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- ↑ She Shall Have Music , British Film Institute
- ↑ Slide, Anthony (1998). Banned in the U.S.A.: British Films in the United States and their Censorship, 1933-1966. London: I. B. Tauris. p. 177. ISBN 1-86064-254-3.
