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Sinners in Paradise (1938)

Name: Sinners in Paradise
Genre: Classic Drama
Released: 1938
Duration: 1 h 3 min
Cast: John Boles, Bruce Cabot, Madge Evans, Don "Red" Barry, Milburn Stone

193864 minClassic DramaStrong rights evidence

Sinners in Paradise (1938) is a 64-minute classic film that airs free on Starlite TV's Silver Screen (CH 2) channel. Our rights research indicates it is in the U.S. public domain (evidence below). Directed by James Whale.

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About Sinners in Paradise (1938)

Sinners in Paradise is a 1938 American South Seas adventure film directed by James Whale and starring Madge Evans, John Boles, Bruce Cabot, Marion Martin, and Gene Lockhart. In 1966, the film entered the public domain in the United States because the claimants did not renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication.

A passenger aircraft crashes in the mid-Pacific, and some of the survivors reach an island inhabited only by an American, Jim Taylor, with his Chinese servant, Ping. He declines to help them, telling them to build their own shelter and gather their own food, and though he has a boat and fuel, refuses to take them off. He wants to remain undisturbed because he is wanted for murder.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Sinners in Paradise (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Credits

Directed by: James Whale
Cast includes: John Boles, Bruce Cabot, Madge Evans, Don "Red" Barry, Milburn Stone, Gene Lockhart, Marion Martin, Nana Bryant
Country: United States

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Airs on

Silver Screen - CH 2, Classic Cinema

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' - reason: Copyright not renewed (cites Pierce 2007 / Fishman / trade sources). Copyright not renewed.
License on source: creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0
Music: Film soundtrack falls with the film; separately published songs (if any) not individually cleared.
Underlying rights: Copyright not renewed.
Source: Internet Archive

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