Republic Pictures Corporation Library with Copyrights and Renewals (original) (raw)

Presented is an inventory of the Republic Pictures library, as published in a company document dated April 6, 1994. Non-Republic feature films from the company’s predecessor, National Telefilm Associates, are excluded but were part of the original document, which encompassed almost 1,500 permanent features; another 300 were under lease.

The first list herein is specific to American theatrical features produced and/or released by the company between 1935–1959. Foreign features and serials are listed separately.

With the creation of Republic in 1935, absorbing Monogram Pictures Corp., Mascot Pictures Corp., Liberty Pictures Corp., Majestic Pictures Corp., and Select Productions, Inc., some sources erroneously list titles being distributed by Republic, assuming all the companies became one and the same.

Monogram’s 33 national distribution exchanges remained relatively the same except for the new name of Republic. But due to existing deals with independent state rights exchanges, Mascot, Liberty, and Majestic were obligated to continue their identities for a short time to fulfill commitments to their franchise holders.

The last picture made under the Monogram banner, “Cheers of the Crowd,” began production on May 21, 1935. However, Mascot, brought into the Republic setup in early June 1935, had a five-picture commitment with its exchanges, after which it would permanently drop its name and distribute under the Republic banner.

Mascot would begin production of its last serial, “The Fighting Marines,” in late September 1935, and its last feature, at the Talisman Studio, “Doughnuts and Society,” in early February 1936. These were made even though the company had officially started its production schedule under the Republic name at the Mascot Studio in early July 1935.

Mascot’s plant was the former Mack Sennett Studio, acquired in a bankruptcy sale of the comedian’s estate. Formally taking possession in January 1935, under a five-year lease, Mascot had purchased all of its operating equipment and furnishings, the property described as completely dilapidated.

With four stages, the 1928-built studio would become the official home of Republic in October 1935, when the various production units were amalgamated under one roof. Republic would soon build two additional stages, and purchase the studio outright in 1939.

Monogram, working mostly out of the RKO Pathé lot at the time, did not have its own studio, nor did Liberty and Majestic.

Titles copyrighted by Mascot during this transitioning period, albeit few, are excluded like those of Monogram. Note that Gene Autry’s first film for Republic, “Tumbling Tumbleweeds,” completed in mid-July 1935, was planned as a Mascot title months earlier but Republic handled the copyright and distribution.

Liberty’s last-produced picture, “Born to Gamble,” completed in early June 1935, is excluded since it was copyrighted by the company, which handled distribution—like Mascot—through most of its own franchised exchanges.

The film carried the Liberty name on its print and advertising material, but was released by Republic in their newly opened New York exchange as were some Mascot titles. A few other Republic exchanges handled the film also.

“The Crime of Doctor Crespi” is included because Republic also copyrighted the film at the same time as Liberty—mistakenly according to Republic—and handled its release. The film was not made by Liberty in the first place, since it was produced independently in September 1934 at the Biograph Studio, New York.

After “Born to Gamble,” Liberty’s president, M.H. Hoffman, would briefly become a unit producer for Republic and Columbia. In 1939 Liberty’s small library of 12 features—including the aforementioned film—was acquired by Herbert J. Yates’ Consolidated Film Industries (CFI) and then by Republic, its corporate cousin.

Mascot’s library of 19 features and 20 sound serials was sold in 1945 to George Hirliman of International Theatrical and Television Corp., through negotiations with Nat Levine and CFI. Levine, who founded Mascot in 1927, had resigned the presidency of Republic in early 1937.

Mascot, Liberty and Majestic were all financed by CFI, which ended up owning a stake in their film libraries except Majestic, but no titles would be in the official Republic library itself. Monogram, too, was financed by Consolidated.

Although part of the rumor mill in 1935, Invincible Pictures Corp. and Chesterfield Pictures Corp. were not involved in Republic’s creation in any way—both companies were financed by Pathé. This myth still persists today.

In early 1934 Majestic, relying on independent pickups, formed its own production unit under the helm of Larry Darmour, Majestic Producing Corp. With the absorption into Republic, the company would continue to distribute, along with Republic, the few Darmour titles still in circulation. Majestic’s last film, “Reckless Roads,” was completed in May 1935.

With the success of the fledgling Monogram, Herbert J. Yates had his eyes on the company early on. This included a proposed plan in late 1933 to acquire the company and its main distribution system, First Division, run by Harry H. Thomas. Yates had planned to enter into a combination with Harold B. Franklin, the former head of Fox West Coast Theatres and RKO Theatres.

One other company, rarely mentioned, absorbed into Republic was Select Productions, Inc., headed by William Saal and Burt Kelly. In 1934 the company, a subsidiary of CFI, made five films in the East, at the Biograph Studio, New York.

Select’s president, William Saal, would later become the executive assistant to Herbert J. Yates, with him to the very end of Republic Pictures in 1959.

The newly reconstructed Biograph Studio, which opened for production in the Bronx on January 2, 1934, was owned by CFI, the precursor to Herbert J. Yates’ plan to enter motion picture production in a big way. The first film to be made at the modernized plant was “Frankie and Johnnie.”

While still temporarily active in the East, Select Productions then started Hollywood production in October 1934 with “Federal Agent” and then “Salvage” (released as “Burning Gold”), and in early 1935, “Go-Get-’Em, Haines” and “Racing Luck,” all starring Bill Boyd.

The films were belatedly released by Republic to cash in on Bill Boyd’s popularity as Hopalong Cassidy. All were presented under the Winchester Pictures banner, helmed by George Hirliman who also helped Herbert J. Yates oversee talent for the Biograph Studio.

Although “Forbidden Heaven” was sometimes reported as the first Republic production, “Westward Ho” was the first to be completed, on June 25, 1935, when additional scenes were filmed at the Talisman Studio after principal photography ended early in the month. The film was trade-screened on June 1.

“Forbidden Heaven” started on June 12, at the RKO Pathé Studio, and wrapped up on June 27. It was the first, however, to be planned solely as a Republic production since “Westward Ho” and “Lawless Range”—filmed back-to-back beginning on May 19 at Lone Pine, California—were in the production pipeline with Monogram.

“Westward Ho” was the first to be released generally, in late August, and “Forbidden Heaven” in late September. “Lawless Range” was tentatively planned for a July 30 release but hit the exchanges in late October. Two other Republic titles predated the release of “Forbidden Heaven”: “Two Sinners” and “Cappy Ricks Returns,” both released in September 1935.

As listed in Republic’s 1994 document, ‘T’ denotes a film available on broadcast tape, ‘F’ on 16mm film. Titles without a format designation (‘—’) were either not part of the Republic library at this time or simply not available for distribution.

The document’s origins predate 1994 since some Republic titles have expiration dates going back to 1984, when National Telefilm Associates (NTA) was renamed Republic, the dates reflecting when distribution rights expired.

Some expiration dates, though not Republic studio titles, go back to 1966, reflecting the document’s early origins.

Besides seven other cases outlined below, those that expired in 1984 were 23 titles in the Red Ryder series, which today is marketed on home video by VCI Entertainment under license from Red Ryder Enterprises, Inc. NTA’s rights expired by the end of the 1960s, and Leo A. Gutman, Inc., New York, was distributing the series to TV by at least 1980. Republic’s document listed the expiration as January 24, 1984, so the then-NTA must have reacquired the rights after Gutman.

The others with expiration dates are seven titles made independently for Republic: “The French Key,” “The Glass Alibi,” “The Pretender,” “Strange Impersonation,” “Winter Wonderland,” “Woman Who Came Back” and “Yankee Fakir,” all now owned by Films Around the World, Inc. (FAT-W).

The Republic releases “The Great Flamarion,” “Identity Unknown,” “That’s My Baby!” and “Trocadero” are now owned by FAT-W also. No expiration dates, however, were included for these indie titles because their copyrights were not renewed.

“Trocadero,” for reasons unknown, was not listed in Republic’s document but was in the NTA library in 1984, although apparently not in circulation. Even when the film came into the hands of Classics Associates, Inc., later called Films Around the World, it was not available on 16mm.

The eleven titles now with FAT-W were once owned by a former Motion Pictures for Television subsidiary, Western Television Corp., later a division of Television Industries, Inc. They were leased to NTA by the films’ new owner, Link Industries, Inc., two years before NTA purchased the Republic library in 1967.

All eleven were on TV in the early 1950s from MPTV, the largest distributor at the time. And all were produced off the Republic lot by either Walter Colmes or W. Lee Wilder under their associated company names.

Three other independent films came back to the Republic library through TV distributors: “Captain Tugboat Annie” and “Adventures of Captain Fabian” were acquired in 1952 and 1958, respectively, by M&A Alexander Productions, Inc., whose library formed a substantial part of NTA in the mid-1960s.

The third, “Macbeth,” was acquired by the Bank of America in a foreclosure suit, and released to TV by the Film Division of General Teleradio in 1955. NTA acquired the domestic TV rights in 1958, along with 29 other titles in the foreclosure—ultimately owning the films outright.

Although tracking down TV distributors may seem unimportant, such companies often owned all negative rights, especially minor titles like these, the films no longer valued for theatrical exhibition. This at a time when home video—discounting narrow-gauge—did not exist. The distributor of one orphaned independent Republic title from the 1940s, however, has eluded me: “The Big Show-Off” was playing on TV in 1952, only to disappear by the early 1960s.

