Public Reel

DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK

d a young pilot who spend an evening with her in a New York hotel. Credits: Producer, Julian Blaustein; director, Roy Baker; screenplay, Daniel Taradash; music director, Lionel Newman; film editor, George A. Gittens. Cast: Richard Widmark, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Bancroft, Donna Corcoran, Jeanne Cagney

Registration LP1928 Renewed

Term began
1952-07-25
Claimant
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE57892 filed 1980-06-30 by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6955368)
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 RE57892 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-06-30
Original cited
LP1928 / 1952-07-25
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6955368: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE57892, registered 1980-06-30, for original registration LP1928 published 1952-07-25.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 38711–38722.

child and a young pilot who spend an evening 
with her in a New York hotel. 

Credits: Producer, Julian Blaustein; 
director, Roy Baker; screenplay, Daniel 
Taradash; music director, Lionel Newman; 
film editor, George A. Gittens. Cast: Rich- 
ard Widmark, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Ban- 
croft, Donna Corcoran, Jeanne Cagney. 

© Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 
25Jul52; LP1928. 

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