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- 1 2 David Stratton, The Last New Wave: The Australian Film Revival, Angus & Robertson, 1980 p147-149
- ↑ Australian Films at the Box Office - Report to Film Victoria accessed 5 Oct 2012
- ↑ "The Irishman" – via www.imdb.com.
- ↑ "Interview with Donald Crombie", Signet, 18 December 1998 accessed 16 November 2012
- ↑ Peter Beilby & Scott Murray, "Donald Crombie", Cinema Papers, Oct-Nov 1978 p131-132
