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- ↑ Wise, Wyndham (2001). Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 38. ISBN 0-8020-8398-6.
- ↑ Censored! Only in Canada by Malcolm Dean, Virgo Press, 1981.
- ↑ Seiler 2013, p. 149.
