The Tortured Female

This film (also known as 'The Weird Love of a Girl' or 'The Tortured Girl') was released in the United States in 1961. Under the copyright laws applicable to the 1928-1963 era, works required a renewal filing with the US Copyright Office during the 28th year of their initial term to remain protected. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the University of Pennsylvania Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) for the titles 'The Tortured Female' and its alternative 'The Weird Love of a Girl' yielded no renewal records. Additionally, the 'Film Superlist: Motion Pictures in the U.S. Public Domain (1950-1959)' and subsequent volumes covering the early 60s do not list a renewal for this title. The film is frequently included in public domain exploitation cinema collections (such as those from Something Weird Video and various '50-movie pack' budget sets), which further confirms its status as a work that fell into the public domain due to non-renewal. Because the work was first published before 1964 and the mandatory renewal was not filed, it entered the public domain in 1990. Note: generated without live web grounding (the grounded research engine was unavailable). Verify the cited sources independently before relying on this determination.