Public Reel

DEAD MAN'S TALE, LP2096

crime syndicate before his paper is sold to rival interests. Credits: Producer, Sol C. Siegel; directed and written by Richard Brooks; music, Cyril Mockridge; music director, Lionel Newman; film editor, William B. Murphy. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore, Kim Hunter, Ed Begley, Warren Stevens

Registration LP1802 Renewed

Term began
1952-03-14
Claimant
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE57216 filed 1980-03-14 by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6954692)
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 RE57216 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.19)

Renewal claimant
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-03-14
Original cited
LP1802 / 1952-03-14
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6954692: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE57216, registered 1980-03-14, for original registration LP1802 published 1952-03-14.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 38264–38275.

racketeer leader of a crime syndicate be- 
fore his paper is sold to rival interests. 

Credits: Producer, Sol C. Siegel; directed 
and written by Richard Brooks; music, 
Cyril Mockridge; music director, Lionel 
Newman; film editor, William B. Murphy. 
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore, 
Kim Hunter, Ed Begley, Warren Stevens. 

© Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 
14Mar52; LP1802. 

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