Merle Oberon
Also Known As: Queenie Thompson, Queenie O'Brien, Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Merle Oberon (18 February 1911 – 23 November 1979) was an Indian-born British actress. She began her film career in British films, and a prominent role, as Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), brought her attention. Leading roles in such films as The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) advanced her career, and she travelled to the United States to make films for Samuel Goldwyn. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Dark Angel (1935). A traffic collision in 1937 caused facial injuries that could have ended her career, but she soon followed this with her most renowned role, as Cathy in Wuthering Heights (1939).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India [now Mumbai, Maharashtra, India]
Birthday: February 19, 1911
Deathday: November 23, 1979
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Gender: Female
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Wuthering Heights
Overview: The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff. Earnshaw's son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff becomes companion and soulmate to Hindley's sister, Catherine. After her parents die, Cathy and Heathcliff grow up wild and free on the moors and despite the continued enmity between Hindley and Heathcliff they're happy -- until Cathy meets Edgar Linton, the son of a wealthy neighbor.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-07
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Overview: 18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an underground effort to free French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-20
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Calling All Aliens
Overview: Charles Boyer and Merle Oberon talk about alien registration in a post office in the USA.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-08
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The Lodger
Overview: In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-19
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Berlin Express
Overview: In post-war Europe, a diverse group of passengers aboard a U.S. Army train to bombed-out Frankfurt becomes involved in a Nazi assassination plot.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-01
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Dark Waters
Overview: Leslie Calvin, the sole survivor of a submarine accident, goes to her relatives in order to recover emotionally. Unfortunately, she encounters various scam artists led by Mr. Sydney who intend to kill her and steal the family assets. Dr. George Grover helps Leslie to defeat Sydney.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-21
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Désirée
Overview: In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring about the Emperor's downfall. Josephine Beauharnais, a worldly courtesan marries Napoleon and becomes Empress of France, but is then cast aside by her spouse when she proves unable to produce an heir to the throne.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-16
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The Private Life of Henry VIII
Overview: Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that marriage also ends in tragedy. Not one to be single for long, the king picks German-born Anne of Cleves as his bride, but their union lasts only months before an annulment is granted, and King Henry continues his string of spouses.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-17
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Deep in My Heart
Overview: Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-09
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That Uncertain Feeling
Overview: A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-20
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The Divorce of Lady X
Overview: The morning after a London barrister lets a mystery woman stay in his suite, a friend files for divorce.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-15
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Beloved Enemy
Overview: In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks. As wanted Irish rebel leader Dennis Riordan is not recognized in public, he is able to move about freely and saves the Athleighs from an assassination attempt by a radical faction. Dennis and Helen meet again and, unaware of his position, Helen falls in love with him. Later when Dennis admits his identity, Helen must make a fateful decision.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-25
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Temptation
Overview: After marrying an archaeologist, a Victorian-era woman with a sordid past realizes that she is not ready to settle down with one man.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-02
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The Private Life of Don Juan
Overview: What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five years, still loves him. He refuses to see her; he fears the life of a husband. She has bought his debts and will remand him to jail for two years if he won't come to her. Meanwhile, an impostor is climbing the balconies of Seville claiming to be Don Juan.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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The Lion Has Wings
Overview: This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the British people against the Nazis.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-03
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The Price of Fear
Overview: A co-owner of a race track goes on the run after witnessing something he shouldn't have at the track.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-13
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These Three
Overview: Close friends Martha and Karen build a private boarding school together with the aid of the local doctor Joe. The school takes off and many students enroll, one of whom is a trouble-maker who tells a scandalous lie that threatens to destroy the trio's lives.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-18
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Lydia
Overview: Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young and courted her. In memory, each romance seemed splendid and destined for happiness, but in each case, Lydia realizes, the truth was less romantic, and ill-starred.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-18
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The Oscar
Overview: An amoral lowlife accidentally stumbles into an acting career that sets him on a trajectory to Hollywood stardom. But everyone on whom he steps on the way to the top remembers when he is nominated for an Oscar and he runs a dirty campaign in an attempt to win.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-04
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Affectionately Yours
Overview: A married reporter's assignments carry him all over the world, which gives him ample opportunity to put the moves on the local females.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-10
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First Comes Courage
Overview: Merle Oberon plays a Norwegian resistance figure in a small town, married to a Nazi commandant. When his superiors begin to suspect her, the Allies land an assassin to kill him -- an assassin who happens to be her former lover.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-29
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The Dark Angel
Overview: Kitty Vane, Alan Trent, and Gerald Shannon have been inseparable friends since childhood. Kitty has always known she would marry one of them, but has waited until the beginning of World War I before finally choosing Alan. Gerald graciously gives them his blessing. Then, Gerald and Alan go to war. Angered over a misunderstanding involving Alan and Kitty, Gerald sends Alan on a dangerous mission that will change all their lives forever.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-08
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Wedding Rehearsal
Overview: The grandmother of a British nobleman, reluctant to marry, plays matchmaker. He outmaneuvers her by getting all of the matches married off .
