The Unholy Three

Under the current US copyright law (the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act), all works published or registered in the United States before January 1, 1929, have entered the public domain. 'The Unholy Three', directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney, was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on August 16, 1925. Because the film was published in 1925, its maximum 95-year term of copyright protection expired on January 1, 2021. As of that date, the work became free of copyright restrictions in the United States. This applies to the original silent version; notably, there is a 1930 sound remake also starring Chaney, which remains protected until 2026, but the 1925 version is definitively public domain. Note: generated without live web grounding (the grounded research engine was unavailable). Verify the cited sources independently before relying on this determination.