FEAR AND DESIRE
rs as they endeavor to escape from behind enemy lines. Filmed in the San Gabriel Mountains and on a river at Bakersfield, Calif. Credits: Associate producer, Martin Perveler; screenplay, Howard Sackler; music, Gerald Fried. Cast: Frank Silvera, Kenneth Harp, Paul Mazursky, Steve Coit, Virginia Leith
Registration LP2595 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1953-03-30
- Claimant
- Martin Perveler
- Class
- LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
- Finding
- no renewal entry found for 1980-1982 or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025
- In the public domain since
- 1 January 1982 (end of the 28th year, no renewal)
A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and no matching renewal was found. A work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year.
A renewal had to be filed in the 28th year and would be listed in the 1980 or 1981 volume; volumes searched: 1980, 1981, 1982.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 5957–5972.
four soldiers as they endeavor to escape from behind enemy lines. Filmed in the San Gabriel Mountains and on a river at Bakers- field, Calif. Credits: Associate producer, Martin Perveler; screenplay, Howard Sackler; music, Gerald Fried. Cast: Frank Silvera, Kenneth Harp, Paul Mazursky, Steve Coit, Virginia Leith. © Martin Perveler; 30Mar53 (in notice: 1952); LP2595.
Copies on the Internet Archive
| Item | Year | Downloads | Collection |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fear and Desire | 1953 | 16,918 | feature_films_unsorted, feature_films |
| Fear And Desire (1953) | 1953 | 16,580 | Film_Noir, feature_films |
| Fear And Desire (1953) | 1953 | 11,676 | feature_films_unsorted, feature_films |
| Fear And Desire (1953) | 1953 | 4,122 | opensource_movies, community |
| Fear and Desire (1952) | 1952 | 412 | opensource_movies, fav-dante719 |
Matched by title and year on 5 September 2026; check that the item is this film and not a remake or a trailer.