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1. Shard Calculation

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Response:

Calculated Shard: 122 (from laksa142)

2. Crawled Status Check

Query:

curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa122.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://hurawatch.us.org/catch-22-1970/\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://hurawatch.us.org/catch-22-1970/\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

Response:

{"found_url":"https:\/\/hurawatch.us.org\/catch-22-1970\/","crawl_time":1771516965,"first_indexed_time":1760553076,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"org,us!hurawatch,\/catch-22-1970\/ s443","src_root_hash":"5561623791188988322","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Catch-22 (1970) - Hurawatch","meta_descriptions":[],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Catch-22 (1970)\nA wry and sarcastic (and thick as hell) book about the ridiculous duplicity of war? Sounds like a movie to me.\nAnd so it did to Mike Nichols and Buck Henry, collaborators on The Graduate who conspired once again to make one of the greats of cinema. While Catch-22 has none of the cachet of other war movies (and we’ll get to that…), it’s by far one of the best out there, ranking with Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, and Apocalypse Now as one of the greats.\nIf you’ve never read Joseph Heller’s masterpiece of a novel, it’ll take some explaining to make Catch-22 make sense to you. As the title suggests or rather, as the title inspired a phrase that entered into the American lexicon our hero Yossarian (Alan Arkin) is trapped by a paradox. As a bombardier who’s ready to get out of the Mediterannean during WWII after doing his time, he implores the base doctor (Jack Gilford) to pronounce him insane so he can be shipped home. Since the rules state that insane men can’t fly combat missions, he’s home free, right? Unfortunately, there’s a catch: any man who tries to get out of combat must not be insane, and therefore he has to fly.\nThat’s just the beginning. Catch-22 spirals increasingly out of control, as over-the-top ridiculousness takes hold of the base and all of its crew. The terminus of this occurs when Milo Minderbinder (Jon Voight, perhaps the best part of the film) engineers the bombing of his base in order to get the Germans to buy warehouses full of chocolate-covered cotton that he has foolishly purchases (by trading the parachutes, morphine, and diesel engines lying around). Milo’s “syndicate” speaks to the arrogance and greed of government not only in wartime, but in the everyday world.\nFor more movies like Catch-22 (1970) visit\nHurawatch\n.\nAlso watch:\nCharade (1963)\nCharlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003)\nCatch That Kid (2004)\nCenter Stage (2000)\nCecil B. DeMented (2000)","attrs_markdown":"[Skip to content](https:\/\/hurawatch.us.org\/catch-22-1970\/#content)\n\n[![Hurawatch](data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSIxMjAiIGhlaWdodD0iMjUiIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCAxMjAgMjUiPjxyZWN0IHdpZHRoPSIxMDAlIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjEwMCUiIHN0eWxlPSJmaWxsOiNjZmQ0ZGI7ZmlsbC1vcGFjaXR5OiAwLjE7Ii8+PC9zdmc+)](https:\/\/hurawatch.us.org\/)\n\n- [Home](https:\/\/hurawatch.us.org\/)\n- [Movies](https:\/\/hurawatch.us.org\/movies\/)\n- [Popular](https:\/\/hurawatch.us.org\/category\/popular\/)\n- [Blog](https:\/\/hurawatch.us.org\/blog\/)\n- [Genres](https:\/\/hurawatch.us.org\/genres\/)\n\n[Search](https:\/\/hurawatch.us.org\/catch-22-1970\/)\n\n[![Hurawatch](data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSIxMjAiIGhlaWdodD0iMjUiIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCAxMjAgMjUiPjxyZWN0IHdpZHRoPSIxMDAlIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjEwMCUiIHN0eWxlPSJmaWxsOiNjZmQ0ZGI7ZmlsbC1vcGFjaXR5OiAwLjE7Ii8+PC9zdmc+)](https:\/\/hurawatch.us.org\/)\n\n[Search](https:\/\/hurawatch.us.org\/catch-22-1970\/)\n\n- [Home](https:\/\/hurawatch.us.org\/)\n- [Movies](https:\/\/hurawatch.us.org\/movies\/)\n- [Popular](https:\/\/hurawatch.us.org\/category\/popular\/)\n- [Blog](https:\/\/hurawatch.us.org\/blog\/)\n- [Genres](https:\/\/hurawatch.us.org\/genres\/)\n\n- [Home](https:\/\/hurawatch.us.org\/)\n- [Movies](https:\/\/hurawatch.us.org\/category\/movies\/)\n- Catch-22 (1970)\n# Catch-22 (1970)\n[Leave a Comment](https:\/\/hurawatch.us.org\/catch-22-1970\/#respond) \/ [Movies](https:\/\/hurawatch.us.org\/category\/movies\/) \/ By   [Tony Stark](https:\/\/hurawatch.us.org\/author\/tony-stark\/ \"View all posts by Tony Stark\")\n\n![Catch-22-(1970)](data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSIxMDI0IiBoZWlnaHQ9IjU3NiIgdmlld0JveD0iMCAwIDEwMjQgNTc2Ij48cmVjdCB3aWR0aD0iMTAwJSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxMDAlIiBzdHlsZT0iZmlsbDojY2ZkNGRiO2ZpbGwtb3BhY2l0eTogMC4xOyIvPjwvc3ZnPg==)\n\n**Catch-22 (1970)**\n\nA wry and sarcastic (and thick as hell) book about the ridiculous duplicity of war? Sounds like a movie to me.