Vengeance Valley

Vengeance Valley
Vengeance Valley
	Theatrical poster
Directed by	Richard Thorpe
Screenplay by	Irving Ravetch
Based on	Vengeance Valley; 1950 novel; by Luke Short
Produced by	Nicholas Nayfack
Starring	Burt Lancaster; Robert Walker; John Ireland; Joanne Dru;
Cinematography	George J. Folsey
Edited by	Conrad A. Nervig
Music by	Rudolph G. Kopp
Production; company	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed by	Loew's Inc.
Release date	February 16, 1951;
Running time	83 minutes
Language	English
Budget	$1,008,000
Box office	$3,146,000

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]

^ ^a ^b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
^ 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.