Not included in Republic’s document are 56 Gene Autry titles, the majority with copyright renewals by Republic and NTA, the remainder in the public domain. These are now owned by the Autry estate. When exactly NTA lost the rights is unknown, but the films were being distributed to TV in 1982 by Autry’s own Golden West Television, Inc.

The Roy Rogers titles in the Republic library are still owned by its successor, Paramount, but his estate also has rights. Of the cowboy’s 81 starring roles for the studio, most are in the public domain. However, in an odd case of dual ownership, even those under copyright today have been released on home video without the involvement of Paramount, advertised as “authorized by the Roy Rogers Estate.”

Films with no elements in 1994 are prefaced by an ‘X’, all but one followed by a two-letter designation. Although the others are explained below, X-RP denotes an in-house Republic production still known to be in the library in absentia, so to speak, except those with expired underlying rights, which are noted. Film elements may be incomplete or non-existent for most of them.

Comprehensive rights are far beyond the scope of what is presented here, the list more to provide a snapshot of what was available in 1994 and decades earlier.

Republic’s library remained relatively intact into the early 1980s, unlike its counterpart Monogram/Allied Artists which sold outright many of its features years before.

With its entry into the early field of television distribution in 1951, through its Hollywood Television Service, Inc. subsidiary, Republic retitled a number of films for the medium. These variants are reflected in the company document and included herein with their original titles.

A few of the new titles reflect theatrical reissues or those retitled shortly after release, but many were specifically for television, which are noted. Other non-Republic variants include three Gene Autry features that MCA-TV retitled when the company had his Republic films in the 1950s.

Reissues are noted only when the original titles have been changed for domestic release, and have been verified as true theatrical reissues, disregarding other forms of title variants. It appears that Republic generally retitled only those reissues with bigger budgets, leaving their often re-released B pictures—especially westerns—with their original titles. UK titles are also included.

By May 1957 Hollywood Television Service advertised 447 pre-1948 features available to TV, excluding the 67 titles with Roy Rogers and 56 with Gene Autry that MCA-TV—a Republic shareholder—had acquired for worldwide distribution in 1955.

Pre-1948 meant productions started before August 1, 1948, and vice versa, as per an agreement with Hollywood’s talent guilds. Republic ignored the agreement for post-1948 titles, in 1958, since corporately it had ceased motion picture production.

In early 1958, under much controversy, Republic released the first batch of its post-’48 library to TV: 203 features and 15 serials, most of it known as the Constellation Group. In April 1959, Douglas T. Yates, company vice-president, stated 461 pre-’48 titles were in distribution besides the 203 post-’48 pictures.

Douglas T. Yates’ total excluded MCA-TV’s 123 titles with Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, and the 23 Red Ryders, which were all pre-’48. The Republic backlog released to TV totaled 94% with their inclusion.

Republic’s president, Herbert J. Yates, stated in early 1959 that only “about 50” post-’48 films remained in the company’s vaults. In late 1960 those would be released to TV in HTS’s Saturn Group package comprised of 30 titles.

The company’s last two post-’48 serials were released by HTS in 1963, leaving 20 of 66 cliffhangers unreleased by the company—about half of those with expired rights. The number of Republic serials in TV circulation would change very little over the years.

In the latter part of 1960, Hollywood Television Service’s library—with over 1200 titles including TV episodes, serial episodes and shorts—had 246 post-’48 and 615 pre-’48 feature films. This included the 23 Red Ryder titles and the 123 with Roy Rogers and Gene Autry.

The Red Ryder series was part of the very first package of films released by HTS, in 1951, with KTTV, Los Angeles, the first station in the country to sign a deal, acquiring 127 features and 48 half-hour serial episodes. The rights to the Red Ryders eventually expired but were acquired again by HTS from Stephen Slesinger, Inc. in early 1960.

The 123 Roy Rogers and Gene Autry titles also returned to HTS the same year in a new agreement with MCA-TV, which had acquired worldwide TV rights to the films in March 1955. A long legal battle between Republic and the cowboy stars kept the films from being broadcast until the MCA-TV deal.

With 246 post-’48ers and 615 pre-’48ers, HTS had a total of 861 feature films by the end of 1960.

There are 804 of 951 theatrical feature films, both American and foreign, listed herein with TV elements—tape and/or film, including the 23 Red Ryders, which should not have been shown as such since their rights expired in 1984. This totals 860 features if the 56 Autrys with no elements are included. (The use of the word elements is specific to TV, which means 16mm or broadcast tape—not 35mm.)

The closely matching total is deceiving, however, because 13 of the titles with elements in 1994 were with three other TV distributors in 1960: Western Television, M&A Alexander Productions, and NTA (its pre-Republic years).

This means 14 more features were being distributed in 1960 compared to 1994 if one includes the Red Ryder and Gene Autry titles for comparison.

Not listed with elements in 1994 but first released by HTS between 1958–1960 were nine independent American titles: “Yellowneck,” “Hidden Guns,” “Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer,” “Journey to Freedom,” “Hell Canyon Outlaws,” “Raiders of Old California,” “Hell Ship Mutiny,” “Outcasts of the City,” and “Street of Darkness.”

Also not listed with elements in 1994 but first released by HTS in 1958 were four foreign titles: “Thunder Over Tangier,” “The Fighting Wildcats,” “Scotland Yard Dragnet,” and “International Counterfeiters.”

This accounts for 13 extra features being distributed in 1960. The 14th feature, “The Avengers,” was not listed in 1994, but was available at least into the 1970s.

HTS wasted no time with Republic’s latter post-’48 backlog, releasing many of them to TV two years after their theatrical release dates.

Another title without elements in 1994 but handled by HTS was “Bill and Coo,” first broadcast in 1955 as a “Specialty Attraction,” but the rights had lapsed by 1960. Republic’s UK distributor at the time, Eros Films, did manage a reissue in 1959.

Not listed above is “Behind City Lights,” without elements in 1994 but released by HTS in 1952, only to be pulled from circulation a couple of years later.

Two others without elements in 1994 were “Affairs of Jimmy Valentine” and “The Return of Jimmy Valentine,” both briefly released under their original titles by HTS in the early 1950s, and subsequently retitled “Unforgotten Crime” and “Prison Shadows,” respectively. They were not available from HTS in 1960, apparently pulled from circulation around the same time as “Behind City Lights.”

Hollywood Television Service announced in 1960 that it was planning to release its 850-film library to foreign television stations, the number a generalization. The company had exactly 861 titles for domestic release, including 433 available with Spanish subtitles and a lesser number with French, German, Italian, and Portuguese subtitles.

Note that what HTS had were only those features in circulation—the total would be different if John Wayne’s lost six-reeler, “The Oregon Trail,” had previously been discovered in a Kansas salt mine.

Also available from HTS at this time were 501 serial chapters—most if not all edited to 13 minutes—in three packages: Science Fiction Cliff Hangers, Jungle Adventure Cliff Hangers, and Republic’s Famous Cliff Hangers. In addition there were four TV series: “Stories of the Century,” “Frontier Doctor,” “Stryker of Scotland Yard,” and “Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe.”

A few in-house Republic productions have never been released to TV or any other media since their theatrical runs: “The Harvester” and “Michael O’Halloran,” both based on novels by Gene Stratton-Porter. Also “Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case,” now owned by Kit Parker who, after securing the underlying rights, has found no useable film elements. He also owns “Mr. District Attorney,” which has never been released to TV but is available on home video.

Although the four films above were made in-house and released to TV at one time, as mentioned none were in Republic’s 1994 document, probably because of poor elements or underlying rights issues.

Of the independent titles from Republic, only two have disappeared from circulation since their theatrical runs: “A Gentle Gangster” has not seen the light of day since, although the British Film Institute has elements; and “Deerslayer,” not to be confused with the 1957 version which was purchased by NTA from 20th Century-Fox in 1960.

The Republic library and other films acquired by NTA are housed at the UCLA Film & Television Archive, where their online catalog can be searched to see what elements exist in their holdings.

Although excluded from Republic’s original document, the initial copyright claimant as registered with the US Copyright Office is listed for each film along with its renewal number. Copyrights renewed other than by Republic’s corporate entities—Republic Corp., National Telefilm Associates, Inc., Repix, Inc.—are italicized.

Of the few films never registered, most have Republic copyright statements on the prints. The law at this time allowed a film to be registered within 28 years of its release, and Republic belatedly registered some of its last films within the deadline, also registering for renewal in the same 28-year window.

In almost all cases, however, films were registered upon their initial release.

In rare cases Republic was the registered copyright claimant but a different one appeared on the print. And some independent films, where Republic’s rights lapsed, had new credits for TV distribution, inserting entirely different copyright claimants. These are not noted.

No guarantee is implied for documenting every copyright renewal, though confidence prevails that all have been accounted. This is not a legal document—some renewals could be missing.

Even without renewal a film may have underlying rights protected by copyright. “Hell Ship Mutiny,” for example, has some of its music under copyright even though the film itself was never registered.

Theatrically released features culled from serials are included, and any renewals listed are specific only to the condensed versions. These are noted as ‘from serial’ but do not always reflect the chapter play’s original name.

No serials were listed in the Republic document, but included were the 26 retitled and condensed 100-minute features the company released to television in March 1966. These are included in a separate list following the serials.

Colorized films in Republic’s document are excluded.