\n\nAnd so it did to Mike Nichols and Buck Henry, collaborators on The Graduate who conspired once again to make one of the greats of cinema. While Catch-22 has none of the cachet of other war movies (and we’ll get to that…), it’s by far one of the best out there, ranking with Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, and Apocalypse Now as one of the greats.\n\nIf you’ve never read Joseph Heller’s masterpiece of a novel, it’ll take some explaining to make Catch-22 make sense to you. As the title suggests or rather, as the title inspired a phrase that entered into the American lexicon our hero Yossarian (Alan Arkin) is trapped by a paradox. As a bombardier who’s ready to get out of the Mediterannean during WWII after doing his time, he implores the base doctor (Jack Gilford) to pronounce him insane so he can be shipped home. Since the rules state that insane men can’t fly combat missions, he’s home free, right? Unfortunately, there’s a catch: any man who tries to get out of combat must not be insane, and therefore he has to fly.\n\nThat’s just the beginning. Catch-22 spirals increasingly out of control, as over-the-top ridiculousness takes hold of the base and all of its crew. The terminus of this occurs when Milo Minderbinder (Jon Voight, perhaps the best part of the film) engineers the bombing of his base in order to get the Germans to buy warehouses full of chocolate-covered cotton that he has foolishly purchases (by trading the parachutes, morphine, and diesel engines lying around). Milo’s “syndicate” speaks to the arrogance and greed of government not only in wartime, but in the everyday world.\n\n**For more movies like Catch-22 (1970) visit [Hurawatch](https:\/\/hurawatch.us.org\/).**\n\n**Also watch:**\n\n- **[Charade (1963)](https:\/\/hurawatch.us.org\/charade-1963\/)**\n- **[Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003)](https:\/\/hurawatch.us.org\/charlies-angels-full-throttle-2003\/)**\n- **[Catch That Kid (2004)](https:\/\/hurawatch.us.org\/catch-that-kid-2004\/)**\n- **[Center Stage (2000)](https:\/\/hurawatch.us.org\/center-stage-2000\/)**\n- **[Cecil B. 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Sounds like a movie to me.\n\nAnd so it did to Mike Nichols and Buck Henry, collaborators on The Graduate who conspired once again to make one of the greats of cinema. While Catch-22 has none of the cachet of other war movies (and we’ll get to that…), it’s by far one of the best out there, ranking with Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, and Apocalypse Now as one of the greats.\n\nIf you’ve never read Joseph Heller’s masterpiece of a novel, it’ll take some explaining to make Catch-22 make sense to you. As the title suggests or rather, as the title inspired a phrase that entered into the American lexicon our hero Yossarian (Alan Arkin) is trapped by a paradox. As a bombardier who’s ready to get out of the Mediterannean during WWII after doing his time, he implores the base doctor (Jack Gilford) to pronounce him insane so he can be shipped home. Since the rules state that insane men can’t fly combat missions, he’s home free, right? Unfortunately, there’s a catch: any man who tries to get out of combat must not be insane, and therefore he has to fly.\n\nThat’s just the beginning. Catch-22 spirals increasingly out of control, as over-the-top ridiculousness takes hold of the base and all of its crew. The terminus of this occurs when Milo Minderbinder (Jon Voight, perhaps the best part of the film) engineers the bombing of his base in order to get the Germans to buy warehouses full of chocolate-covered cotton that he has foolishly purchases (by trading the parachutes, morphine, and diesel engines lying around). Milo’s “syndicate” speaks to the arrogance and greed of government not only in wartime, but in the everyday world.\n\n**For more movies like Catch-22 (1970) visit [Hurawatch](https:\/\/hurawatch.us.org\/).**\n\n**Also watch:**\n\n- **[Charade (1963)](https:\/\/hurawatch.us.org\/charade-1963\/)**\n- **[Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003)](https:\/\/hurawatch.us.org\/charlies-angels-full-throttle-2003\/)**\n- **[Catch That Kid (2004)](https:\/\/hurawatch.us.org\/catch-that-kid-2004\/)**\n- **[Center Stage (2000)](https:\/\/hurawatch.us.org\/center-stage-2000\/)**\n- **[Cecil B. DeMented (2000)](https:\/\/hurawatch.us.org\/cecil-b-demented-2000\/)**","meta_canonical":null}

