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BAD BLONDE

s infatuated with a young prizefighter whom she encourages to murder her husband. Credits: Producer, Anthony Hinds; director, Reginald Le Borg; screenplay, Guy Elmes, Richard Landau; music, Ivor Slaney; editor, James Needs. Cast: Barbara Payton, Frederick Valk, John Slater, Sidney James, Tony Wright

Registration LP2524 Renewed

Term began
1953-04-22
Claimant
Exclusive Films, ltd
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE68223 filed 1980-11-03 by Weiss Global Enterprises (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6965699)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2049 (95 years from the 1953 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 RE68223 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.05)

Renewal claimant
Weiss Global Enterprises (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-11-03
Original cited
LP2524 / 1953-04-22
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6965699: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE68223, registered 1980-11-03, for original registration LP2524 published 1953-04-22.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 1702–1714.

English fight promoter becomes infatuated 
with a young prizefighter whom she encour- 
ages to murder her husband. 

Credits: Producer, Anthony Hinds; direc- 
tor, Reginald Le Borg; screenplay, Guy 
Elmes, Richard Landau; music, Ivor Slaney; 
editor, James Needs. Cast: Barbara Payton, 
Frederick Valk, John Slater, Sidney James, 
Tony Wright. 

© Exclusive Films, ltd.; 22Apr53 (in notice: 
1952); LP2524. 

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