My dad told me that he used to go downtown to shine shoes when he was 7 yrs old, earn a dime, give 5 cents to his mom and keep the other 5 cents to go to the movies. And these are the movies he watched, so thanks of reminding me of dear dad
Ahhhh Niiice, when my Mom was with us, she used to tell me that when she was the movies were a Dime & ya stayed literally all day, Now that's the Good Old Days💗💙🙌👍
It always amazes me how these old films can tell a more believable story in less time and keep one's attention better than contemporary attempts of entertainment.
Hollywood has forgotten that a movie is supposed to tell a story, get the viewers emotionally involved w the characters and the action going on and move us all toward a moral conclusion. These days H is just out to replace stories w events where minor celebs appear in trendy places, wearing trendy clothes and sass each other w trendy patois and that is supposed to pass for cool. Big budgets allow H to fill up the screens w unreal events w vehicles, weapons and situations that suspend the viewers' belief, and that adrenalized thrill ride is supposed to get us to forget that there was no story to tell, no emotional lift and no satisfactory conclusion to their tale. Film has become just an adrenalized, fentanylized visual ejaculation w no morning after, leaving the viewer w that same empty feeling, that their event, was no night before, and was just a great waste of time..
The minister who can get to the point, share pertinent and interesting informa- tion and finish to an alert audience in less than an hour...was successful. The minister who drones on for twice as long and floats into uninteresting and non-pertinent information to a sleepy, bored audience...wasted everyone's time.
After about 1960, I remember hollywood 'justified' vulgarity as "realism". Later, as our society progressively deteriorated, it was just a natural symptom of our collapse. Any time I hear them use "G/D", I comment on it, and shut the movie down.
@@DavidRice111 I see it the same way (born in 1948) and remember well how things went in the sixties and on in today. I am right there with you on my reaction to the Lord's name being used in movies. As a matter of fact, all I ever watch now are these old movies on youtube and some historical documentaries.
PizzaFlix, your uploads have taken over my life these days. I'm home recovering from surgery, and I can't stop watching these movies. Murder on the Campus is a really good one.
Get a load of that ambulance! Lying low like an old Porsche. Don't you just love old movies, especially B&W ones. Nothing to distract from the melodrama. Easy to follow, life in the early 30 's , documentation. This is light entertainment now.
The playwright Arthur Miller grew up in New York City during that era. In his autobiography 'timebends' he speaks about the style/elegance and wide variety of those cars.
One problem they were top-heavy. If too fast goin on a curve, they would roll. On the positive side, the metal was so thick that often the roof didn't collapse on the passengers when the cars rolled. In the 1950s and early 60s, the teenagers in my neighborhood all had 1940s cars and every Sunday on the basketball court in the park, one would come in, who had been drinkin over the weekend, and say that he rolled his car. Each time it was another teenager, not the same one as last week.
Yes, that may be, but when this was made older people were probably complaining cars weren’t full of as much personality and pep as horses, yet here were are. It’s all relative, but the only thing that will always stay the same is people comparatively bitc.h.ing and wingeing. smfh
this was a very well done who-done-it, at least as good as today's. of course it has to be wrapped up at the end but all in all a very fun movie, decent script and ok acting.
Great old movie, it truly is a very good way of showing the works of actual acting with out the nasty language that is used in the new movies put out these days
This time period was in the middle of the Great Depression. So think twice when you think things were so wonderful. You couldn't just sit around playing on your cell phone all day.
As a musician, it's amazing to hear the opening jazz theme. I'm a fan of both 1920's pop music (the first genre to be called 'Jazz'), _and_ the Swing version of jazz that followed in the 1930 & '40s. I love The Paul Whiteman Orchestra of the 1920s, which had some awesome sophisticated arrangements. Although that music was very syncopated, it was not 'swung' yet. In this movie, we're only 3 years into the '30s, and the jazz is completely swung! There was no period of transition; it's as if Swing was born in the early '30s, almost fully formed, right out of the gate.
He was in MORE THAN 300 films . 'not really 'type cast' but was in many as a police or legal official ...but I saw him as a seaman, a bartender, a crook, etc
Interesting story with lots of red herrings served with mystery sauce. :) A variation of the locked room murder trope. The only thing really "pre-code" is women having more than one male friend. (Oh, my!)
