TOO LATE FOR TEARS
Summary: A melodrama of blackmail, murder, and sudden death. Credits: Producer, Hunt Stromberg; director, Byron Haskin; screenplay, Roy Huggins; music, Dale Butts; music director, Morton Scott; film editor, Harry Keller, Cast: Lizabeth Scott, Don De- Fore, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy, Kristine Miller
Registration LP2379 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1949-07-08
- Claimant
- Streamline 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 37668–37686.
Summary: A melodrama of blackmail, murder, and sudden death. Credits: Producer, Hunt Stromberg; 100 director, Byron Haskin; screenplay, Roy Huggins; music, Dale Butts; music direc- tor, Morton Scott; film editor, Harry Keller, Cast: Lizabeth Scott, Don De- Fore, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy, Kristine Miller. © Streamline Pictures, Inc. ; 8Jul49; LP2379.
Copies on the Internet Archive
| Item | Year | Downloads | Collection |
|---|---|---|---|
| Too Late For Tears ( 1949) | 1949 | 19,918 | Film_Noir, feature_films |
| Too Late For Tears (1949) [P&M] 720p Blu-Ray (700MB) | 1949 | 4,686 | Film_Noir, feature_films |
| Too Late for Tears (1949) | 1949 | 968 | feature_films_unsorted, feature_films |
| Killer Bait / Too Late For Tears (Colourised) | 1949 | 614 | Film_Noir, feature_films |
| Too Late For Tears ( 1949) | 1949 | 292 | opensource_movies, fav-bill_k664 |
Matched by title and year on 5 September 2026; check that the item is this film and not a remake or a trailer.