner
Suzanne Pleshette ... Annie Hayworth
Veronica Cartwright ... Cathy Brenner

Descrition: Spoilt socialite and notorious practical joker Melanie Daniels is shopping in a San Francisco pet store when she meets Mitch Brenner. Mitch is looking to buy a pair of love birds for his young sister's birthday; he recognises Melanie but pretends to mistake her for an assistant. She decides to get her own back by buying the birds and driving up to the quiet coastal town of Bodega Bay, where Mitch spends his weekends with his sister and mother. Shortly after she arrives, Melanie is attacked by a gull, but this is just the start of a series of attacks by an increasing number of birds.

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