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- ↑ Shaun Benson at National Archives of Australia
- ↑ "'Crime on Celluloid'". Advocate. Vol. LXXVIII, no. 4699. 22 August 1945. p. 18. Retrieved 11 February 2024– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Radio". South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus. Vol. LI, no. 67. 3 September 1951. p. 2. Retrieved 27 January 2024– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Hoyts Theatres to Show Film of A.B.C.", ABC Weekly, 17 December 1955, retrieved 11 February 2024– via Trove
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