Public Reel

BEST OF THE BADMEN

dits: Producer, Herman Schlom; director, William D. Russell; screenplay, Robert Hardy Andrews, John Twist; story, Robert Hardy Andrews; music, Paul Sawtell; music director, C. Bakaleinikoff; film editor, Desmond Marquette. Cast: Robert Ryan, Claire Trevor, Jack Buetel, Robert Preston, Walter Brennan

Registration LP1057 Renewed

Term began
1951-06-09
Claimant
RKO Radio Pictures, Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE42681 filed 1979-12-19 by RKO General, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6940162)
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 RE42681 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
RKO General, Inc.
Renewal date
1979-12-19
Original cited
LP1057 / 1951-06-09
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6940162: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE42681, registered 1979-12-19, for original registration LP1057 published 1951-06-09.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 31101–31111.

Credits: Producer, Herman Schlom; 
director, William D. Russell; screenplay, 
Robert Hardy Andrews, John Twist; story, 
Robert Hardy Andrews; music, Paul Saw- 
tell; music director, C. Bakaleinikoff; film 
editor, Desmond Marquette. Cast: Robert 
Ryan, Claire Trevor, Jack Buetel, Robert 
Preston, Walter Brennan. 

© RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.; 9Jun51; 
LP1057. 

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