This movie was made four years after the Stock Market crash of October 29,1929. People jumping off buildings were people who" lost their wealth" via the crash,they lost" everything." Poor people had no reason" to panic,jump off buildings" they did not have anything to lose!
But everybody was in the market because of margin borrowing of 10:1, even the shoeshine boy which is why Joe Kennedy sold everything and saved the family fortune.
Many - down in the southern half of the Appalachians - knew nothing about the stock market CRASH or Depression until it was all over. They still had their gardens, farm animals, made their own clothing/furniture/candles et cetera .....and very little money.
So, Sergeant Lorrimer finds a gun in Lillian's apartment that may be a murder weapon, and just picks it up, obliterating any fingerprints that might be on it. Brilliant. That's Edward Van Sloan as Professor Hawley, who played Dr. Van Helsing in the 1931 version of Dracula with Bela Lugosi.
Such an excellent film great quality upload. Thank you. A really good story portrayed by solid terrific just great acting! No silly swooning dames overly manly mannish men... That said, oh my she's beautiful and he beyond ❤️
I love these old movies, even when the script is a little thin, and the techniques less than what we have become used to (computers). The fatherly police captain, and the boyish paper man. But so help me, I cannot figure out why everyone always looks holder than me, and I old enough. The other questions I have go to the way, the way the directors just sort of knew what look the actor/ess had to pose to evoke their character -- like superior or sexy or monstrous, etc. given they were forging history. Neither had they a place to study, nor others to emulate -- they just had their genius. I am so moved. Sherlock (Basil Rathbone) Watson (Nigel Bruce) and all the rest of the characters and their fictional portrayer. I'll bet no one ever asked the characters what they thought! So, how come we are all so sure there isn't a REAL Sherlock to base his characterization on? I think this is just as valid a question, artistically, as much as our fellow humans hide behind the characterizations portrayed on the screen, or in the theatre? In other words, what's real?
Students dressed better as well. Sports jackets were for sports: shooting or fishing. Nice dinnet and music date required a semi- formal tux and nice dress.
NOTICE THE HAIRSTYLE OF THE SECRETARY THE SAME AS MISS CRABTREE OF OUR GANG SERIES! YES! IT'S 1933 WHEN THIS MOVIE AND HAL ROACH SERIES WERE MADE. HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF SO LET'S WAIT FOR THIS COIF COMES AROUND AGAIN!
It's so sad that only people who made it into the movies will have been left in people's memories. Otherwise, they would had to have been famous scientists and/military heroes, composers, comedians, artists or habituary criminals. Tough choices.
Talking about the F word ….I hate😠… I always think what In the world would they said in movies now day if there was no such word as the F word …they wouldn’t have any thing to say .. So very sad 😢 . The old movies are grea
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I noticed the beautiful clothes on the leads, especially. They were stunning, in my opinion. Some awkward scenes, at the beginning of the picture; but overall, an interesting one. I wonder if Charles Starrett became a big star! (based on this picture).
The convertible with all the chrome wasn't exactly an everyman car in the early dirty thirties. But movies were sure an escape from reality for a couple of hours back then.
I am a big fan of Charles Starrett but why the copout ending? What happens to the oddball professor(Edward Van Sloan's character) at the end of the film? Can someone please explain this to me- Thanks!
this is in the category of a "police procedural" much like the novels of Michael Connelly ...which are really GOOD! liking this flick. But there has to be a secret passage in the tower...people can't fly!
Enough twists and turns to keep it interesting, but pretty choppy plotwise (or perhaps bits and pieces are missing from this print). Charles Starrett had a long career, most notably as The Durango Kid. But the young man playing the frathouse manager has to be one of the worst actors on film - and I saw on IMDB that this film is his only credit.
I agree that cars are all beginning to look alike but bite your tongue saying a masserati looks like a Toyota I have had a Toyota and it was a piece of blank. Rhymes with hit. But I do love the old time cars
Films like this will be appreciated only by those who appreciate the decade of the 1930's, which was a FAR BETTER era than what we're going through now. Back then, life made sense and there was hope for the future; today we have none of that, what with a flood of drugs, a flood of foreigners, a wave of violent crime, and the Federal Income Tax. If I could travel through Time, I wouldn't be writing this now.
