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- 1 2 3 4 Honour in Pawn - British Film Institute database
- ↑ Alan Goble (ed), The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film, Bowker Saur (1999) - Google Books pg. 315
- 1 2 3 Denis Gifford, The British Film Catalogue: The Fiction Film 1895-1994, Routledge (2001) - Google Books
- ↑ Rachael Low, The History of British Film 1914-1918 (Volume 3)', Routledge (2011) - Google Books pg. 289