The year for each film was not included either. These have been based on a film’s premiere or release date (i.e. its first showing to the general public), but note that it was not uncommon for Republic to hold back some films for six months or more before distribution.

All films are black and white unless noted. Those in Naturama, Republic’s 2.35:1 widescreen format, or any other anamorphic format are also noted. Republic’s first three-color Trucolor film was “Honeychile,” and it is assumed that all subsequent titles in the format were the same.

A brief chronology of the Republic library:

• 1935: Republic Pictures Corp. is formed.
• 1950: Hollywood Television Service, Inc., a Republic subsidiary, is formed.
• 1951: HTS begins releasing Republic’s backlog to TV. The company offers its Hollywood studio as a rental lot to television producers, the first major Hollywood plant to do so.
• 1952: National Telefilm Associates is incorporated, initially as First Federal Film Network, Inc., but not fully active until January 1954 (no affiliation with Republic at this time). Besides TV properties, NTA starts out with 68 feature films (about half are B westerns). Republic starts production of its first TV series, “Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe,” in February.
• 1953: Republic forms Studio City Television Productions, Inc. The first TV series under the subsidiary’s name is “Stories of the Century” which begins filming in November. With increased TV production by both Republic and companies leasing space, four new sound stages are completed on the studio’s North Hollywood lot, bringing the total to 19.
• 1956: Republic completes its last in-house production in early November; all subsequent features are made by independents.
• 1958: Republic finances its last film. (Technically this is not correct, since Republic Corp. financed two films in 1960 under a guarantor plan that included use of its studio.)
• 1959: Herbert J. Yates sells Republic.
• 1960: Republic Pictures Corp. becomes Republic Corp., the former name dropped.
• 1963: CBS acquires a five-year lease for the entirety of Republic’s studio.
• 1967: NTA buys Republic’s library from Republic Corp. for 3.35million;CBSbuysRepublic’sstudiofromRepublicCorp.for3.35 million; CBS buys Republic’s studio from Republic Corp. for 3.35million;CBSbuysRepublic’sstudiofromRepublicCorp.for9.5 million. HTS becomes a division of NTA. Repix, Inc., an NTA subsidiary, is formed. NTA gets domestic television and theatrical rights to the library, while Emery Pictures, Inc., New York, will distribute internationally.
• 1971: Tele-Communications, Inc., a cable operator, through its subsidiary TCI Programs, Inc., acquires a majority share of NTA for 4.5millionandtheRepubliclibraryfor4.5 million and the Republic library for 4.5millionandtheRepubliclibraryfor3 million. The shares TCI purchased were co-owned by New York financier Joseph Harris, who attempted to take over Republic in 1957. By October 1971, the NTA library encompasses 1,694 company-owned feature films and distribution rights to 472 additional features.
• 1972: NTA acquires foreign television and theatrical rights to the Republic library. The company licenses 70 films for the soon-to-fail Cartrivision system—home video is born.
• 1973: NTA acquires NBC Films, Inc., with more than 180 television programs (e.g. “Bonanza”).
• 1977: Republic Pictures Corp. is reborn, a subsidiary of Republic Industries, in no way related to Republic Corp. The new Republic Pictures, without its namesake’s film library, has rights to the famous eagle trademark and the Republic Pictures name and its variants. The Nostalgia Merchant acquires non-theatrical rights to NTA’s library; after Cartrivision fails, the eagle soars once again on home video.
• 1980: The new Republic Pictures (Republic Industries) is up for sale. Its assets include, as reported in a newspaper article, the eagle trademark, 27 feature films, many of them for the home video cassette market only, two mail order concerns which sell nutritional guides and computerized horoscopes and $6 million worth of real estate in Juneau, Alaska.
• 1982: NTA Home Entertainment is formed.
• 1984: NTA announces in December that it is being renamed Republic Pictures Corp., having acquired the trademarks of the former Republic Industries.
• 1985: Tele-Communications, Inc. sells its majority share of NTA/Republic in January, coinciding with the dissolution of NTA on January 7, 1985. Republic is reborn once again. NTA Home Entertainment becomes Republic Pictures Home Video.
• 1986: The Paragon Group, an investment partnership formed in 1985 to acquire media properties, purchases Republic for $8.7 million.
• 1994: Paragon is acquired by Spelling Entertainment Group, Inc., controlled since 1993 by Blockbuster Entertainment Corp. By year’s end the majority of Blockbuster—and hence Spelling—is owned by Viacom, Inc., which had absorbed Paramount earlier in the year.
• 1998: Republic Entertainment, Inc., a Spelling subsidiary since 1994, formerly Republic Pictures Corp., licenses its home video catalog to Artisan Entertainment, Inc. (later absorbed into Lions Gate [Lionsgate] Entertainment, Inc.), initially under a seven-year term.
• 1999: Viacom gains full control of Spelling.
• 2005: Viacom (Paramount) forms Melange Pictures, a subsidiary for the Republic library and other films in the former NTA library.
• 2012: Under license from Paramount, Olive Films begins releasing the Republic/NTA library to home video.

Accused of Murder

1956

TF

RE200-361

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor and Naturama

Adventures of Captain Fabian

1951

TF

RE018-086

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

US-France co-production

Affair in Reno

1957

TF

RE238-960

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Naturama

Affairs of Cappy Ricks

1937

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Affairs of Geraldine

1946

T

R557429

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Affairs of Jimmy Valentine

1942

—

X-RP

-----------

never registered

–

released HTS 1950s as Unforgotten Crime

African Manhunt

1955

—

X

RE136-455

©Republic Pictures Corp.

×

Alias Billy the Kid

1946

TF

R554199

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Alias the Champ

1949

TF

R645414

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

All Over Town

1937

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Along the Navajo Trail

1945

TF

R554200

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Along the Oregon Trail

1947

F

R590890

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor

Angel and the Badman

1947

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Angel Comes to Brooklyn, An

1945

F

R548949

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Angel in Exile

1948

TF

R625111

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

reissued in 1954 as Dark Violence

Angel on the Amazon

1948

F

R625121

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

reissued in 1954 as Jungle Wilderness; UK: Drums Along the Amazon

Angels with Broken Wings

1941

T

R437482

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Apache Kid, The

1941

F

R447993

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Apache Rose

1947

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor; MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Arizona Cowboy, The

1950

TF

R665666

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Arizona Gunfighter, The

1937

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Supreme; reissued in 1946 by Bell Pictures

Arizona Kid, The

1939

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Arizona Manhunt

1951

TF

RE018-078

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Arizona Terrors

1942

F

R458731

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Arkansas Judge

1941

TF

R429325

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: False Witness

Army Girl

1938

TF

R389259

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: The Last of the Cavalry

Arson Gang Busters

1938

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

as Arson Racket Squad (retitled shortly after its initial release); UK: Fire Fighters

Atlantic City

1944

T

R520385

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

reissued in 1950 as Atlantic City Honeymoon

Atomic Kid, The

1954

TF

RE136-448

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Avengers, The

1950

—

X-RP

R670677

©Republic Pictures Corp.

–

released HTS/NTA 1960s–1970s;
US-Argentina co-production

Back in the Saddle

1941

—

X-GA

R433159

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Bad Man of Deadwood

1941

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Bal Tabarin

1952

TF

RE049-458

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Bandit King of Texas

1949

TF

R645407

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Bandits of Dark Canyon

1947

F

R606059

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Bandits of the Badlands

1945

F

R548965

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Bandits of the West

1953

TF

RE088-822

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Barnyard Follies

1940

F

R427547

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Bar-Z Bad Men

1937

T

X-SP

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

released HTS/NTA 1950s–1960s; Supreme; reissued in 1946 by Bell Pictures

Beginning of the End

1957

—

X

RE264-412

©AB-PT Pictures Corp.

–

Behind City Lights

1945

—

X-RP

R548963

©Republic Pictures Corp.

–

released HTS 1950s

Behind the News

1940

TF

R427548

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Belle LeGrand

1951

TF

RE018-062

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Belle of Old Mexico

1950

TF

R665673

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor

Bells of Capistrano

1942

—

X-GA

R470416

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Bells of Coronado

1950

TF

R648425

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor; Roy Rogers

Bells of Rosarita

1945

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Bells of San Angelo

1947

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor; MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Beneath Western Skies

1944

TF

R510533

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Beware of Ladies

1936

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Beyond the Last Frontier

1943

TF

R496356

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Big Bonanza, The

1944

F

R531021

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Big Show, The

1936

—

X-GA

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Big Show-Off, The

1945

—

X

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

–

The film’s copyright was registered by Republic, but the on-screen claimant is Williams-Spence Productions

Bill and Coo

1948

—

X-HT

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

×

Trucolor; released HTS 1950s

Bill Cracks Down

1937

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: Men of Steel

Billy the Kid Returns

1938

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Black Hills Ambush

1952

F

RE049-459

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Black Hills Express, The

1943

F

R492740

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Blackmail

1947

T

R582740

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Blocked Trail, The

1943

F

R487420

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Blonde Bandit, The

1949

TF

R648429

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Blue Montana Skies

1939

—

X-GA

R386864

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Bold Caballero, The

1936

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Magnacolor; UK: The Bold Cavalier

Bold Frontiersman, The

1948

TF

R606066

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Boothill Brigade

1937

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Supreme; reissued in 1946 by Bell Pictures

Boots and Saddles

1937

—

X-GA

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Border Legion, The

1940

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers); as West of the Badlands (TV title)

Border Phantom

1936

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Supreme; reissued in 1946 by Bell Pictures

Border Saddlemates

1952

F

RE049-456

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Bordertown Gun Fighters

1943

TF

R492742

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Bordertown Trail

1944

TF

R517629

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Born to Be Wild

1938

T

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Bowery Boy

1940

T

R427549

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Brazil

1944

T

R520393

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

reissued in 1951 as Stars and Guitars

Brimstone

1949

TF

R645410

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor

Buckaroo Sheriff of Texas

1951

TF

RE018-057

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Bulldog Edition

1936

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: Lady Reporter

Bullfighter and the Lady

1951

TF

RE018-064

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

US-Mexico co-production

Burning Gold

1935

—

X-CW

R318943

©Republic Pictures Corp.

