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- ↑ Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 20 No 4, 2000 p 498
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- 1 2 Monthly Film Bulletin, December 1952
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- ↑ Anthony Aldgate and James Crighton Robertson, Censorship in Theatre and Cinema, Edinburgh University Press, 2005
- ↑ Tony Aldgate, 'Women of Twilight, Cosh Boy and the advent of the 'X' certificate', Journal of Popular British Cinema March 2000
- ↑ Brian McFarlane, An Autobiography of British Cinema, Methuen, 1997
- ↑ unsigned review, Daily Herald, 16 January 1953
- ↑ Thomas Spencer, 'Baby-farmer', Daily Worker, 17 January 1953
- ↑ Harris Deans in The Sunday Dispatch, 18 January 1953
- ↑ Campbell Dixon in The Daily Telegraph, 19 January 1953
- ↑ Roy Nash in The Star, 16 January 1953
- ↑ Ray Nunn in The Daily Sketch, 16 January 1953
- ↑ Virginia Graham in The Spectator, 16 January 1953