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The Screaming Skull (1958)

Name: The Screaming Skull
Genre: Horror
Released: 1958
Duration: 1 h 7 min
Cast: Alex Nicol, Peggy Webber, Russ Conway, John Hudson

195867 minHorrorStrong rights evidence

The Screaming Skull (1958) is a 67-minute horror film that airs free on Starlite TV's Graveyard Shift (CH 4) channel. Our rights research indicates it is in the U.S. public domain (evidence below). Directed by Alex Nicol.

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About The Screaming Skull (1958)

The Screaming Skull is a 1958 independently made American black-and-white horror film, produced by John Kneubuhl and directed by Alex Nicol, starring John Hudson, Peggy Webber, Russ Conway, Tony Johnson, and Nicol. The Screaming Skull marked Nicol's directorial debut; he decided to try it because he felt that he was not acting in the roles which he wanted.

Over a scene of an opening coffin, a narrator explains that the film's climax is so terrifying that it may kill the viewer, while reassuring the audience that should they die of fright they will receive a free burial service. Inside the coffin is a card that reads "Reserved for You." Newlyweds Jenni and Eric arrive at Eric's palatial country home in a gull-wing Mercedes-Benz 300 SL. It is revealed that Jenni is Eric's second wife: his first wife Marion died when she accidentally slipped and hit her head on the edge of a decorative pond on the estate, drowning in the pond.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article The Screaming Skull (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Credits

Directed by: Alex Nicol
Cast includes: Alex Nicol, Peggy Webber, Russ Conway, John Hudson
Country: United States
Based on: The Screaming Skull

Credits from Wikidata · Wikipedia article

Airs on

Graveyard Shift - CH 4, Horror 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' - reason: Never registered for copyright. (cites Pierce 2007 / Fishman / trade sources). Never registered.
License on source: creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain
Music: Film soundtrack falls with the film; separately published songs (if any) not individually cleared.
Underlying rights: Never registered.
Source: Internet Archive

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