×

Calendar Girl

1947

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

reissued in 1951 as Stardust and Sweet Music

California Firebrand

1948

TF

R606064

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor

California Gold Rush

1946

F

X-RR

R554189

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Red Ryder series

California Joe

1943

TF

R503513

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

California Passage

1950

TF

R682672

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Call of the Canyon

1942

—

X-GA

R470414

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Call of the Rockies

1944

TF

R517619

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Call of the South Seas

1944

TF

R517622

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Call of the Yukon

1938

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Call the Mesquiteers

1938

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: Outlaws of the West

Calling All Marines

1939

F

R397149

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Calling Wild Bill Elliott

1943

TF

R492731

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Campus Honeymoon

1948

TF

R606060

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Cancion de Mexico

1945

—

X-RP

R548967

©Republic Pictures Corp.

–

US-Mexico co-production; Spanish version of Song of Mexico

Canyon City

1943

F

R503511

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Cappy Ricks Returns

1935

TF

R318933

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Captain Tugboat Annie

1945

T

R554384

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Captive of Billy the Kid

1952

TF

RE018-091

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Carolina Cannonball

1955

F

RE136-453

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Carolina Moon

1940

—

X-GA

R423854

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Carson City Cyclone

1943

F

R487424

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Carson City Kid, The

1940

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Carson City Raiders

1948

TF

R609256

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Casanova in Burlesque

1944

TF

R503514

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Catman of Paris, The

1946

F

R554198

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Cavalry

1936

F

X-SP

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

released HTS/NTA 1950s–1960s; Supreme; reissued in 1946 by Bell Pictures

Champ for a Day

1953

TF

RE088-826

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Chatterbox

1943

F

R492728

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Cheaters, The

1945

T

R531035

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

reissued in 1949 as The Castaway

Cherokee Flash, The

1945

TF

R548950

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Cheyenne Wildcat

1944

F

X-RR

R520390

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Red Ryder series

Chicago Kid, The

1945

F

R531037

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Circus Girl

1937

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Citadel of Crime

1941

TF

R441089

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

initially released as Ten Nights in a Barroom; UK: Outside the Law

City of Shadows

1955

TF

RE170-786

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

City That Never Sleeps

1953

TF

RE088-809

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Code of the Outlaw

1942

TF

R458728

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Code of the Prairie

1944

TF

R520388

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Code of the Silver Sage

1950

F

R665680

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Colorado

1940

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Colorado Kid, The

1937

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Supreme; reissued in 1946 by Bell Pictures

Colorado Pioneers

1945

F

X-RR

R548974

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Red Ryder series

Colorado Sundown

1952

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Colorado Sunset

1939

—

X-GA

R394254

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Come Next Spring

1956

TF

RE170-802

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor

Come On, Cowboys!

1937

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Come On, Leathernecks

1938

F

R390852

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Come On, Rangers

1938

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Comin’ ’Round the Mountain

1936

—

X-GA

R319837

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Conquest of Cheyenne

1946

F

X-RR

R554206

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Red Ryder series

Corpus Christi Bandits

1945

F

R531030

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Country Fair

1941

F

R437480

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Country Gentlemen

1936

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Covered Trailer, The

1939

F

R400729

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Covered Wagon Days

1940

TF

R423839

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Covered Wagon Raid

1950

F

R670680

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Cowboy and the Senorita

1944

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Cowboy Serenade

1942

—

X-GA

R458730

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry); UK: Serenade of the West

Cowboys from Texas

1939

F

R399774

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Crazylegs

1953

—

X

RE088-834

©Hall Bartlett Product-
ions, Inc.

–

Crime of Doctor Crespi, The

1935

—

X-CW

R318940

©Republic Pictures Corp.

×

Crime of the Century

1946

F

R554207

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Crooked Circle, The

1957

TF

RE238-972

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Naturama

Crooked Road, The

1940

F

R423850

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Cuban Fireball

1951

TF

RE018-063

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Cyclone Kid, The

1942

TF

R465256

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Dakota

1945

TF

R548972

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Dakota Incident

1956

TF

RE200-343

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor

Dakota Kid, The

1951

F

RE018-074

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Dancing Feet

1936

F

R319830

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Dangerous Holiday

1937

T

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer

1956

—

X-HT

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

×

Trucolor; released HTS 1950s–
1960s; US-Mexico co-production

Daredevils of the Clouds

1948

TF

R609263

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Dark Command

1940

TF

R423837

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Daughter of the Jungle

1949

TF

R645380

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Days of Buffalo Bill

1946

F

R554202

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Days of Jesse James

1939

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Days of Old Cheyenne

1943

TF

R492732

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Dead Man’s Gulch

1943

TF

R487417

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Death Valley Gunfighter

1949

F

R645385

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Death Valley Manhunt

1943

F

R496354

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Death Valley Outlaws

1941

TF

R447997

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Deerslayer

1943

—

X

R503512

©Republic Pictures Corp.

–

Denver Kid, The

1948

F

R625118

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Desert Bandit

1941

TF

R437485

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Desert of Lost Men

1951

TF

RE018-090

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Desert Patrol

1938

TF

R386883

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Supreme; reissued in 1946 by Bell Pictures

Desperadoes of Dodge City

1948

TF

R625113

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Desperadoes’ Outpost

1952

TF

RE049-460

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Desperate Adventure, A

1938

T

R390856

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: It Happened in Paris

Destination Big House

1950

TF

R670676

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Devil Pays Off, The

1941

F

R452620

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Dick Tracy

1938

—

X-RP

-----------

never registered

–

from serial (expired underlying
rights); no US release—see notes

Doctors Don’t Tell

1941

F

R443097

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Don’t Fence Me In

1945

F

R554756

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Doomed at Sundown

1937

F

X-SP

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

released HTS/NTA 1950s–1960s; Supreme; reissued in 1946 by Bell Pictures

Double Jeopardy

1955

F

RE170-782

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: Crooked Ring

Down Dakota Way

1949

TF

R645412

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor; Roy Rogers

Down in “Arkansaw”

1938

TF

R393737

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Down Laredo Way

1953

TF

RE088-827

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Down Mexico Way

1941

—

X-GA

R447998

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Down to the Sea

1936

T

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Driftwood

1947

TF

R590889

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Drums of Fu Manchu

1943

—

X-RP

R503507

©Republic Pictures Corp.

–

from serial (expired underlying rights)

Duel at Apache Wells

1957

F

RE238-959

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Naturama

Duke Comes Back, The

1937

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: The Call of the Ring

Duke of Chicago

1949

F

R645386

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Durango Valley Raiders

1938

F

R390854

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Supreme; reissued in 1946 by Bell Pictures

Earl Carroll Sketchbook

1946

F

R557428

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

reissued in 1951 as Stand Up and Sing; UK: Hats Off to Rhythm

Earl Carroll Vanities

1945

F

R531024

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Earl of Puddlestone

1940

F

R427540

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: Jolly Old Higgins

Eighteen and Anxious

1957

—

X

RE264-415

©AB-PT Pictures Corp.

–

El Paso Kid, The

1946

F

R554212

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

El Paso Stampede

1953

TF

RE088-830

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

End of the Road

1944

F

R520383

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Escape by Night

1937

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Eternal Sea, The

1955

TF

RE170-784

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Exiled to Shanghai

1937

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Exposed

1947

TF

R590891

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Eyes of Texas

1948

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor; MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Fabulous Senorita, The

1952

TF

RE049-453

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Fabulous Suzanne, The

1946

—

X

R568603

©Republic Pictures Corp.

–

released NTA 1950s–1960s; reissued in 1953 by Beverly Pictures as The Daring Lady

Fabulous Texan, The

1947

TF

R590893

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

reissued in 1953 as The Texas Uprising

Faces in the Fog

1944

F

R520399

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Fair Wind to Java

1953

TF

RE088-808

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor

False Faces

1943

F

R492737

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: The Attorney’s Dilemma

Far Frontier, The

1948

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor; MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Fatal Witness, The

1945

F

R548959

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Federal Agent

1936

—

X-CW

R319944

©Republic Pictures Corp.

×

Federal Agent at Large

1950

F

R665679

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Federal Man-Hunt

1938

F

R389266

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: Flight from Justice

Feud Maker, The

1938

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Supreme; reissued in 1946 by Bell Pictures

Fighting Chance, The

1955

T

RE170-792

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Fighting Coast Guard

1951

TF

RE018-070

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Fighting Devil Dogs, The

1943

—

X-RP

R487419

©Republic Pictures Corp.

