Public Reel

THUNDER IN GOD'S COUNTRY

A crusading newspaper editor is murdered because he attempts to clean up local politics. Credits: Associate producer, Melville Tucker; director, George Blair; screenplay, Arthur E. Orloff; music, Stanley Wilson; film editor, Harold Minter. Cast: Rex Allen, Mary Ellen Kay, Buddy Ebsen, Jan MacDonald

Registration LP828 Renewed

Term began
1951-03-23
Claimant
Republic Pictures Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE18066 filed 1979-03-30 by Repix, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of National Telefilm Associates, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6915549)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2047 (95 years from the 1951 publication)

A renewal registration for this work was found. The renewed term lasts 95 years from the original date, so the work remains under copyright.

Renewal RE18066 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Repix, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of National Telefilm Associates, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1979-03-30
Original cited
LP828 / 1951-03-23
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6915549: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE18066, registered 1979-03-30, for original registration LP828 published 1951-03-23.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 18932–18944.

Summary: A Western. A crusading news- 
paper editor is murdered because he at- 
tempts to clean up local politics. 

Credits: Associate producer, Melville 
Tucker; director, George Blair; screen- 
play, Arthur E. Orloff; music, Stanley 
Wilson; film editor, Harold Minter. Cast: 
Rex Allen, Mary Ellen Kay, Buddy Ebsen, 
Jan MacDonald. 

© Republic Pictures Corp.; 23Mar51; 
LP828. i 

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