MY OUTLAW BROTHER

Texas Ranger stalks a killer, whose true identity a visiting city brother fails to suspect. Credits: Producer, Benedict Bogeaus; director, Elliott Nugent; screenplay, Gene Fowler, Jr.; music, Manuel Esperon; film editor, George Crome. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Wanda Hendrix, Robert Preston, Robert Stack

Registration LP801 No renewal found

Term began

1951-03-15

Claimant

Benedict Bogeaus Pictures, Inc

Class

LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)

Finding

no renewal entry found for 1978-1980 or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025

In the public domain since

1 January 1980 (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 1978 or 1979 volume; volumes searched: 1978, 1979, 1980.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 12075–12087.

A Texas Ranger stalks a killer, whose true 
identity a visiting city brother fails to sus- 
pect. 

Credits: Producer, Benedict Bogeaus; 
director, Elliott Nugent; screenplay, Gene 
Fowler, Jr.; music, Manuel Esperon; film 
editor, George Crome. Cast: Mickey 
Rooney, Wanda Hendrix, Robert Preston, 
Robert Stack. 

© Benedict Bogeaus Pictures, Inc.; 
15Mar51; LP801, 

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