–

from serial

Fighting Kentuckian, The

1949

TF

R645418

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Fighting Seabees, The

1944

TF

R510528

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Fighting Thoroughbreds

1939

F

R389263

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Firebrands of Arizona

1944

TF

R520394

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Flame, The

1947

TF

R590895

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Flame of Barbary Coast

1945

TF

R531029

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Flame of the Islands

1956

TF

RE170-796

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor

Flame of Youth

1949

T

R645413

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Flaming Fury

1949

F

R645405

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Flight at Midnight

1939

T

R394251

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Flight Nurse

1953

TF

RE088-835

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Flying Tigers

1942

TF

R479739

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Follow Your Heart

1936

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Forbidden Heaven

1935

TF

R318938

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Forced Landing

1935

F

R319828

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Forged Passport

1939

F

R400427

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Forgotten Girls

1940

F

R423836

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Fort Dodge Stampede

1951

TF

RE018-080

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Frankie and Johnnie

1936

—

X-CW

R319834

©Republic Pictures Corp.

×

French Key, The

1946

F

X-FW

R563069

©Republic Pictures Corp.

×

released NTA 1965–1984

Friendly Neighbors

1940

F

R427538

©Republic Pictures Corp.

–

Frisco Tornado

1950

TF

R675451

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Frisco Waterfront

1935

F

R319826

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: When We Look Back

Frontier Investigator

1949

F

R645392

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Frontier Pony Express

1939

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Frontier Vengeance

1940

F

R427537

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Fugitive from Sonora

1943

TF

R492741

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Fugitive Lady

1951

—

X

RE013-037

©Venus Productions, Inc.

–

US-UK-Italy co-production (filmed in both English and Italian versions)

G.I. War Brides

1946

TF

R557423

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: War Brides

Gallant Legion, The

1948

F

R609259

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Gambling Terror, The

1937

F

X-SP

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

released HTS/NTA 1950s–1960s; Supreme; reissued in 1946 by Bell Pictures

Gangs of Chicago

1940

F

R423845

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Gangs of New York

1938

T

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Gangs of Sonora

1941

F

R441084

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Gangs of the Waterfront

1945

F

R548954

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Gaucho Serenade

1940

—

X-GA

R423841

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry), as Keep Rollin’

Gauchos of Eldorado

1941

TF

R447999

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Gay Blades

1946

TF

R554219

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

as Tournament Tempo (TV title)

Gay Ranchero, The

1948

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor; MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Gay Vagabond, The

1941

F

R437484

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Gentle Gangster, A

1943

—

X

R492733

©Republic Pictures Corp.

–

Gentleman from Louisiana,
The

1936

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Geraldine

1953

TF

RE088-832

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Ghost Goes Wild, The

1947

T

R582726

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Ghost of Zorro

1959

TF

RE338-979

©Republic Pictures Corp.

–

from serial

Ghost-Town Gold

1936

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Ghost Valley Raiders

1940

TF

R423835

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Girl from Alaska, The

1942

F

R462319

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Girl from God’s Country

1940

F

R423857

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Girl from Havana

1940

F

R427534

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Girl from Mandalay, The

1936

F

R319940

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Girl in the Woods

1958

—

X

RE264-414

©AB-PT Pictures Corp.

–

Girl Who Dared, The

1944

F

R517623

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Girls of the Big House

1945

F

R548966

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Git Along Little Dogies

1937

—

X-GA

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry); UK: Serenade of the West

Glass Alibi, The

1946

F

X-FW

R563067

©Republic Pictures Corp.

×

released NTA 1965–1984

Go-Get-’Em, Haines

1936

—

X-CW

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

×

Gobs and Gals

1952

F

RE049-457

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: Cruising Casanovas

Gold Mine in the Sky

1938

—

X-GA

R389258

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Golden Stallion, The

1949

TF

R645419

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor; Roy Rogers

Goodnight Sweetheart

1944

F

R517618

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Grand Canyon Trail

1948

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor; MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Grand Ole Opry

1940

F

R423849

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Grandpa Goes to Town

1940

F

R423842

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Great Flamarion, The

1945

T

X-FW

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

×

released NTA 1965–1984

Great Stagecoach Robbery

1945

F

X-RR

R531022

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Red Ryder series

Great Train Robbery, The

1941

F

R433157

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Grissly’s Millions

1945

TF

R531020

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Gun Lords of Stirrup Basin

1937

F

X-SP

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

released HTS/NTA 1950s–1960s; Supreme; reissued in 1946 by Bell Pictures

Gun Ranger, The

1936

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Supreme; reissued in 1946 by Bell Pictures

Gunfire at Indian Gap

1957

F

RE238-981

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Naturama

Gunmen of Abilene

1950

F

R665677

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Guns and Guitars

1936

—

X-GA

R319946

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Guns in the Dark

1937

F

X-SP

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

released HTS/NTA 1950s–1960s; Supreme; reissued in 1946 by Bell Pictures

Gunsmoke Ranch

1937

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Guy Could Change, A

1946

F

R548952

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Hands Across the Border

1944

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Happy Go Lucky

1936

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Harbor of Missing Men

1950

F

R665664

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Harvester, The

1936

—

X-RP

R319941

©Republic Pictures Corp.

–

Havana Rose

1951

T

RE018-079

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Headin’ for God’s Country

1943

F

R496351

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Headline Hunters

1955

TF

RE170-794

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Heart of the Golden West

1942

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Heart of the Rio Grande

1942

—

X-GA

R462312

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Heart of the Rockies

1937

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Heart of the Rockies

1951

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Roy Rogers

Heart of Virginia

1948

F

R606068

©Republic Pictures Corp.

–

Hearts in Bondage

1936

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Heldorado

1946

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Hell Canyon Outlaws

1957

—

X-HT

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

–

released HTS/NTA 1950s–1960s; UK: The Tall Trouble

Hell Ship Mutiny

1957

—

X-HT

-----------

never registered

✓

released HTS/NTA 1950s–1960s

Hellfire

1949

TF

R645398

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor

Hell’s Crossroads

1957

F

RE238-955

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Naturama

Hell’s Half Acre

1954

TF

RE136-437

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Hell’s Outpost

1954

TF

RE136-450

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Here Comes Elmer

1943

F

R503508

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Heroes of the Hills

1938

F

R390857

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Heroes of the Saddle

1940

TF

R403869

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Hi, Neighbor

1942

F

R470410

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Hidden City, The

1936

—

X-RP

-----------

never registered

–

from serial; no US release—see
notes

Hidden Guns

1956

—

X-HT

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

released HTS 1950s–1960s

Hidden Valley Outlaws

1944

TF

R510530

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Hideout

1949

F

R645384

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Higgins Family, The

1938

F

R390851

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Hills of Oklahoma

1950

TF

R665667

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Hit Parade, The

1937

T

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

as I’ll Reach for a Star (1950 reissue and TV title)

Hit Parade of 1941

1940

T

R427539

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

as Romance and Rhythm (1953 reissue and TV title)

Hit Parade of 1943

1943

TF

R487423

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

as Change of Heart (1949 reissue and TV title)

Hit Parade of 1947

1947

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

as High and Happy (TV title)

Hit Parade of 1951

1950

TF

R682670

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

as Song Parade (TV title)

Hit the Saddle

1937

T

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Hitch Hike Lady

1935

TF

R318942

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: Eventful Journey

Hitchhike to Happiness

1945

TF

R531039

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Hi-Yo Silver

1940

—

X-RP

R423834

©Republic Pictures Corp.

–

from serial (expired underlying rights)

Hollywood Stadium Mystery!

1938

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

released in some exchanges as The Stadium Murders

Home in Oklahoma

1946

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Home in Wyomin’

1942

—

X-GA

R462320

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Home on the Prairie

1939

—

X-GA

R389269

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Home on the Range

1946

TF

R554195

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Magnacolor

Homesteaders of Paradise
Valley

1947

F

X-RR

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Red Ryder series

Homicide for Three

1948

TF

R625123

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: An Interrupted Honeymoon

Honeychile

1951

F

RE018-084

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor—the first in the three-color process

Hoodlum Empire

1952

T

RE049-455

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Hoosier Holiday

1943

F

R496352

©Republic Pictures Corp.

–

UK: Farmyard Follies

House by the River

1950

—

X

R665663

©Republic Pictures Corp.

×

Never released to TV, the literary rights reverted to the original author, A.P. Herbert, in 1959

House of a Thousand Candles,
The

1936

F

R319833

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Hurricane Smith

1941

F

R441087

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

as Double Identity (TV title)

I Cover the Underworld

1955

TF

RE170-785

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

I Dream of Jeanie (with the
Light Brown Hair)

1952

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor

I, Jane Doe

1948

F

R606069

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: Diary of a Bride

I Stand Accused

1938

F

R393736

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

I Was a Convict

1939

F

R389268

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Ice-Capades

1941

T

R443100

©Republic Pictures Corp.

