Public Reel

MAN BAIT

A manager ofa London book shop is involved in blackmail and murder. Credits: Producer, Anthony Hinds; director, Terence Fisher; screenplay, Frederick Knott; music, Frank Spencer; film editor, Maurice Rootes. Cast: George Brent, Marguerite Chapman, Raymond Huntley, Peter Reynolds, Eleanor Summerfield

Registration LP1484 Renewed

Term began
1952-02-11
Claimant
Exclusive Films, Ltd
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE43116 filed 1980-01-03 by Weiss Global Enterprises (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6940592)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2048 (95 years from the 1952 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 RE43116 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Weiss Global Enterprises (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-01-03
Original cited
LP1484 / 1952-02-11
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6940592: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE43116, registered 1980-01-03, for original registration LP1484 published 1952-02-11.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 10394–10405.

Summary: A melodrama. A manager ofa 
London book shop is involved in blackmail 
and murder. 

Credits: Producer, Anthony Hinds; direc- 
tor, Terence Fisher; screenplay, Frederick 
Knott; music, Frank Spencer; film editor, 
Maurice Rootes. Cast: George Brent, Mar- 
guerite Chapman, Raymond Huntley, Peter 
Reynolds, Eleanor Summerfield. 

© Exclusive Films, Ltd.; 11Feb52; LP1484. 

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