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Taylor blamed Marvin for Burton's drinking -
4 April 2011
-Dame Elizabeth Taylor blamed Oscar winner Lee Marvin for introducing her husband Richard Burton to alcohol, according to her close pal Sir Roger Moore.-Burton struggled with alcoholism for years and it is believed his addiction contributed to the breakdown of his f
Lee Marvin - what members say
review by from London, England
Man vs Man 19 July 2004
review by A customer from Bury, Lancashire
Great film but..... 7 August 2009
review by from Manchester
Not just another western, but a very good film! 15 July 2004
Lee Marvin - filmography
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The Delta Force
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Robert Forster, David Menahem, Geor
Director: Menahem Golan
Certificate: 
Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin form a special military task force to rescue hostages from a hijacked plane. This leads - quite naturally - to chases, stunts, and a healthy dose of martial arts action. Based on a real event, the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jet in Athens, but adapted to include Chuck Norris'..read more »
 
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Seminole
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Russell Johnson, Anthony Quinn, James Best
Director: Budd Boetticher
Certificate: 
1950s western starring Rock Hudson. It's 1835, and at Fort King, Florida Lt Caldwell (Rock Hudson) is under arrest for killing a sentry. At the court-marshall, the events leading up to the arrest are told in flashbacks. Unease between the Army and the local Indians is heightened by the Indian-..read more »
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from 41 members
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Gorky Park
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Joanna Pacula, Brian Dennehy, Lee Marvin
Director: Michael Apted
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When three murder victims are discovered in the snow of Moscow's Gorky Park - stripped of their faces and fingertips to make identification impossible - Russian detective Arkady Renko (William Hurt) is called in to investigate. He follows a trail which leads to two suspects: American fur trader ..read more »
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from 1,023 member
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Dog Day
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Lee Marvin, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet
Director: Yves Boisset
Certificate: 
Jimmy Cobb is the object of a manhunt who finds his refuge in a farm in France. The farm becomes a trap in which the violence of the city meets the evil of the men of the earth...
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from 54 members
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Death Hunt
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Andrew Stevens
Director: Peter R. Hunt
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All that protects a man falsely accused of murder from a police force determined to catch him, is his own superior knowledge of the mountainous wilderness where he's hiding out.
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from 220 members
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Shout At The Devil
(1976)
Starring: Maurice Denham, Ian Holm, Barbara Parkins
Director: Peter R. Hunt
Certificate:
In 1913, the paths of a rogueish ivory dealer, Flynn (Lee Marvin) and Eton educated Sebastion Oldsmith (Roger Moore) become forever tangled when the two of them come across the wicked commissioner Fleisher in a German East African Province. The two men barely escape one altercation with Fleisher, ..read more »
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from 400 members
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The Spikes Gang
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Ron Howard, Noah Beery Jr., Gary Grimes
Director: Richard Fleischer
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Western starring Lee Marvin. When outlaw Harry Spikes (Marvin) is wounded in battle, he is rescued by two runaways. While in recuperation, Spikes tells the boys of his many adventures over the years, and his stories inspire them to form a gang of their own, with Spikes happy to fulfill the role of ..read more »
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from 50 members
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The Klansman
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Linda Evans, O.J. Simpson, Cameron Mitchell
Director: Terence Young
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Lee Marvin, Richard Burton star in this action movie directed by Terence Young. Lee Marvin is Sheriff Bascomb, the entire law enforcement of a small town in Alabama. When Nancy Poteet played by Linda Evans is raped and an innocent black man is blamed.
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from 150 members
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Emperor of the North
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Ernest Borgnine, Keith Carradine, Lee Marvin
Director: Robert Aldrich
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Set in Oregon at the height of the Depression, the film concerns itself with a small community of tramps who ride the rails. Ernest Borgnine plays a sadistic railroad guard who vows to kill any man bumming rides on his train, and Lee Marvin is A-No.1, the hobo who cannot resist the challenge.
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from 298 members
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The Iceman Cometh
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Robert Ryan, Fredric March, Jeff Bridges
Director: John Frankenheimer
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Filmed as part of the American Film Theatre Collection, in which producer Ely Landau directly filmed stage productions of classic American plays, this adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's 1947 Broadway play is directed by John Frankenheimer ('The French Connection', 'The Exorcist'). Set in 1912, it ..read more »
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from 337 members
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Paint Your Wagon
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Benny Baker, Alan Baxter, William O'Connell
Director: Joshua Logan
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Two gold-diggers (Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin) share a wife (Jean Seberg) during the California Gold Rush. Her presence helps turn the amoral 'No-Name City' from a shanty town to a respectable settlement - for a while. As a musical the film is particularly notable as a record of Lee Marvin's ..read more »
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from 2,452 members
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Hell In The Pacific
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Lee Marvin
Director: John Boorman
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A US Marine pilot (Lee Marvin) and a Japanese Naval officer (Toshiro Mifune) find themselves marooned on the same island in the middle of World War II. The pair's first impulse is to continue the wartime struggle and engage each other in a battle to the death, but they soon realise that their ..read more »
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from 556 members
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Point Blank
(1967)
Starring: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn
Director: John Boorman
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A man is shot and left for dead by his unfaithful wife and her mobster lover. Now he's back and out for revenge against the businessmen and mobsters who did him wrong.
