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- ↑ "90-MINUTE MOVIES". The Australian Women's Weekly . Australia. 23 July 1975. p. 12. Retrieved 4 January 2020– via Trove.
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- ↑ Plummer, Dale (4 April 1976). "$2 million in feature film program". Sydney Morning Herald. p. 100.