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- ↑ Rafaelle Caputo, "The Nun and the Bandit", Cinema Papers,August 1993 p9-10, 60
- ↑ Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p155
- 1 2 The Nun and the Bandit (1992). Ozmovies. Retrieved 2019-12-21.
- ↑ "Interview with Paul Cox", Signet, 13 January 2001 Archived 9 December 2012 at archive.today accessed 18 November 2012
