MURDER WILL OUT
MURDER WILL OUT. First National and Vitaphone. 1930. 7 reels, sd. Adapted from the story "The Purple Hieroglyph" by Murray Leinster [pseud. of William Fitzgerald Jenkins].
Director, Clarence Badger; adaptation, J. Grubb Alexander.
Registration LP1343 Copyright term expired
- Term began
- 1930-05-10
- Claimant
- First National Pictures, Inc
- Class
- LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
- Finding
- copyright term began 1930-05-10; the maximum term (28 + 67 years) ended before 2026-01-01
- In the public domain since
- 1 January 2026 (maximum 95-year term from 1930)
The copyright term began before 1931. Under US law every such term, renewed or not, ended before 2026-01-01.
Renewal R197086 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)
- Renewal claimant
- Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc (PWH)
- Renewal date
- 1957-08-09
- Original cited
- L1343 / 10May30
- Source
- Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1957: Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3111213li, OCR text line 46960
MURDER WILL OUT, a photoplay in seven reels by First National Pic- tures. © 10May30; L1343. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. (PWH); 9Aug57; R197086. MUSH AGAIN, a photoplay in two reels
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 158818–158825.
MURDER WILL OUT. First National and Vitaphone. 1930. 7 reels, sd.
Adapted from the story "The Purple Hieroglyph" by Murray Leinster
[pseud. of William Fitzgerald Jenkins].
Credits: Director, Clarence Badger; adaptation, J. Grubb Alexander.
© First National Pictures, Inc.; 10May30; LP1343.
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