The Gruesome Twosome

The film 'The Gruesome Twosome' was released in 1967, directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis. Under the US Copyright Act of 1976 and the Copyright Renewal Act of 1992, works published between 1964 and 1977 are granted automatic renewal. Therefore, a search for a manual renewal record in the Stanford or CCE databases is unnecessary as protection is secured by law for a total term of 95 years from publication, provided the work was published with a valid copyright notice. While primary evidence of the original notice was not directly inspected, the film is currently under active commercial exploitation by reputable distributors. It is a well-known title in the 'splatter' genre and is currently licensed and distributed on Blu-ray and streaming by Arrow Video (via the 'The Herschell Gordon Lewis Feast' collection) and is listed in the AFI Catalog. The rights are consistently attributed to the estate of H.G. Lewis or his successors (such as Friedland/Lewis and later Arrow/Modern Films). The presence of ongoing high-profile commercial licensing and the automatic renewal status for 1967 films strongly support its protected status. Note: generated without live web grounding (the grounded research engine was unavailable). Verify the cited sources independently before relying on this determination.