–

reissued in 1950 as Music in the Moonlight

Ice-Capades Revue

1942

TF

R479743

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

as Rhythm Hits the Ice (1949 reissue and TV title)

Idaho

1943

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Identity Unknown

1945

T

X-FW

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

×

released NTA 1965–1984

In Old Amarillo

1951

T

RE018-072

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Roy Rogers

In Old Caliente

1939

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

In Old California

1942

TF

R465253

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

In Old Cheyenne

1941

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

In Old Missouri

1940

F

R423843

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

In Old Monterey

1939

—

X-GA

R394250

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

In Old Oklahoma

1943

TF

R503509

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

as War of the Wildcats (retitled shortly after its initial release)

In Old Sacramento

1946

TF

R554194

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

reissued in 1951 as Flame of Sacramento

Inner Circle, The

1946

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Inside Story, The

1948

TF

R606058

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

reissued in 1954 as The Big Gamble

Insurance Investigator

1951

F

RE018-065

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Invisible Avenger

1958

—

X

-----------

never registered

–

reissued in 1962 by MPA Feature Films, Inc. as Bourbon Street Shadows (with new scenes)

Invisible Enemy

1938

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Invisible Informer, The

1946

F

R554218

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Iron Mountain Trail

1953

TF

RE088-810

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

It Could Happen to You

1937

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

I’ve Always Loved You

1946

TF

R557425

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Technicolor; UK: Concerto

Jaguar

1956

TF

RE170-799

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Jamboree

1944

F

R510537

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Jealousy

1945

—

X

R531040

©Republic Pictures Corp.

–

released NTA 1950s

Jeepers Creepers

1939

F

R397229

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: Money Isn’t Everything

Jesse James at Bay

1941

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Jesse James, Jr.

1942

TF

R462317

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

as Sundown Fury (TV title)

Jim Hanvey—Detective

1937

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Joan of Ozark

1942

F

R470411

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: The Queen of Spies

Johnny Doughboy

1942

F

R479747

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Johnny Guitar

1954

TF

RE136-443

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor

Join the Marines

1937

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Journey to Freedom

1957

—

X-HT

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

–

released HTS 1950s–1960s

Jubilee Trail

1954

TF

RE136-438

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor

Jungle Stampede

1950

TF

R670684

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

documentary

Juvenile Jungle

1958

TF

RE298-711

©Coronado Pictures, Inc.

✓

Naturama

Kansas Cyclone

1941

F

R441085

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Kansas Terrors, The

1939

TF

R397148

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Kid from Cleveland, The

1949

TF

R645408

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

King of the Cowboys

1943

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

King of the Gamblers

1948

TF

R609255

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

King of the Newsboys

1938

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

King of the Pecos

1936

TF

R319836

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Ladies in Distress

1938

T

R386885

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Lady and the Monster, The

1944

TF

R510531

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

reissued in 1949 as The Tiger Man; UK: The Lady and the Doctor

Lady Behave!

1938

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Lady for a Night

1942

TF

R458729

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Lady from Louisiana

1941

TF

R437478

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Lady Possessed

1952

TF

RE018-092

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

US-UK co-production

Lady Wants Mink, The

1953

TF

RE049-472

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor

Lake Placid Serenade

1944

TF

R520397

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

reissued in 1953 as Winter Serenade

Laramie Trail, The

1944

F

R510529

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Larceny on the Air

1937

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Last Bandit, The

1949

TF

R645400

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor

Last Command, The

1955

TF

RE170-793

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor

Last Crooked Mile, The

1946

TF

R554208

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Last Frontier Uprising

1947

TF

R582725

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor

Last Musketeer, The

1952

F

RE049-452

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Last Stagecoach West

1957

TF

RE238-969

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Naturama

Laughing Irish Eyes

1936

F

R319838

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Law of the Golden West

1949

TF

R645391

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Lawless Eighties, The

1957

F

RE238-978

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Naturama

Lawless Land

1936

F

X-SP

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

released HTS/NTA 1950s–1960s; Supreme; reissued in 1946 by Bell Pictures

Lawless Nineties, The

1936

TF

R319835

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Lawless Range

1935

TF

R318939

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Lawman Is Born, A

1937

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Supreme; reissued in 1946 by Bell Pictures

Lay That Rifle Down

1955

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Leadville Gunslinger

1952

F

RE049-451

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Leathernecks Have Landed,
The

1936

TF

R319943

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: The Marines Have Landed

Leavenworth Case, The

1936

TF

R319829

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Lightnin’ Crandall

1937

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Supreme; reissued in 1946 by Bell Pictures

Lightnin’ in the Forest

1948

TF

R606065

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Lights of Old Santa Fe

1944

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Lisbon

1956

TF

RE200-349

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor and Naturama; US-Portugal co-production

London Blackout Murders

1943

F

R479745

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: Secret Motive

Lone Star Raiders

1940

TF

R427550

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Lone Texas Ranger

1945

F

X-RR

R531031

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Red Ryder series

Lonely Heart Bandits

1950

TF

R675446

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Lonely Trail, The

1936

TF

R319945

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Los vengadores

1950

—

X-RP

-----------

never registered

–

US-Argentina co-production; Spanish version of The Avengers

Lost Planet Airmen

1951

TF

-----------

never registered

✓

from serial

Love, Honor and Goodbye

1945

F

R548968

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Macbeth

1948

TF

R616961

©Literary Classics
Productions

✓

Madonna of the Desert

1948

TF

R606063

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Madonna’s Secret, The

1946

TF

R554213

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Magic Fire

1956

TF

RE170-803

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor; US-W. Germany co-production

Magnificent Rogue, The

1947

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Main Street Kid, The

1948

TF

R606057

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Main Street Lawyer

1939

F

R398450

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: Small Town Lawyer

Make Haste to Live

1954

TF

RE136-442

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Mama Runs Wild

1938

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Man Alone, A

1955

TF

RE170-800

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor

Man Betrayed, A

1936

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Man Betrayed, A

1941

TF

R433156

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

as Wheel of Fortune (TV title); UK: Citadel of Crime

Man from Cheyenne

1942

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Man from Frisco

1944

TF

R517616

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Man from Music Mountain

1938

—

X-GA

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Man from Music Mountain

1943

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers); as Texas Legionnaires (TV title)

Man from Oklahoma

1945

TF

R554753
R554754

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Man from Rainbow Valley

1946

F

R554217

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Magnacolor

Man from the Rio Grande, The

1943

TF

R496361

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Man from Thunder River, The

1943

TF

R492738

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Man Is Armed, The

1956

F

RE200-356

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Man of Conquest

1939

TF

R389279

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Man or Gun

1958

F

RE352-394

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Naturama

Man Who Died Twice, The

1958

F

RE430-944
RE433-341

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Naturama

Mandarin Mystery, The

1936

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Manhattan Merry-Go-Round

1937

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: Manhattan Music Box

Mantrap, The

1943

F

R492729

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Marshal of Amarillo

1948

TF

R609262

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Marshal of Cedar Rock

1953

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Marshal of Cripple Creek

1947

F

X-RR

R582741

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Red Ryder series

Marshal of Laredo

1945

F

X-RR

R548962

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Red Ryder series

Marshal of Reno

1944

F

X-RR

R517620

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Red Ryder series

Maverick Queen, The

1956

TF

RE200-347

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor and Naturama

Meet the Boy Friend

1937

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Meet the Missus

1940

T

R427551

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Melody and Moonlight

1940

F

R427541

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Melody Ranch

1940

—

X-GA

R427543

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Melody Trail

1935

—

X-GA

R318935

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Mercy Island

1941

F

R447995

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Mexicali Rose

1939

—

X-GA

R389274

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Mexicana

1945

TF

R548970

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

reissued as Beyond the Rio Grande (1949) and Beyond the Border (1950)

Michael O’Halloran

1937

—

X-RP

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

–

also copyrighted and released as Any Man’s Wife

Mickey, the Kid

1939

F

R389689

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Million Dollar Pursuit

1951

T

RE018-075

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Missile Monsters

1958

T

RE430-170
RE430-947

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

from serial

Missing Women

1951

TF

RE018-058

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Missouri Outlaw, A

1941

F

R452618

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Missourians, The

1950

TF

R682675

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Mojave Firebrand

1944

TF

R510534

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Money to Burn

1939

TF

R403870

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Moonlight Masquerade

1942

TF

R465254

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Moonrise

1948

TF

R625114

©Chas. K. Feldman
Group Productions

✓

Moscow Strikes Back

1942

—

X

-----------

never registered

–

documentary

Mountain Moonlight

1941

F

R441086

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: Moving in Society

Mountain Rhythm

1939

—

X-GA

R389281

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Mountain Rhythm

1943

F

R487414

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: Harvest Days

Mr. District Attorney

1941

—

X

R433160

©Republic Pictures Corp.

–

Mr. District Attorney in the
Carter Case

1941

—

X

-----------

never registered

–

UK: The Carter Case

Murder in the Music Hall

1946

T

R554192

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

reissued in 1951 as Midnight Melody

My Best Gal

1944

T

R510536

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

My Buddy

1944

F

R520389

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

My Pal Trigger

1946

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

My Wife’s Relatives

1939

F

R389270

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Mysterious Miss X, The

1939

F

R389271

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Mysterious Mr. Valentine, The

1946

T

R557430

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Mystery Broadcast

1943

TF

R503506

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Navajo Trail Raiders

1949

TF

R645415

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Navy Blues

1937

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Navy Born

1936

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

as Mariners of the Sky (TV title)

Nevada City

1941

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

New Frontier

1939

TF

R394249

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

as Frontier Horizon (TV title)

New Frontier, The

1935

TF

R318934

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Night Hawk, The

1938

F

R393735

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Night Riders, The

1939

TF

R389275

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Night Riders of Montana

1951

F

RE018-061

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Night Time in Nevada

1948

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor; MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Night Train to Memphis

1946

TF

R554209

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

No Man’s Woman

1955

TF

RE170-798

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

No Place to Land

1958

F

RE430-169
RE430-945

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Naturama; UK: Man Mad

Nobody’s Darling

1943

F

R496355

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

North of the Great Divide

1950

TF

R682671

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor; Roy Rogers

Northwest Outpost

1947

TF

R582731

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: End of the Rainbow

Notorious Mr. Monks, The

1958

TF

RE298-704

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Naturama

O, My Darling Clementine

1943

F

R503521

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Oh, Susanna!