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from 499 members
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The Dirty Dozen
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: John Cassavetes, Jim Brown, Robert Ryan
Director: Robert Aldrich
Certificate:
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Director Robert Aldrich took what he considered a hopelessly old-fashioned script by Lukas Heller and Nunnally Johnson and fashioned The Dirty Dozen into one of MGM's biggest moneymakers of the 1960s--and the sixth highest-grossing film in the studio's history. Lee Marvin plays Major Reisman, ..read more »
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from 5,928 members
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The Professionals
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Claudia Cardinale
Director: Richard Brooks
Certificate:
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Grant (Ralph Bellamy) is a wealthy rancher who hires four mercenaries to retrieve his wife, Maria (Claudia Cardinale), from the clutches of the desperado Raza (Jack Palance) in this Western adventure set in 1917. Dolworth (Burt Lancaster) is a munitions expert who joins gunslinger Fardan (Lee ..read more »
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from 1,421 member
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The Professionals - Blu-ray
(1966)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Ralph Bellamy
Director: Richard Brooks
Certificate:
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Burt Lancaster and Lee Marvin headline this rip-roaring Western action/adventure. Four soldiers of fortune are hired by a wealthy Texan oil baron (Ralph Bellamy) to rescue his kidnapped wife (Claudia Cardinale), who's been spirited across the Mexican border by a band of mercenaries led by Jesus ..read more »
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from 160 members
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Ship Of Fools
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Simone Signoret, Jose Ferrer, Lee Marvin
Director: Stanley Kramer
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Classic drama set on a German ocean liner during the Nazi regime of the 1930s. The fateful cruise follows the lives of its passengers including disciples of Naziism, wealthy Jewish men, sleazy dance troupes and bitter lovers along the 36-day-voyage. From the sad love affair between the ship's ..read more »
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from 169 members
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Cat Ballou
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Jane Fonda, Dwayne Hickman, Nat King Cole
Director: Elliott Silverstein
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A Western spoof in which a prim girl (Jane Fonda) hires a once-famous gunman to protect her father from the gunman's evil twin brother (both played by Lee Marvin). Unfortunately the man she hires is now a drunken bum and no match for his tin-nosed twin. When her father is killed, she takes it upon ..read more »
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from 1,529 member
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The Killers
(1964)
Starring: Angie Dickinson, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster
Director: Don Siegel, Robert Siodmak
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based on the short story by Ernest Hemingway. Don Siegel builds another whole world around Hemingway's premise. The two assassins of Siegel's film go in search of their intended victim - a teacher at a school for the blind - and find that he not only recognises his fate when they show up, but seems ..read more »
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from 98 members
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Donovan's Reef
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Elizabeth Allen, Dick Foran, Jack Warden
Director: John Ford
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John Ford's last film dealing with World War 2. Here the story concerns three Naval veterans, Donovan (John Wayne), Gilhooley (Lee Marvin) and Dr William Dedham (Jack Warden), who 20 years on are still living on the Pacific Island they were sent to liberate. Their lives are about to be turned ..read more »
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from 876 members
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - Blu-ray
(1962)
Starring: Ken Murray, Lee Van, Strother Martin
Director: John Ford
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Classic Western starring John Wayne and James Stewart. Big-city lawyer Ransom (Stewart) heads into the Wild West outpost of Shinbone to bring local outlaw Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin) to justice. En route, he is met by a posse led by Valance, who beat him within an inch of his life. Passing cowboy ..read more »
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from 1 member
Due for release on 3rd June 2013
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Ken Murray, Lee Van, Strother Martin
Director: John Ford
Certificate:
Classic Western starring John Wayne and James Stewart. Big-city lawyer Ransom (Stewart) heads into the Wild West outpost of Shinbone to bring local outlaw Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin) to justice. En route, he is met by a posse led by Valance, who beat him within an inch of his life. Passing cowboy ..read more »
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from 3,874 members
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The Comancheros
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Lee Marvin
Director: Michael Curtiz, Andrew V. McLaglen
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In this explosive and absorbing wild west adventure, John Wayne stars as Captain Cutter, a fearless Texas Ranger determined to crush a violent gang of gunrunners. Through unforeseen circumstances, he inlists two unlikely partners to accomplish his mission.
