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Dressed to Kill (1946)

Name: Dressed to Kill
Genre: Crime & Mystery
Released: 1946
Duration: 1 h 8 min
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Ian Wolfe, Patricia Morison, Mary Gordon, Marjorie Bennett

194669 minCrime & MysteryStrong rights evidence★ Prime-time headliner

Dressed to Kill (1946) is a 69-minute crime and mystery film that airs free on Starlite TV's Case Files (CH 9) channel. Our rights research indicates it is in the U.S. public domain (evidence below). Directed by Roy William Neill.

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About Dressed to Kill (1946)

Dressed to Kill is a 1946 American mystery film directed by Roy William Neill. Released by Universal Pictures, it is the last of fourteen films starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson.

John Davidson, a convicted thief in Dartmoor prison, embeds code revealing the hidden location of extremely valuable stolen Bank of England currency printing plates in the melody notes of three music boxes that he crafts to be sold at auction. Each box plays a subtly different version of an Australian tune, "The Swagman". At the auction each is purchased by a different buyer.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Dressed to Kill (1946 film) (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Credits

Directed by: Roy William Neill
Cast includes: Basil Rathbone, Ian Wolfe, Patricia Morison, Mary Gordon, Marjorie Bennett, Nigel Bruce, Harry Cording, Holmes Herbert
Country: United States

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Case Files - CH 9, Crime & Mystery TV

Rights & source

Basis: Published 1931-1963 with no copyright renewal found (renewal-record search cited below)
Evidence: Public Reel: registration found, no renewal found 1973-75 -> PD from 1975 (automated reading). All Conan Doyle Holmes stories are PD in the US (since 1 Jan 2023). Evidence: https://publicreel.org/film/85743/evidence/73124563
License on source: creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain
Music: Film soundtrack falls with the film; separately published songs (if any) not individually cleared.
Underlying rights: Commonly reported PD; not on reference list.
Source: Internet Archive

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