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- ↑ "The Bushranger (1928) - Overview - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved November 8, 2014.
- ↑ "TIM McCOY IN "THE BUSHRANGER"". The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder . Vol. 14, no. 1419. New South Wales, Australia. May 24, 1929. p. 5. Retrieved July 16, 2019– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ ""The Bushranger": Australia in Hollywood". Sydney Mail . Vol. XXXIV, no. 877. New South Wales, Australia. January 16, 1929. p. 20. Retrieved July 16, 2019– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Australia in Hollywood". The Sydney Mail . Vol. XXXIII, no. 844. New South Wales, Australia. May 30, 1928. p. 22. Retrieved July 16, 2019– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Film Theatres and Players". The Sydney Mail . Vol. XXXIII, no. 846. New South Wales, Australia. June 13, 1928. p. 26. Retrieved July 16, 2019– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Westerns changing locale". Variety. March 28, 1928. p. 9.
- ↑ "Films get Beauty of Antipodes" The Los Angeles Times, January 27, 1928, Page 2. Retrieved July 7, 2020
