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- ↑ The Crime at Blossoms notes, ftvdb.bfi.org.uk; accessed 24 July 2015.
- ↑ "Dark Secret (1949) - Maclean Rogers - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie".
- ↑ "The Crime at Blossoms (1933) - Maclean Rogers - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie".
- ↑ "The Crime At Blossoms".
