John Michael Hayes - Nothing has caused the human race so much trou

Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.

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Hayes, John Michael, screenwriter. Rear Window. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Paramount Pictures, 1954.

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