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- ↑ "Canadian-made Films". Variety. March 24, 1959. p. 4. Retrieved June 18, 2019– via Archive.org.
- ↑ Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film, ed. Wyndham Wise, University of Toronto Press, 2001, p. 83
- ↑ "Historicist: Sidney Furie and A Dangerous Age". Torontoist, April 4, 2015.
- ↑ "Cool Sounds from the Vault: A Cinematic Detective Story". Filmmaker , June 23, 2014.
- ↑ "Critic's Notebook: Toronto, Telluride and Venice Film Fests Promise Riches After Cruel Summer". The Hollywood Reporter , August 29, 2016.
