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- 1 2 "Gang War (1940) | UC Berkeley Library". www.lib.berkeley.edu.
- ↑ "'Race' Movies: Separate and Unequaled". Los Angeles Times. June 28, 1998.
- ↑ "Gang War". www.tcm.com.