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Quicksand (1950)

Name: Quicksand
Genre: Crime & Mystery
Released: 1950
Duration: 1 h 19 min
Cast: Peter Lorre, Mickey Rooney, Barbara Bates, Taylor Holmes, Jeanne Cagney

195079 minCrime & MysteryStrong rights evidence

Quicksand (1950) is a 79-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 Irving Pichel.

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About Quicksand (1950)

Quicksand is a 1950 American film noir that stars Mickey Rooney and Peter Lorre and portrays a garage mechanic's descent into crime. It was directed by Irving Pichel.

Dan Brady (Mickey Rooney), a young auto mechanic in California, "borrows" $20 ($268 today) from the cash register at his job to pay for a date with blonde femme fatale Vera Novak (Jeanne Cagney), who works at a nearby diner. In a scheme to return the pilfered $20, Dan decides to pay only one dollar as a down payment at a jewelry store for a $100 wristwatch ($1,338 today), a deal that requires him to sign a sales contract to buy the watch over time with regular installment payments.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Quicksand (1950 film) (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Credits

Directed by: Irving Pichel
Cast includes: Peter Lorre, Mickey Rooney, Barbara Bates, Taylor Holmes, Jeanne Cagney
Country: United States

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Case Files - CH 9, Crime & Mystery TV

Rights & source

Basis: Documented as U.S. public domain (e.g. copyright not renewed / no notice)
Evidence: Listed in Wikipedia 'List of films in the public domain in the United States' (cites Pierce 2007 / Fishman / trade sources).
License on source: creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0
Music: Film soundtrack falls with the film; separately published songs (if any) not individually cleared.
Source: Internet Archive

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