1936

—

X-GA

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

–

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Oh! Susanna

1951

TF

RE018-067

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor

Oklahoma Annie

1952

TF

RE040-758

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor

Oklahoma Badlands

1948

F

R606062

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Oklahoma Renegades

1940

F

R427530

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Old Barn Dance, The

1938

—

X-GA

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Old Corral, The

1936

—

X-GA

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry); UK: Texas Serenade

Old Frontier, The

1950

F

R670681

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Old Homestead, The

1942

F

R470415

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Old Los Angeles

1948

TF

R606067

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

reissued in 1953 as California Outpost

Old Oklahoma Plains

1952

F

RE049-468

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Old Overland Trail

1953

TF

RE088-804

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

On the Old Spanish Trail

1947

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor; MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

One Exciting Week

1946

F

R554216

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

One Man’s Law

1940

TF

R423855

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

$1000 a Minute

1935

F

R318941

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Oregon Trail

1945

F

R548953

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Oregon Trail, The

1936

—

X-RP

R319825

©Republic Pictures Corp.

–

Oregon Trail Scouts

1947

F

X-RR

R582732

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Red Ryder series

Orphans of the Street

1938

F

R389265

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Out California Way

1946

TF

R568605

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor

Out of the Storm

1948

T

R625110

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Outcast, The

1954

TF

RE136-445

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor; UK: The Fortune Hunter

Outcasts of the City

1958

—

X-HT

-----------

never registered

–

released HTS 1950s–1960s

Outcasts of the Trail

1949

TF

R645395

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Outlaws of Cherokee Trail

1941

TF

R447992

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Outlaws of Pine Ridge

1942

F

R479741

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Outlaws of Santa Fe

1944

TF

R510535

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Outlaws of Sonora

1938

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Outside of Paradise

1938

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Overland Mail Robbery

1943

F

R503510

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Overland Stage Raiders

1938

TF

R391798

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Painted Stallion, The

1938

—

X-RP

-----------

never registered

–

from serial; no US release—see
notes

Pals of the Golden West

1951

TF

RE018-089

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Roy Rogers

Pals of the Pecos

1941

F

R437475

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Pals of the Saddle

1938

TF

R390855

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Panama Sal

1957

TF

RE250-190

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Naturama

Paradise Express

1937

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Pardon My Stripes

1942

TF

R458733

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Paroled—To Die

1938

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Supreme; reissued in 1946 by Bell Pictures

Passkey to Danger

1946

F

R554201

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Pawnee

1957

TF

RE238-979

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor; UK: Pale Arrow

Perilous Journey, A

1953

TF

RE088-803

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Petticoat Politics

1941

F

R429324

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Phantom Cowboy, The

1941

TF

R433154

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Phantom of the Plains

1945

F

X-RR

R548964

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Red Ryder series; initially released as Texas Manhunt

Phantom Plainsmen, The

1942

F

R465255

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Phantom Speaks, The

1945

F

R531027

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Phantom Stallion

1954

TF

RE136-439

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Pilgrim Lady, The

1947

TF

R568604

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Pioneer Marshal

1949

TF

R648428

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Pioneers of the West

1940

TF

R423833

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Pistol Packin’ Mama

1943

TF

R503517

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Pittsburgh Kid, The

1941

F

R443098

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Plainsman and the Lady

1946

TF

R568606

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

reissued in 1954 as Drumbeats Over Wyoming

Plunderers, The

1948

TF

R625120

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor

Plunderers of Painted Flats

1959

F

RE304-616

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Naturama

Port of Forty Thieves, The

1944

TF

R517624

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Portia on Trial

1937

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: The Trial of Portia Merriman

Post Office Investigator

1949

F

R645409

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Powder River Rustlers

1949

F

R648424

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Prairie Moon

1938

—

X-GA

R393734

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Prairie Pioneers

1941

F

R433155

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

President’s Mystery, The

1936

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: One for All

Pretender, The

1947

F

X-FW

R599785

©Republic Pictures Corp.

×

released NTA 1965–1984

Pride of Maryland

1951

TF

RE002-658

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Pride of the Navy

1939

F

R386865

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Pride of the Plains

1943

TF

R503515

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Prince of the Plains

1949

F

R645390

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Prison Nurse

1938

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Prisoners in Petticoats

1950

TF

R675453

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Public Cowboy No. 1

1937

—

X-GA

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Public Enemies

1941

T

R448001

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

as Gangs of the City (retitled shortly after its initial release)

Puddin’ Head

1941

F

R441083

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: Judy Goes to Town

Purple V, The

1943

F

R487425

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Purple Vigilantes, The

1938

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: The Purple Riders

Quiet Man, The

1952

TF

RE049-465

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Technicolor

Racing Luck

1935

—

X-CW

R318937

©Republic Pictures Corp.

–

Rags to Riches

1941

F

R441090

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Raiders of Old California

1957

—

X-HT

-----------

never registered

–

released HTS 1950s–1960s

Raiders of Sunset Pass

1943

F

R503519

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Raiders of the Range

1942

F

R462314

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Rainbow Over Texas

1946

TF

R554215

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Rancho Grande

1940

—

X-GA

R423838

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry); also released to TV as El Rancho Grande

Range Defenders

1937

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Ranger and the Lady, The

1940

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Ranger of Cherokee Strip

1949

F

R645420

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Red Menace, The

1949

T

R645404

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

re-edited and re-released in
1950 as Underground Spy; UK: The Enemy Within

Red Pony, The

1949

TF

R645383

©Chas. K. Feldman Group
Prods. and Lewis Mile-
stone Prods., Inc.

✓

Technicolor

Red River Range

1938

TF

R389264

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Red River Renegades

1946

F

R557424

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Red River Shore

1953

TF

RE088-833

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Red River Valley

1936

—

X-GA

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry), as Man of the Frontier

Red River Valley

1941

TF

-----------

never registered

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Red Rope, The

1937

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Supreme; reissued in 1946 by Bell Pictures

Redwood Forest Trail

1950

TF

R675447

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Remember Pearl Harbor!

1942

F

R465251

©Republic Pictures Corp.

–

Rendezvous with Annie

1946

TF

R557422

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

reissued in 1951 as Corporal Dolan Goes A.W.O.L.

Renegades of Sonora

1948

TF

R609264

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Return of Jimmy Valentine,
The

1936

—

X-RP

R319832

©Republic Pictures Corp.

–

released HTS 1950s as Prison Shadows

Rhythm in the Clouds

1937

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Rhythm of the Saddle

1938

—

X-GA

R397223

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Ride Ranger Ride

1936

—

X-GA

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride

1940

—

X-GA

R427536

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Ride the Man Down

1953

TF

RE049-469

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor

Riders of the Black Hills

1938

TF

R386886

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Riders of the Rio Grande

1943

F

R492734

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Riders of the Whistling Skull,
The

1937

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: The Golden Trail

Ridin’ Down the Canyon

1942

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Ridin’ on a Rainbow

1941

—

X-GA

R429323

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Ridin’ the Lone Trail

1937

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Supreme; reissued in 1946 by Bell Pictures

Rio Grande

1950

TF

R682674

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Rio Grande Raiders

1946

TF

R568600

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Road to Alcatraz

1945

F

R548955

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Road to Denver, The

1955

TF

RE170-783

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor

Roarin’ Lead

1936

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Robin Hood of Texas

1947

—

X-GA

R582735

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Robin Hood of the Pecos

1941

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Rock Island Trail

1950

TF

R665671

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor; UK: Transcontinent Express

Rocky Mountain Rangers

1940

F

R423846

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Rodeo King and the Senorita

1951

F

RE018-076

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Roll on Texas Moon

1946

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Romance on the Range

1942

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Romance on the Run

1938

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Roogie’s Bump

1954

—

X

RE136-444
RE143-015

©Republic Pictures Corp.

×

UK: The Kid Colossus; owned by Warner Bros.

Rookies on Parade

1941

F

R437479

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Rootin’ Tootin’ Rhythm

1937

—

X-GA

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry); UK: Rhythm on the Ranch

Rose of the Yukon

1949

TF

R645379

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Rosie, the Riveter

1944

TF

R510538

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: In Rosie’s Room

Rough Riders of Cheyenne

1945

F

R548975

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Rough Riders of Durango

1951

F

RE018-059

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Rough Riders’ Round-up

1939

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

–

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Round-Up Time in Texas

1937

—

X-GA

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Rovin’ Tumbleweeds

1939

—

X-GA

R398638

©Republic Pictures Corp.

