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- ↑ "Harry Alan Towers: Film, TV and radio producer and scriptwriter who rose from adapting the Fu Manchu novels to making Cry, the Beloved Country". The Times , August 5, 2009
- ↑ Harry Alan Towers interview, Man of Mystery bonus featurette on Criterion DVD of Mr. Arkadin (2006)
- ↑ Orson Welles and Others, The Lives of Harry Lime (Pocket Books, London, 1952) contents page
- ↑ Robert Arden interview, Men of Mystery, Documentary on the making of Mr. Arkadin (2006) - DVD extra on the Criterion edition