Public Reel

THE STEEL CAGE

THE STEEL CAGE, Phoenix Films. Released by United Artists Corp. 86 min., sd., b&w, 35 mm. Based on the book The San Quentin story, by Clinton T; Duffy and Dean Jennings

Registration LP4096 Renewed

Term began
1954-10-10
Claimant
Phoenix Films, inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE82089 filed 1981-02-17 by Warner Brothers, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6979565)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2050 (95 years from the 1954 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 RE82089 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Warner Brothers, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1981-02-17
Original cited
LP4096 / 1954-10-10
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6979565: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE82089, registered 1981-02-17, for original registration LP4096 published 1954-10-10.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1954, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig381213lib (OCR text), lines 36432–36439.

THE STEEL CAGE, Phoenix Films. Re- 
leased by United Artists Corp. 86 min., 
sd., b&w, 35 mm. Based on the book The 
San Quentin story, by Clinton T; Duffy and 
Dean Jennings. 

© Phoenix Films, inc.; 100ct54 (in notice; 
1953); LP4096. 

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