Probably the same thoughts Americans had a hundred years ago...only then... YOU were the foreigners. When the winds of change blow some people build walls and others build windmills...
@Lee Larson: I appreciate films like these but you obviously have no clue as to what you are talking about... Unemployment was at an all time high during the 1930s because of the stock market crash of 1929...
lee larson i agree with you. i didn't live in the 30's, but 20 years later as a kid i got any job i wanted, so many opportunities. each year i got a tax return big enough to take 4 weeks vacation. these days in australia there's no such thing as a tax cheque at end of year. the govt gets it all now. the music era n the 30s looks great to me. they knew how to have fun and dance, and those women were so beautiful
Talking about the F word ….I hate😠… I always think what In the world would they said in movies now day if there was no such word as the F word …they wouldn’t have any thing to say .. So very sad 😢 . The old movies are great LOVE THE OLD MOVIES 🌹
Love this picture....instead of saying f.... you...the good guy said, “Oh, go jump on the lake.” Sorry they don’t make them like that anymore!
Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX. May the Sauce be with you!
Golly!
he should have said " I GOT A SHERIFFS BADGE"
I hate swearing.
@@pinkbeautytwinkle I hate that swearing has been accepted as the new normal
My dad told me that he used to go downtown to shine shoes when he was 7 yrs old, earn a dime, give 5 cents to his mom and keep the other 5 cents to go to the movies. And these are the movies he watched, so thanks of reminding me of dear dad
Awesome story. Tfs
Nice memory. He s with you.
Such a heartwarming story! Thank you for sharing 😊
Beautiful memory ❤
Ahhhh Niiice, when my Mom was with us, she used to tell me that when she was the movies were a Dime & ya stayed literally all day, Now that's the Good Old Days💗💙🙌👍
It always amazes me how these old films can tell a more believable story in less time and keep one's attention better than contemporary attempts of entertainment.
Hollywood has forgotten that a movie is supposed to tell a story, get the viewers emotionally involved w the characters and the action going on and move us all toward a moral conclusion. These days H is just out to replace stories w events where minor celebs appear in trendy places, wearing trendy clothes and sass each other w trendy patois and that is supposed to pass for cool. Big budgets allow H to fill up the screens w unreal events w vehicles, weapons and situations that suspend the viewers' belief, and that adrenalized thrill ride is supposed to get us to forget that there was no story to tell, no emotional lift and no satisfactory conclusion to their tale. Film has become just an adrenalized, fentanylized visual ejaculation w no morning after, leaving the viewer w that same empty feeling, that their event, was no night before, and was just a great waste of time..
I am having some trouble hearing the sound.
Yes
The minister who can get to the point, share pertinent and interesting informa-
tion and finish to an alert audience in
less than an hour...was successful.
The minister who drones on for twice as long and floats into uninteresting and
non-pertinent information to a sleepy,
bored audience...wasted everyone's time.
@@robertwalker5521 But both ministers are selling snake oil, so what's the difference?
I love these great oldies...its amazing that ppl still watch these timeless classics...
We watch the old ones cause the new ones suck.
I love these old movies with their clean jabs/jibes at each other - no need for vulgarity to make a good story. Thank you, Dear Pizza!♥
After about 1960, I remember hollywood 'justified' vulgarity as "realism". Later, as our society progressively deteriorated, it was just a natural symptom of our collapse. Any time I hear them use "G/D", I comment on it, and shut the movie down.
@@DavidRice111 I see it the same way (born in 1948) and remember well how things went in the sixties and on in today. I am right there with you on my reaction to the Lord's name being used in movies. As a matter of fact, all I ever watch now are these old movies on youtube and some historical documentaries.
Another fun early 30's mystery. Thank you for loading these flicks.
Love these old movies,one thing in so many is how important the news papers of the time were!
Amazing how well studied the forensics in this movie are and how clever the dialogue is, even the old inspector's who is no old fool.
"Mac, have you ever been in love ?"
"No, l´ve been a bartender all me life"
PizzaFlix, your uploads have taken over my life these days. I'm home recovering from surgery, and I can't stop watching these movies. Murder on the Campus is a really good one.
Get a load of that ambulance! Lying low like an old Porsche. Don't you just love old movies, especially B&W ones. Nothing to distract from the melodrama. Easy to follow, life in the early 30 's , documentation. This is light entertainment now.
