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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Colin Larkin, ed. (2002). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Fifties Music (Third ed.). Virgin Books. p. 140/1. ISBN 1-85227-937-0.
- ↑ "Flanagan and Allen (The Crazy Gang)". Turnipnet.com. Retrieved 15 November 2007.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 18 July 2018. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ David R. Sutton – A Chorus of Raspberries: British Film Comedy 1929–1939, 2000, p. 137; "Flanagan and Allen, the most famous of the three duos, had graduated from bargain-basement shorts such as The Bailiffs (1933) (a pretty rudimentary film of an old Fred Karno routine) and The Dreamers (1934), to features such as A Fire Has .."