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-01
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Over the Moon
Overview: Young Jane Benson just about manages to make ends meet running the large family house in Yorkshire. In love with local doctor Freddie Jarvis, she suggests they marry, but almost at once finds she has inherited eighteen million pounds. He makes it clear he wants nothing to do with the money and what it can buy, and Jane sets off alone on a spree pursued by two ardent suitors. Jarvis finds he has gained notoriety for turning down such a catch and his plans for ernest research are soon compromised.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-12
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The Cowboy and the Lady
Overview: Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.
Genres: Comedy Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-17
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All Is Possible in Granada
Overview: Following meetings between Spain and the United States a delegation of a mining company arrives to Granada in search of uranium. The company contacted with the landowners, who agree to sell less of them. Such owner refuses because his ground a treasure supposedly hidden Muslim and refuses to sell them to Margaret, representative of the company. When he refused, Margaret convinces the owner to locate the treasure on your own and sell it in case you find it ... but love gets in his plans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-08
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'Til We Meet Again
Overview: Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-20
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A Song to Remember
Overview: Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. The professor takes him to Paris, where he eventually comes under the wing and influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world, to the exclusion of his old friends and patriotic feelings towards Poland.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-19
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Night in Paradise
Overview: Aesop of fable fame poses as an old man and woos away a princess who wants a king for his gold.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-03
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The Epic That Never Was
Overview: The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-19
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24 Hours of a Woman's Life
Overview: A compulsive gambler stumbles towards losing everything when Merle Oberon decides to save him from himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-10
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Night Song
Overview: A socialite pretends to be poor and blind in her plan to help a blinded pianist.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-20
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Folies Bergère
Overview: An entertainer impersonates a look-alike banker, causing comic confusion for wife and girlfriend.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-02-22
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Interval
Overview: An emotionally fragile older woman embarks on an ill-fated love affair with a handsome young artist while traveling through Mexico's Yucatan peninsula...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-15
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This Love of Ours
Overview: At a convention, medical researcher Michel Touzac goes with colleagues to see stage caricaturist Targel, whose assistant Florence recognizes him...and attempts suicide. Saved by Touzac's new technique, Florence is revealed in a flashback as Michel's abandoned wife Karin, whom their daughter Susette thinks is dead. Can Susette cope if they now re-unite?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-02
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The Broken Melody
Overview: A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-15
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A Warm Corner
Overview: This early Gainsborough film is truly a lost treasure and easily one of the most daring and risque films ever made. At least half a dozen different tales seem to be going on at once all finally meeting in the end. The story starts in the Lido hotel where our "Pickles" remarks upon the fact that everyone in the register is called Smith. Hes trying to chat up Mimi so shell split up with her boyfriend as her boyfriends uncle has other plans for his nephew - alas what no one knows is that he and Mimi have already been married for a few months on the sly!