Those old cars were so beautiful and elegant. Nowadays even a Maserati looks like a Toyota!
The playwright Arthur Miller grew up in New York City during that era. In his autobiography 'timebends' he speaks about the style/elegance and wide variety of those cars.
my father had to walk to school barefoot 1960 ireland. no electricity or hot water or none of that fancy shit.
One problem they were top-heavy. If too fast goin on a curve, they would roll. On the positive side, the metal was so thick that often the roof didn't collapse on the passengers when the cars rolled. In the 1950s and early 60s, the teenagers in my neighborhood all had 1940s cars and every Sunday on the basketball court in the park, one would come in, who had been drinkin over the weekend, and say that he rolled his car. Each time it was another teenager, not the same one as last week.
@@magicbulletdancers Haha flattened coca cola cans ja.
Yes, that may be, but when this was made older people were probably complaining cars weren’t full of as much personality and pep as horses, yet here were are.
It’s all relative, but the only thing that will always stay the same is people comparatively bitc.h.ing and wingeing. smfh
Thank you for sharing this very entertaining movie.
While not a very expensive production, this plot is well developed. I recommend it.
"What's that".
"I guess someone at the door".
Brilliant answer.
Another newspaper reporter in the wrong job solving murders which the police can't..
this was a very well done who-done-it, at least as good as today's. of course it has to be wrapped up at the end but all in all a very fun movie, decent script and ok acting.
7:47 to 9:47 the lighting is exquisite.
Very important to the atmosphere of
these films. GREAT!
Great old movie, it truly is a very good way of showing the works of actual acting with out the nasty language that is used in the new movies put out these days
Great old flick, thanks for posting!
This was fun! Well done and very interesting.❤️❣️
Such a good film. Well worth an hour or so. Enjoy. August, 2023.
This time period was in the middle of the Great Depression. So think twice when you think things were so wonderful. You couldn't just sit around playing on your cell phone all day.
As a musician, it's amazing to hear the opening jazz theme. I'm a fan of both 1920's pop music (the first genre to be called 'Jazz'), _and_ the Swing version of jazz that followed in the 1930 & '40s. I love The Paul Whiteman Orchestra of the 1920s, which had some awesome sophisticated arrangements. Although that music was very syncopated, it was not 'swung' yet. In this movie, we're only 3 years into the '30s, and the jazz is completely swung! There was no period of transition; it's as if Swing was born in the early '30s, almost fully formed, right out of the gate.
Love these old movies .the cars and clothes are great
Also, the home decor! I love art deco.
J. Farrell MacDonald always a favorite. Thanks for posting.
He was in MORE THAN 300 films . 'not
really 'type cast' but was in many as a
police or legal official ...but I saw him as a seaman, a bartender, a crook, etc
i feel like number 5, the robot in the movie, short circuit, input input. i can't get enough of these old flicks and this one is beautiful
Wow that Charles Starrett that played the Times reporter , sure was frickin handsome, and his demeanour is awesome. Love him
Charlie Starrett, as my mom called him, was also big in westerns.
Interesting story with lots of red herrings served with mystery sauce. :) A variation of the locked room murder trope. The only thing really "pre-code" is women having more than one male friend. (Oh, my!)
wonderful all the old movies, I sure do love them
I figured it out when ... I liked it alot. I watch most movies before 1960. Very few since.
Love, love, love them!!! Keep them coming.
I very much like this old movie, even though it's not very believable that a police department would give an amateur so much leeway and cooperation.
That was a great movie, I throughly enjoyed it. Thanks for the upload. Keep em comin. 😎👍👍👍
This movie was made four years after the Stock Market crash of October 29,1929. People jumping off buildings were people who" lost their wealth" via the crash,they lost" everything." Poor people had no reason" to panic,jump off buildings" they did not have anything to lose!
But everybody was in the market because of margin borrowing of 10:1, even the shoeshine boy which is why Joe Kennedy sold everything and saved the family fortune.
Many - down in the southern half of the
Appalachians - knew nothing about the
stock market CRASH or Depression until
it was all over.
They still had their gardens, farm animals,
made their own clothing/furniture/candles
et cetera .....and very little money.
