BRUTE FORCE

b&w., 35mm. Froma story by Robert Patterson. Credits: Producer, Mark Hellinger; director, Jules Dassin; film editor, Edward Curtiss; screenplay, Richard Brooks; music, Miklos Rozsa, Cast: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo, Ann Blyth, Ella Raines, Anita Colby, and others

Registration LP1086 No renewal found

Term began

1947-06-25

Claimant

Universal Pictures Co., Inc., New York

Class

LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun 1946)

Finding

no renewal entry found for 1974-1976 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections

In the public domain since

1 January 1976 (end of the 28th year, no renewal)

A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and no matching renewal was found. A work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year.

A renewal had to be filed in the 28th year and would be listed in the 1974 or 1975 volume; volumes searched: 1974, 1975, 1976.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1947, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig31121libr (OCR text), lines 15186–15199.

Co., Inc., 1947. 98 min., sd., b&w., 
35mm. Froma story by Robert Pat- 
terson. 

Credits: Producer, Mark Hellinger; 
director, Jules Dassin; film editor, 
Edward Curtiss; screenplay, Richard 
Brooks; music, Miklos Rozsa, Cast: 
Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles 
Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo, Ann Blyth, 
Ella Raines, Anita Colby, and others. 

© Universal Pictures Co., Inc., 
New York; 25Jun47; LP1086. 

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