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Impact (1949)

Name: Impact
Genre: Crime & Mystery
Released: 1949
Duration: 1 h 50 min
Cast: Mae Marsh, Anna May Wong, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn, Robert Warwick

1949111 minCrime & MysteryStrong rights evidence★ Prime-time headliner

Impact (1949) is a 111-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 Arthur Lubin.

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About Impact (1949)

Impact is a 1949 American film noir drama film starring Brian Donlevy and Ella Raines. Directed by Arthur Lubin, it was shot entirely in Northern California, including scenes in Sausalito at Larkspur in Marin County, on Nob Hill in San Francisco, and throughout the Bay area.

Powerhouse millionaire industrialist Walter Williams gets his board of directors to bend to his will without ever breaking a sweat. He has a beautiful young wife, Irene, whom he dotes on, and a seemingly perfect life together in San Francisco. Walt has business in Denver, and Irene accepts his invitation to go along and turn the scenic ride over the mountains via Lake Tahoe into a mini-vacation. At the last moment, she feigns illness, then asks him instead to give a ride to her poor "cousin" (ostensibly her aunt's favorite nephew) hitchhiking his way home to Evanston, Illinois.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Impact (1949 film) (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Credits

Directed by: Arthur Lubin
Cast includes: Mae Marsh, Anna May Wong, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn, Robert Warwick, Brian Donlevy, Philip Ahn, Art Baker
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 1976-78 or in Copyright Office records 1978-2025 (automated reading; ~5-8% residual miss rate per its own audit). Evidence: https://publicreel.org/film/285229/evidence/77800364
Music: Film soundtrack falls with the film; separately published songs (if any) not individually cleared.
Underlying rights: Original story by Jay Dratler written for the screen.
Source: Internet Archive

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