As soon as I heard the noise machine n the movie I knew it was the doctor.
Ohhh how I love these black and white mystery movies.
Yep , that was the clincher.
So, Sergeant Lorrimer finds a gun in Lillian's apartment that may be a murder weapon, and just picks it up, obliterating any fingerprints that might be on it. Brilliant. That's Edward Van Sloan as Professor Hawley, who played Dr. Van Helsing in the 1931 version of Dracula with Bela Lugosi.
Starring Charles Starrett, several years before he became "The Durango Kid".
THE GREATEST GENERATION……..RESPECT !
He couldn't run an errand
...priceless..
The Durango Kid!!!! Enjoyed the film, thanks for posting
Really clean copy thanks
Was it normal for the police and reporters to be so close back then? Did anybody else notice the cop with the cigar sounds like Rodney Dangerfield? 😂
So close...they 'practically' needed a marriage license to keep it 'legal and proper, like'....Word.
Sounded just like Rodney
Thoroughly enjoyed this movie, what a little gem
Thank you for such a great movie. Love the black and whites.
Ladies dresses were gorgeous!
And long , loved their blond hair
Such an excellent film great quality upload. Thank you.
A really good story portrayed by solid terrific just great acting! No silly swooning dames overly manly mannish men... That said, oh my she's beautiful and he beyond ❤️
Great film, better than I expected. Lot's of suspense. WHAT ACTORS. I loved the fashions of that era.
Pretty clever plot!
I love these old movies, even when the script is a little thin, and the techniques less than what we have become used to (computers). The fatherly police captain, and the boyish paper man. But so help me, I cannot figure out why everyone always looks holder than me, and I old enough. The other questions I have go to the way, the way the directors just sort of knew what look the actor/ess had to pose to evoke their character -- like superior or sexy or monstrous, etc. given they were forging history. Neither had they a place to study, nor others to emulate -- they just had their genius. I am so moved.
Sherlock (Basil Rathbone) Watson (Nigel Bruce) and all the rest of the characters and their fictional portrayer. I'll bet no one ever asked the characters what they thought!
So, how come we are all so sure there isn't a REAL Sherlock to base his characterization on? I think this is just as valid a question, artistically, as much as our fellow humans hide behind the characterizations portrayed on the screen, or in the theatre? In other words, what's real?
Those women look quite old to be students in a campus.
Monique Cardell. That's because they were
Students dressed better as well. Sports jackets were for sports: shooting or fishing. Nice dinnet and music date required a semi- formal tux and nice dress.
'not one of them, WORE, spectacles, FOR ANYTHING//'
"He couldn't run an errand." Starrett funny!
This is sometime like a nancy drew-ish cozy murder. Back then i guess most murder movies were like that. ...just my speed.
Slow and easy.
M. Il.
Excellent murder mystery!!!!
Blackie Atwater, club owner, played by Maurice Black was Little Arnie Lorch in Little Caesar.
Great movie but it ended short would have liked to seen a little more of the story
NOTICE THE HAIRSTYLE OF THE SECRETARY THE SAME AS MISS CRABTREE OF OUR GANG SERIES! YES! IT'S 1933 WHEN THIS MOVIE AND HAL ROACH SERIES WERE MADE. HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF SO LET'S WAIT FOR THIS COIF COMES AROUND AGAIN!
I like this movie. Very good plot.
It's so sad that only people who made it into the movies will have been left in people's memories. Otherwise, they would had to have been famous scientists and/military heroes, composers, comedians, artists or habituary criminals. Tough choices.
Lily stayed sharp all through this movie...lol. They gave you fashion then.
Great film joyed it very much that’s what I always say I don’t make them like that anymore
Another excellent movie
Talking about the F word ….I hate😠… I always think what In the world would they said in movies now day if there was no such word as the F word …they wouldn’t have any thing to say .. So very sad 😢 . The old movies are grea
Great film
Gave it a chance and ended up liking it 😁
J.Farrell McDonald was the bar tender in My Darling Clementine.
Pretty good movie, but did the ending get chopped off?
Love the cars.
Great movie!!!💖💖💖💖💖
At 44:29 Blackie asks "Did you arrange this little coup?" and pronounces the "p." (!!)
and, coupE would have really confused it
reporter turned detective solves impossible plot, foolish but fun
To be able to go back in time would be awesome.
