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- ↑ Robert Fothergill, "125 Rooms of Comfort: A long review of a film you'll probably never get to see". Cinema Canada , No. 18 (March/April 1975). pp. 58-59.
- ↑ "Competing as Canada's best". The Globe and Mail , October 9, 1975.