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- ↑ "PLAYERS, PLAYS AND PICTURES". The Herald . Victoria, Australia. 24 April 1937. p. 30. Retrieved 13 May 2020– via Trove.
- ↑ BFI Database
- ↑ Cook p.192
- ↑ "WORLD MARKET". The Sun . New South Wales, Australia. 5 June 1936. p. 17 (COUNTRY EDITION). Retrieved 13 May 2020– via Trove.
- ↑ "BRITISH FILM "KING" LOOKS AHEAD". The Herald . Victoria, Australia. 26 June 1936. p. 6. Retrieved 13 May 2020– via Trove.
- ↑ "Remaking the Canadian Pacific Railway on the Screen". The Queenslander . Queensland, Australia. 4 March 1937. p. 12. Retrieved 13 May 2020– via Trove.
- ↑ "Miss BARBARA GREENE". The Telegraph . Queensland, Australia. 20 June 1936. p. 11 (LAST CITY CABLE NEWS). Retrieved 13 May 2020– via Trove.
- ↑ Greene, Graham (12 February 1937). "The Plainsman/The Great Barrier". The Spectator . (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. Oxford University Press. p. 132. ISBN 0192812866.)