Made me wish I was still drinking so me and my friends could take a shot every time they called the main character Bill!
It surprises me
No-one ever comments on the clothes....!
😜
Look at the police Captains lovely coat...
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Good one.
Loved it x
that's the way cops open windows!
the opening number is a banger! 🤠
I noticed the beautiful clothes on the leads, especially. They were stunning, in my opinion. Some awkward scenes, at the beginning of the picture; but overall, an interesting one. I wonder if Charles Starrett became a big star! (based on this picture).
I checked. He later became a popular western star.
We have lost a lot of elegence even in everyday life.
Go to IMDb and his name.
thems was cars in the 1930's! like to have one like that now! but all they make are dumb clones.
The convertible with all the chrome wasn't exactly an everyman car in the early dirty thirties. But movies were sure an escape from reality for a couple of hours back then.
Light weight, short wheel based turtles
that roll over in a minor accident.
I am a big fan of Charles Starrett but why the copout ending? What happens to the oddball professor(Edward Van Sloan's character) at the end of the film? Can someone please explain this to me- Thanks!
Minute 25 - crinkle hair black and white blond says "My home is Nev-ah'da". She was never a resident of Nevada because we don't pronounce it that way.
This movie should be entitled: "A man with a long coat enters into a bar..."
Fantastic
Weirdest ending I’ve ever seen 😳
I liked this movie, but it was easy to figure out who the murderer was.
LOVE THE MUSIC
Good acting 👍
Fast forward to the last four or five minutes. That will explain it all.
this is in the category of a "police procedural" much like the novels of Michael Connelly ...which are really GOOD! liking this flick. But there has to be a secret passage in the tower...people can't fly!
Don't forget swing music the cars men and women and kids knew how to act n if u had a job u were grateful n if u had any money it had value
Absolutely bizarre movie
Enough twists and turns to keep it interesting, but pretty choppy plotwise (or perhaps bits and pieces are missing from this print). Charles Starrett had a long career, most notably as The Durango Kid. But the young man playing the frathouse manager has to be one of the worst actors on film - and I saw on IMDB that this film is his only credit.
Enjoyable old movie with primitive sound recording much in evidence.
It's quite easy to compare the "sound
differences' in the early thirties, mid
thirties and late thirties into Pearl Harbor era.
I agree that cars are all beginning to look alike but bite your tongue saying a masserati looks like a Toyota I have had a Toyota and it was a piece of blank. Rhymes with hit. But I do love the old time cars
Films like this will be appreciated only by those who appreciate the decade of the 1930's, which was a FAR BETTER era than what we're going through now. Back then, life made sense and there was hope for the future; today we have none of that, what with a flood of drugs, a flood of foreigners, a wave of violent crime, and the Federal Income Tax. If I could travel through Time, I wouldn't be writing this now.
+Lee Larson I enjoy watching all classic movies but what you wrote has nothing to do with Murder on the Campus (1933) MYSTERY
Ed
Cocaine was also around back then
Probably the same thoughts Americans had a hundred years ago...only then... YOU were the foreigners.
When the winds of change blow some people build walls and others build windmills...
@Lee Larson: I appreciate films like these but you obviously have no clue as to what you are talking about... Unemployment was at an all time high during the 1930s because of the stock market crash of 1929...
lee larson i agree with you. i didn't live in the 30's, but 20 years later as a kid i got any job i wanted, so many opportunities. each year i got a tax return big enough to take 4 weeks vacation. these days in australia there's no such thing as a tax cheque at end of year. the govt gets it all now. the music era n the 30s looks great to me. they knew how to have fun and dance, and those women were so beautiful
Talking about the F word ….I hate😠… I always think what In the world would they said in movies now day if there was no such word as the F word …they wouldn’t have any thing to say .. So very sad 😢 . The old movies are great LOVE THE OLD MOVIES 🌹
the Professor is the guy who nailed Bela Lugosi in Dracula!
Edward van sloan
He was in Frankenstein as well.
@@keithharvey7230 ...and The Mummy
Edward Van Sloane was in Frankenstein and Dracula.
Now this is great. If you can read roman numerals you will know how old I am because this movie was made the year I was born.
It's also the year, the world's last great conqueror came to power.
XC = Ninety