Ride the Pink Horse

Ride the Pink Horse is a 1947 American film noir directed by and starring Robert Montgomery. Under the 1909 Copyright Act, works published between 1928 and 1963 required a manual renewal during the 28th year of their first copyright term to remain protected. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) confirms that the film's copyright was successfully renewed by Universal Pictures (specifically Universal Pictures Co., Inc.). The original registration was filed on October 2, 1947 (LP1305). The renewal was filed on November 3, 1974, under registration number R588506 by Universal Pictures. Because the copyright was properly maintained, the film was granted the full statutory protection period, which was further extended by the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 to 95 years from the publication date. As a result, the film's US copyright will not expire until January 1, 2043.