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st escapes to a small town and assumes another identity while his wife stands trial for his murder. Credits: Producer, Leo C. Popkin; director, Arthur Lubin; screenplay Dorothy Reid, Jay Dratler; film editor, Arthur Nadel, Cast: Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn, Helen Walker, Anna May Wong

Registration LP2266 No renewal found

Term began

1949-04-01

Claimant

Cardinal Pictures, Inc

Class

LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun 1946)

Finding

no renewal entry found for 1976-1978 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025

In the public domain since

1 January 1978 (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 1976 or 1977 volume; volumes searched: 1976, 1977, 1978.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1949, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri331213libr (OCR text), lines 5841–5853.

escapes to a small town and assumes 
another identity while his wife stands 
trial for his murder. 

Credits: Producer, Leo C. Popkin; 
director, Arthur Lubin; screenplay 
Dorothy Reid, Jay Dratler; film editor, 
Arthur Nadel, Cast: Brian Donlevy, Ella 
Raines, Charles Coburn, Helen Walker, 
Anna May Wong. 

© Cardinal Pictures, Inc.; 1Apr49 (in 
notice: 1948); LP2266. 

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