3. Robots.txt Check

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4. Spam/Ban Check

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5. Seen Status Check

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INDEXABLE

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CRAWLED

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Page Info Filters

Filter	Status	Condition	Details
HTTP status	PASS	`download_http_code = 200`	HTTP 200
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History drop	PASS	`isNull(history_drop_reason)`	No drop reason
Spam/ban	PASS	`fh_dont_index != 1 AND ml_spam_score = 0`	ml_spam_score=0
Canonical	PASS	`meta_canonical IS NULL OR = '' OR = src_unparsed`	Not set

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URL	https://hurawatch.us.org/catch-22-1970/
Last Crawled	2026-02-19 16:02:45 (1 month ago)
First Indexed	2025-10-15 18:31:16 (5 months ago)
HTTP Status Code	200
Meta Title	Catch-22 (1970) - Hurawatch
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Boilerpipe Text	Catch-22 (1970) A wry and sarcastic (and thick as hell) book about the ridiculous duplicity of war? Sounds like a movie to me. And so it did to Mike Nichols and Buck Henry, collaborators on The Graduate who conspired once again to make one of the greats of cinema. While Catch-22 has none of the cachet of other war movies (and we’ll get to that…), it’s by far one of the best out there, ranking with Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, and Apocalypse Now as one of the greats. If you’ve never read Joseph Heller’s masterpiece of a novel, it’ll take some explaining to make Catch-22 make sense to you. As the title suggests or rather, as the title inspired a phrase that entered into the American lexicon our hero Yossarian (Alan Arkin) is trapped by a paradox. As a bombardier who’s ready to get out of the Mediterannean during WWII after doing his time, he implores the base doctor (Jack Gilford) to pronounce him insane so he can be shipped home. Since the rules state that insane men can’t fly combat missions, he’s home free, right? Unfortunately, there’s a catch: any man who tries to get out of combat must not be insane, and therefore he has to fly. That’s just the beginning. Catch-22 spirals increasingly out of control, as over-the-top ridiculousness takes hold of the base and all of its crew. The terminus of this occurs when Milo Minderbinder (Jon Voight, perhaps the best part of the film) engineers the bombing of his base in order to get the Germans to buy warehouses full of chocolate-covered cotton that he has foolishly purchases (by trading the parachutes, morphine, and diesel engines lying around). Milo’s “syndicate” speaks to the arrogance and greed of government not only in wartime, but in the everyday world. For more movies like Catch-22 (1970) visit Hurawatch . Also watch: Charade (1963) Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003) Catch That Kid (2004) Center Stage (2000) Cecil B. DeMented (2000)
Markdown	[Skip to content](https://hurawatch.us.org/catch-22-1970/#content) [![Hurawatch](data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSIxMjAiIGhlaWdodD0iMjUiIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCAxMjAgMjUiPjxyZWN0IHdpZHRoPSIxMDAlIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjEwMCUiIHN0eWxlPSJmaWxsOiNjZmQ0ZGI7ZmlsbC1vcGFjaXR5OiAwLjE7Ii8+PC9zdmc+)](https://hurawatch.us.org/) - [Home](https://hurawatch.us.org/) - [Movies](https://hurawatch.us.org/movies/) - [Popular](https://hurawatch.us.org/category/popular/) - [Blog](https://hurawatch.us.org/blog/) - [Genres](https://hurawatch.us.org/genres/) [Search](https://hurawatch.us.org/catch-22-1970/) [![Hurawatch](data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSIxMjAiIGhlaWdodD0iMjUiIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCAxMjAgMjUiPjxyZWN0IHdpZHRoPSIxMDAlIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjEwMCUiIHN0eWxlPSJmaWxsOiNjZmQ0ZGI7ZmlsbC1vcGFjaXR5OiAwLjE7Ii8+PC9zdmc+)](https://hurawatch.us.org/) [Search](https://hurawatch.us.org/catch-22-1970/) - [Home](https://hurawatch.us.org/) - [Movies](https://hurawatch.us.org/movies/) - [Popular](https://hurawatch.us.org/category/popular/) - [Blog](https://hurawatch.us.org/blog/) - [Genres](https://hurawatch.us.org/genres/) - [Home](https://hurawatch.us.org/) - [Movies](https://hurawatch.us.org/category/movies/) - Catch-22 (1970) # Catch-22 (1970) [Leave a Comment](https://hurawatch.us.org/catch-22-1970/#respond) / [Movies](https://hurawatch.us.org/category/movies/) / By [Tony Stark](https://hurawatch.us.org/author/tony-stark/ "View all posts by Tony Stark") ![Catch-22-(1970)](data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSIxMDI0IiBoZWlnaHQ9IjU3NiIgdmlld0JveD0iMCAwIDEwMjQgNTc2Ij48cmVjdCB3aWR0aD0iMTAwJSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxMDAlIiBzdHlsZT0iZmlsbDojY2ZkNGRiO2ZpbGwtb3BhY2l0eTogMC4xOyIvPjwvc3ZnPg==) Catch-22 (1970) A wry and sarcastic (and thick as hell) book about the ridiculous duplicity of war? Sounds like a movie to me. And so it did to Mike Nichols and Buck Henry, collaborators on The Graduate who conspired once again to make one of the greats of cinema. While Catch-22 has none of the cachet of other war movies (and we’ll get to that…), it’s by far one of the best out there, ranking with Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, and Apocalypse Now as one of the greats. If you’ve never read Joseph Heller’s masterpiece of a novel, it’ll take some explaining to make Catch-22 make sense to you. As the title suggests or rather, as the title inspired a phrase that entered into the American lexicon our hero Yossarian (Alan Arkin) is trapped by a paradox. As a bombardier who’s ready to get out of the Mediterannean during WWII after doing his time, he implores the base doctor (Jack Gilford) to pronounce him insane so he can be shipped home. Since the rules state that insane men can’t fly combat missions, he’s home free, right? Unfortunately, there’s a catch: any man who tries to get out of combat must not be insane, and therefore he has to fly. That’s just the beginning. Catch-22 spirals increasingly out of control, as over-the-top ridiculousness takes hold of the base and all of its crew. The terminus of this occurs when Milo Minderbinder (Jon Voight, perhaps the best part of the film) engineers the bombing of his base in order to get the Germans to buy warehouses full of chocolate-covered cotton that he has foolishly purchases (by trading the parachutes, morphine, and diesel engines lying around). Milo’s “syndicate” speaks to the arrogance and greed of government not only in wartime, but in the everyday world. For more movies like Catch-22 (1970) visit [Hurawatch](https://hurawatch.us.org/). Also watch: - [Charade (1963)](https://hurawatch.us.org/charade-1963/) - [Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003)](https://hurawatch.us.org/charlies-angels-full-throttle-2003/) - [Catch That Kid (2004)](https://hurawatch.us.org/catch-that-kid-2004/) - [Center Stage (2000)](https://hurawatch.us.org/center-stage-2000/) - [Cecil B. 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Readable Markdown	![Catch-22-(1970)](data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSIxMDI0IiBoZWlnaHQ9IjU3NiIgdmlld0JveD0iMCAwIDEwMjQgNTc2Ij48cmVjdCB3aWR0aD0iMTAwJSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxMDAlIiBzdHlsZT0iZmlsbDojY2ZkNGRiO2ZpbGwtb3BhY2l0eTogMC4xOyIvPjwvc3ZnPg==) Catch-22 (1970) A wry and sarcastic (and thick as hell) book about the ridiculous duplicity of war? Sounds like a movie to me. And so it did to Mike Nichols and Buck Henry, collaborators on The Graduate who conspired once again to make one of the greats of cinema. While Catch-22 has none of the cachet of other war movies (and we’ll get to that…), it’s by far one of the best out there, ranking with Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, and Apocalypse Now as one of the greats. If you’ve never read Joseph Heller’s masterpiece of a novel, it’ll take some explaining to make Catch-22 make sense to you. As the title suggests or rather, as the title inspired a phrase that entered into the American lexicon our hero Yossarian (Alan Arkin) is trapped by a paradox. As a bombardier who’s ready to get out of the Mediterannean during WWII after doing his time, he implores the base doctor (Jack Gilford) to pronounce him insane so he can be shipped home. Since the rules state that insane men can’t fly combat missions, he’s home free, right? Unfortunately, there’s a catch: any man who tries to get out of combat must not be insane, and therefore he has to fly. That’s just the beginning. Catch-22 spirals increasingly out of control, as over-the-top ridiculousness takes hold of the base and all of its crew. The terminus of this occurs when Milo Minderbinder (Jon Voight, perhaps the best part of the film) engineers the bombing of his base in order to get the Germans to buy warehouses full of chocolate-covered cotton that he has foolishly purchases (by trading the parachutes, morphine, and diesel engines lying around). Milo’s “syndicate” speaks to the arrogance and greed of government not only in wartime, but in the everyday world. For more movies like Catch-22 (1970) visit [Hurawatch](https://hurawatch.us.org/). Also watch: - [Charade (1963)](https://hurawatch.us.org/charade-1963/) - [Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003)](https://hurawatch.us.org/charlies-angels-full-throttle-2003/) - [Catch That Kid (2004)](https://hurawatch.us.org/catch-that-kid-2004/) - [Center Stage (2000)](https://hurawatch.us.org/center-stage-2000/) - [Cecil B. DeMented (2000)](https://hurawatch.us.org/cecil-b-demented-2000/)
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