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- 1 2 3 4 Steve Chibnall & Brian McFarlane, The British 'B' Film, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2009, pp. 96–101.
- ↑ The Films of Stanley Morgan Stanley Morgan website
- ↑ memoirs Stanley Morgan website
- ↑ "Merton Park Studios". TV Studio History. Retrieved 2025-01-18.
