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- ↑ "BARGAIN WITH BULLETS". Library of Congress.
- ↑ Butters, Gerald R. (September 8, 2007). Banned in Kansas: Motion Picture Censorship, 1915-1966. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 9780826266033 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "Bargain With Bullets (1937)". October 30, 1937. p. 24 – via newspapers.com.
