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// where '50' is the category id to pull from

<?php $_productCollection =  $products = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load(50)
 ->getProductCollection()
 ->addAttributeToSelect('*')
 ->addAttributeToFilter('status', 1)
 ->addAttributeToFilter('visibility', 4);
?>

<?php $_helper = $this->helper('catalog/output'); ?>

<?php if ($_productCollection->count() != 0) { ?>

	<?php foreach ($_productCollection as $_product) { ?> 
		
		<?php $_productNameStripped = $this->stripTags($_product->getName(), null, true); ?>
			
		<div class="product-item">						
			<div class="product-img"><img src="<?php echo $this->helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'small_image')->resize(300); ?>" width="300" height="300" alt="<?php echo $_productNameStripped; ?>" /></div>
			
			<div class="product-name">
				<a href="<?php echo $_product->getProductUrl(); ?>" title="<?php echo $_productNameStripped; ?>"><?php echo $_helper->productAttribute($_product, $_product->getName() , 'name'); ?></a>
				
				<?php 
				$reviewHelper = $this->getLayout()->createBlock('review/helper');
				echo $reviewHelper->getSummaryHtml($_product, false, true);
				?>
				
			</div>
	
		</div>
		
	<?php	} ?>
	
<?php } ?>