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- ↑ "The Ragged Messenger" – via www.imdb.com.
- ↑ Gifford, Denis (1 April 2016). British Film Catalogue: Two Volume Set - The Fiction Film/The Non-Fiction Film. Routledge. ISBN 9781317740629 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "The Ragged Messenger (1917)". Archived from the original on 27 May 2009.