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from 907 members
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The Undefeated
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Lee Marvin
Director: Michael Curtiz, Andrew V. McLaglen
Certificate: 
In the tumultuous aftermath of the Civil War, Union Cavalry officer John Henry Thomas (Wayne) takes his heroic men west while Southerner James Langdon (Hudson) takes his soldiers to Mexico. When their paths cross, they forge an uneasy friendship that is quickyly tested as they get caught between ..read more »
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from 623 members
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Attack
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Ron McNeil, Eddie Albert, Robert Strauss
Director: Robert Aldrich
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A group of American soldiers find themselves trapped by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge. The situation reaches a crisis point when their cowardly and indecisive captain (Eddie Albert) eventually flips into sheer panic. Angry at the lack of proper leadership, the platoon takes matters ..read more »
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from 553 members
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Pillars Of The Sky
(1956)
Starring: Dorothy Malone, Jeff Chandler, Lee Marvin
Director: George Marshall
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Western set in 1860s Oregon, adapted from Heck Allen's novel, 'Frontier Fury'. After being restricted to living on reservations by the US government, many Indians are angered by how they have been treated. As army troops begin to create space for new settlers, Chief Kamiakin (Michael Ansara) leads ..read more »
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Seven Men From Now
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Lee Marvin
Director: Budd Boetticher
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Ben Stride (Randolph Scott, in a role originally slated for John Wayne) trudges stoically through the West, hunting down the seven men responsible for the murder of his wife in a Wells Fargo station holdup. As the film opens, we see him dispatching two of the miscreants during a driving rainstorm. ..read more »
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from 163 members
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The Wild One
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Hugh Sanders, Petty Maley, Jay C. Flippen
Director: Laslo Benedek
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What are you rebelling against? asks someone. What've you got? responds surly, leather-jacketed motorcycle punk Marlon Brando. It comes as a disappointment to discover that The Wild One, the quintessential Brando rebel film, is at base a traditional misunderstood youth vs. the nasty system effort, ..read more »
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from 1,897 member
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The Caine Mutiny
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Jose Ferrer, Tom Tully
Director: Edward Dmytryk
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Robert Francis is at the center of the story as Willis Keith, a newly minted ensign assigned to the U.S.S. Caine. Keith has an uneasy relationship with his skipper, Lt. Comdr. DeVries (Tom Tully), partly through his own ineptitude and as a result of his disapproval of the slovenly way DeVries seems ..read more »
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The Caine Mutiny - Blu-ray
(1954)
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Jose Ferrer, Tom Tully
Director: Edward Dmytryk
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When Lt. Commander Queeg (Humphrey Bogart), the man in charge of the USS Caine, loses his head during a typhoon, his chief officers feel compelled to relieve him of his post. Upon their return to dry land, Queeg brings the men up on charges of mutiny. Co-starring Fred MacMurray, Van Johnson and ..read more »
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from 32 members
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The Big Heat
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Gloria Grahame, Glenn Ford, Peter Whitne
Director: Fritz Lang
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A violent gang plant a bomb in a cop's car. But his wife is the victim as the car explodes. Out to avenge her death, and having already uncovered corruption within the police force he is determined to expose the gang.
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from 1,907 member
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Gun Fury
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Philip Carey, Neville Brand, Roberta Haynes
Director: Raoul Walsh
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Civil War veteran Ben Warren (Rock Hudson) decides that he has had enough of all the violence around him, so he plans to live out the rest of his life in peace in the New West with his fiancee (Donna Reed). Unfortunately, his new-found pacifism is put to the test when his bride-to-be is kidnapped ..read more »
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from 53 members
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The Duel At Silver Creek
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Walter Sande, Gerald Mohr, Faith Domergue
Director: Don Siegel
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A group of vicious claim-jumpers is killing the miners in a Western settlement. Their latest victim is Cromwell (Harry Harvey), who is shot to death at his mine just after his son Luke (Audie Murphy) leaves for town. Luke has three passions in life -- poker, guns, and the silver ornamentation he ..read more »
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from 165 members
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Hangman's Knot
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Randolph Scott, Lee Marvin, Donna Reed
Director: Roy Huggins
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Suspense-filled Western starring Randolph Scott. At the end of the American Civil War, a small band of Confederate soldiers ambush a Union gold shipment. To their horror, they learn from a dying soldier that the war between the North and the South has been over for a month. Now facing certain ..read more »
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from 82 members
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The Killers
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: John Cassavetes, Burt Lancaster, Edmond O'Brien
Director: Don Siegel, Robert Siodmak
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After boxer Swede (Burt Lancaster) is gunned down by a pair of contract killers, insurance investigator Jim Reardon (Edmond O'Brien) sets about piecing together the motives behind the murder. Swede's story is revealed in flashback - how he became involved in the crime world of Big Jim Colfax (..read more »
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Lee Marvin facts
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...nces aside to survive, but will they?
Toshir? Mifune's performance is great. Lee Marvin, though not at his best, is also good.
Some may find the end dissapointing b...
