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- ↑ Under the Tonto Rim, afi.com. Accessed November 13, 2022.
- ↑ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, (<-book title) p. 192, c. 1978 by The American Film Institute.
