Vengeance Valley

Vengeance Valley
Theatrical poster
Directed byRichard Thorpe
Screenplay byIrving Ravetch
Based onVengeance Valley
1950 novel
by Luke Short
Produced byNicholas Nayfack
Starring
CinematographyGeorge J. Folsey
Edited byConrad A. Nervig
Music byRudolph G. Kopp
Production
company
Distributed byLoew's Inc.
Release date
  • February 16, 1951 (1951-02-16)
Running time
83 minutes
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1,008,000[1]
Box office$3,146,000[1]

Vengeance Valley is a 1951 American Technicolor Western film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Burt Lancaster, with a supporting cast featuring Robert Walker, Joanne Dru, Sally Forrest, John Ireland and Ray Collins. It is based on the novel by Luke Short. In 1979, the film entered the public domain in the United States because Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer did not renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication.[2]

  1. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  2. ^ Pierce, David (June 2007). "Forgotten Faces: Why Some of Our Cinema Heritage Is Part of the Public Domain". Film History: An International Journal. 19 (2): 125–43. doi:10.2979/FIL.2007.19.2.125. ISSN 0892-2160. JSTOR 25165419. OCLC 15122313. S2CID 191633078.