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Explore a dramatization of Walter van Tilburg Clark's short story “The Portable Phonograph”

Explore a dramatization of Walter van Tilburg Clark's short story “The Portable Phonograph”

In this 1977 dramatization of Walter van Tilburg Clark's short story “The Portable Phonograph” (1950), four men in search of comfort gather after a ruinous war.
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