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-29
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Service for Ladies
Overview: Max Tracey is the head waiter at a London hotel. He falls in love at first sight with Sylvia Robertson, an aristocratic woman, and poses as a prince to win her love. In this venture, he is aided by Mr. Westlake, a Ruritanian monarch who owes him a favour. When Sylvia discovers Max's deception, she is appalled, but the situation is resolved when her father tells her that he was once a hotel dishwasher.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-14
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Hotel
Overview: This is the story of the clocklike movements of a giant, big city New Orleans hotel. The ambitious yet loyal manager wrestles with the round-the-clock drama of its guests. A brazen sneak thief, who nightly relieves the guests of their property, is chased through the underground passages of the hotel. The big business power play for control of the hotel and the VIP diplomat guest with a secret add to the excitement.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-19
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Fascination
Overview: Story of a vampish actress who comes between a happily married couple in this light-hearted melodrama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-14
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For the Love of Mike
Overview: A useless secretary and his private detective friend try to help an heiress from being swindled by her guardian.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-01
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Of Love and Desire
Overview: American engineer Steve Corey comes to Mexico to work at one of the mining projects owned by Katherine Beckman and her half-brother Paul. He meets Katherine, and the man he is replacing, Bill Maxton, tells him that Katherine is his for the asking..."all you have to do is touch her---she goes off like fireworks. There were plenty of guys before me, and there'll be plenty after me." Steve finds Katherine as advertised but he falls in love with her. Once he sees that the romance is for real, brother Paul is more than a little displeased at this turn of events and brings back one of Katherine's earlier flames, Gus Cole, to tempt Katherine away from Steve.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-09-11
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Dans la vie tout s'arrange
Overview: A Boston school teacher fights with a group of impoverished Frenchmen for possession of an inherited château. Elizabeth Rockwell is indignant when she finds her château filled with squatters, a widower with five messy children, who have no regard for private property rights.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-08-01
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The Battle
Overview: The Battle is a 1934 Franco-British co-production English language drama film directed by Nicolas Farkas and Viktor Tourjansky, and starring Charles Boyer, Merle Oberon and John Loder. It was adapted from a novel by Claude Farrère. In 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War, a Japanese naval officer gets his wife to seduce a British atachee in order to gain secrets from him. Things begin to go wrong when she instead falls in love with him.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-11
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Stage Door Canteen
Overview: A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance
Genres: Comedy Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-24
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Aren't We All?
Overview: Because his father, Lord Grenham, spends more time philandering with attractive women than conducting business, Willie Tatham is forced to interrupt his honeymoon with his wife Margot in the south of France and return to London to get his father to sign an important contract. While Margot, an actress, goes to a small resort where she will not be recognized, Kitty Lake, one of the young women Lord Grenham pursues, flirts with Willie. Two weeks pass and when Willie tells Margot on the telephone that he must stay in town, she threatens to engage in a violent flirtation with the next attractive man she sees. Karl von der Heide, from Vienna, who is waiting to use the telephone, overhears her and begins a flirtation. She identifies herself to him as Mrs. Margaret Spaulding, and they pursue the beginnings of a romance until Margot suddenly returns home.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-17
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Forever and a Day
Overview: In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-21
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The Three Passions
Overview: A Lord's son aids a seaman's mission but returns to save his sick father's shipyard from strikers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-02
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The Trouble with Merle
Overview: The director explores the birth origins of actress Merle Oberon, traveling to Tasmania and India in search of the truth, but her quest ultimately results in probably more questions than it answers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-29
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Ebb Tide
Overview: A sailor falls in love with a woman he meets at the dockside, but is deeply conflicted because his former lover is in prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-16
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Pardon My French
Overview: A Boston school teacher fights with a group of impoverished Frenchmen for possession of an inherited château. Elizabeth Rockwell is indignant when she finds her château filled with squatters, a widower with five messy children, who have no regard for private property rights.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-10
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Never Trouble Trouble
Overview: A comedy film directed by Lupino Lane.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-05
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Men of Tomorrow
Overview: In the years after his graduation Allen Shepherd has become a successful novelist and has married Jane Anderson. A firm proponent of traditional sex roles, Shepherd leaves Jane when she accepts a teaching post at Oxford. He later changes his views, and the couple is reunited.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-29
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Breakdowns of 1940
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1940.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-31
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Hollywood Goes to Town
Overview: This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which had its premiere at the Carthay Circle Theatre. We see the street leading to the theatre transformed to suggest a garden that might be seen in a French palace. This includes the placement of trees and other foliage, as well as large statues along the route. Grandstands are set up so fans can see their favorite stars as they arrive for the premiere. Finally, the proverbial "galaxy of stars" arrives in their limousines. Fanny Brice and Pete Smith make remarks at the microphone set up on the carpet outside the theatre.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-07
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Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Overview: Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to the West Side Tennis Club affords glimpses of many stars.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-11
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