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iscovers that his wife once sought the services of an abortionist whom he is trying to convict of malpractice. Credits: Producer and director, William Wyler; screenplay, Philip Yordan, Robert Wyler; editor, Robert Swink. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix; Cathy O'Donnell, Bert Freed

Registration LP1309 Renewed

Term began
1951-11-01
Claimant
Paramount Pictures Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE25391 filed 1979-04-05 by Paramount Pictures Corporation (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6922874)
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 RE25391 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Paramount Pictures Corporation (PWH)
Renewal date
1979-04-05
Original cited
LP1309 / 1951-11-01
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6922874: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE25391, registered 1979-04-05, for original registration LP1309 published 1951-11-01.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 33040–33052.

has an uncompromising hatred of evil, dis- 
covers that his wife once sought the services 
of an abortionist whom he is trying to con- 
vict of malpractice. 

Credits: Producer and director, William 
Wyler; screenplay, Philip Yordan, Robert 
Wyler; editor, Robert Swink. Cast: Kirk 
Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix; 
Cathy O'Donnell, Bert Freed. 

© Paramount Pictures Corp.; 1Nov51; 
LP1309. 

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