–

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Rustlers of Devil’s Canyon

1947

F

X-RR

R582738

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Red Ryder series

Rustlers on Horseback

1950

F

R682669

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

S.O.S. Clipper Island

1937

—

X-RP

-----------

never registered

–

from serial; no US release—see
notes

SOS Coast Guard

1942

F

R462321

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

from serial

S.O.S. Tidal Wave

1939

T

R389284

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: Tidal Wave

Sabotage

1939

F

R397447

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: Spies at Work

Saddle Pals

1947

—

X-GA

R582733

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Saddlemates

1941

F

R437483

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Saga of Death Valley

1939

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Sagebrush Troubadour

1935

—

X-GA

R319827

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Sailors on Leave

1941

F

R447996

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Salt Lake Raiders

1950

F

R665669

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

San Antone

1953

TF

RE088-802

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

San Antone Ambush

1949

F

R645416

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

San Antonio Kid, The

1944

F

X-RR

R517633

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Red Ryder series

San Fernando Valley

1944

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Sands of Iwo Jima

1949

TF

R648426

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Santa Fe Passage

1955

TF

RE170-781

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor

Santa Fe Saddlemates

1945

TF

R531032

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Santa Fe Scouts

1943

TF

R492727

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Santa Fe Stampede

1938

TF

R397224

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Santa Fe Uprising

1946

TF

X-RR

R568602

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Red Ryder series

Satan’s Satellites

1958

F

RE430-165
RE430-946

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

from serial

Savage Frontier

1953

TF

RE088-816

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Savage Horde, The

1950

TF

R665672

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Scandal Incorporated

1956

TF

RE200-357

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Scatterbrain

1940

T

R423851

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Scotland Yard Investigator

1945

T

R548971

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Scream in the Dark, A

1943

F

R496360

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Sea Hornet, The

1951

TF

RE018-083

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Sea of Lost Ships

1953

TF

RE088-831

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Sea Racketeers

1937

T

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Secret Service Investigator

1948

F

R609258

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Secrets of Monte Carlo

1951

T

RE018-071

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Secrets of Scotland Yard

1944

TF

R517621

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Secrets of the Underground

1942

F

R479746

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Shadows of Tombstone

1953

F

RE088-828

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Shadows on the Sage

1942

F

R470413

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Shanghai Story, The

1954

T

RE136-446

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Shantytown

1943

F

R492726

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

She Married a Cop

1939

F

R390160

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Sheik Steps Out, The

1937

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Shepherd of the Ozarks

1942

F

R462318

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: Susanna

Sheriff of Cimarron

1945

F

R531025

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Sheriff of Las Vegas

1944

F

X-RR

R520398

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Red Ryder series

Sheriff of Redwood Valley

1946

F

X-RR

R554197

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Red Ryder series

Sheriff of Sundown

1944

F

R520392

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Sheriff of Tombstone

1941

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Sheriff of Wichita

1949

F

R645381

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Shine on Harvest Moon

1938

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Should Husbands Work?

1939

F

R394252

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Showdown, The

1950

TF

R670685

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Sierra Sue

1941

—

X-GA

R452619

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Silent Partner

1944

F

R517615

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Silver City Bonanza

1951

F

RE018-060

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Silver City Kid

1944

TF

R517630

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Silver Spurs

1943

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Sing, Dance, Plenty Hot

1940

F

R427532

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

as Mania for Melody (TV title); UK: Melody Girl

Sing Neighbor Sing

1944

T

R517627

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Singing Cowboy, The

1936

—

X-GA

R319942

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Singing Guns

1950

TF

R665678

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor

Singing Hill, The

1941

—

X-GA

R437477

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Singing Vagabond, The

1935

—

X-GA

R319831

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Sioux City Sue

1946

—

X-GA

R586245

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Sis Hopkins

1941

TF

R437476

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Sitting on the Moon

1936

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Sleepy Lagoon

1943

TF

R496353

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Sleepytime Gal

1942

F

R462315

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Slippy McGee

1947

TF

R606056

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Smuggled Cargo

1939

F

R394253

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Sombrero Kid, The

1942

F

-----------

never registered

✓

Someone to Remember

1943

T

R492739

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

reissued in 1950 as Gallant Thoroughbred

Son of God’s Country

1948

TF

R625117

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Song for Miss Julie, A

1945

—

X

no renewal

©Pre-Em Pictures, Inc.

–

Song of Arizona

1946

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Song of Mexico

1945

F

R548976

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

US-Mexico co-production

Song of Nevada

1944

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Song of Texas

1943

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Sons of Adventure

1948

F

R625112

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Sons of the Pioneers

1942

TF

R470412

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

South of Caliente

1951

T

RE018-085

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Roy Rogers

South of Rio

1949

F

R645403

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

South of Santa Fe

1942

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

South of the Border

1939

—

X-GA

R400762

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry), as South of Texas

South Pacific Trail

1952

TF

RE049-467

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Southward, Ho!

1939

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Spanish Cape Mystery, The

1935

TF

R318936

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Specter of the Rose

1946

TF

R554211

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Spoilers of the Forest

1957

TF

RE238-956

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor and Naturama

Spoilers of the North

1947

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Spoilers of the Plains

1951

TF

RE002-657

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Roy Rogers

Sporting Chance, A

1945

F

R531038

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Springtime in the Rockies

1937

—

X-GA

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Springtime in the Sierras

1947

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor; MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Stagecoach Express

1942

TF

R462313

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Stagecoach to Denver

1946

F

X-RR

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Red Ryder series

Stagecoach to Monterey

1944

F

R520384

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Stardust on the Sage

1942

—

X-GA

R465252

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Steppin’ in Society

1945

F

R531033

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Stories of the Century No. 1

1954

—

X-RP

-----------

never registered

UK only; no US release—see notes

Storm Over Bengal

1938

F

R397222

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Storm Over Lisbon

1944

T

R517632

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

reissued in 1950 as Inside the Underworld

Strange Adventure, A

1956

T

RE200-350

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Strange Impersonation

1946

F

X-FW

R563068

©Republic Pictures Corp.

×

released NTA 1965–1984

Stranger at My Door

1956

TF

RE200-336

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Strangers in the Night

1944

F

R517628

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Street Bandits

1951

TF

RE018-088

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Street of Darkness

1958

—

X-HT

-----------

never registered

–

released HTS 1960s

Street of Missing Men

1939

F

R389285

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Streets of San Francisco

1949

F

R645397

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Sun Shines Bright, The

1953

TF

RE088-811

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Sun Valley Cyclone

1946

F

X-RR

R554203

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Red Ryder series

Sundown in Santa Fe

1948

TF

R625122

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Sundown Kid, The

1942

TF

R479742

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Sunset in El Dorado

1945

TF

R554755

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Sunset in the West

1950

TF

R675448

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor; Roy Rogers

Sunset in Wyoming

1941

—

X-GA

R441088

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Sunset on the Desert

1942

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Sunset Serenade

1942

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Surrender

1950

TF

R675452

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Susanna Pass

1949

TF

R645389

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor; Roy Rogers

Sweethearts on Parade

1953

F

RE088-819

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor

Swing Your Partner

1943

F

R492735

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Swingin’ on a Rainbow

1945

TF

R548957

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Tahiti Honey

1943

TF

R487421

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Taming Sutton’s Gal

1957

TF

RE266-530
RE281-556

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Naturama

Tarnished

1950

F

R665676

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Tell It to a Star

1945

F

R548958

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Tenth Avenue Kid

1938

F

R390853

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Terror at Midnight

1956

TF

RE200-344

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: And Suddenly You Run

Texas Terrors

1940

F

R427545

©Republic Pictures Corp.

–

That Brennan Girl

1946

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

reissued in 1951 as Tough Girl

That’s My Baby!

1944

T

X-FW

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

×

released NTA 1965–1984

That’s My Gal

1947

F

R582730

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor

That’s My Man

1947

TF

R582729

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

reissued in 1953 as King of the Race Track; UK: Will Tomorrow Ever Come?

This Is Korea!

1951

—

X

-----------

never registered

–

Trucolor; documentary

Thoroughbreds

1944

F

R520396

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Thou Shalt Not Kill

1939

T

R403871

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Three Faces West

1940

TF

R423853

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Three Little Sisters

1944

TF

R517631

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Three Mesquiteers, The

1936

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Three Texas Steers

1939

TF

R389277

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: Danger Rides the Range

Three’s a Crowd

1945

F

R531026

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Thumbs Up

1943

F

R492736

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Thunder in God’s Country

1951

F

RE018-066

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Thunder in the Desert

1938

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Supreme; reissued in 1946 by Bell Pictures

Thunder Over Arizona

1956

TF

RE200-348

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor and Naturama

Thunderbirds

1952

T

RE049-470

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Thundering Caravans

1952

TF

RE049-466

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Thundering Trails

1943

TF

R487415

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Ticket to Paradise

1936

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Tiger Woman, The

1945

F

R548973

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Timber Trail, The

1948

F

R609257

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor

Timberjack

1955

TF

RE136-454

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor

Tobor the Great

1954

TF

RE136-449

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Topeka Terror, The

1945

TF

R531018

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Toughest Man in Arizona

1952

TF

RE049-462

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor

Traffic in Crime

1946

F

R554205

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Tragedy at Midnight, A

1942

F

R458732

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trail Blazers, The

1940

TF

R427544

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trail of Kit Carson

1945

TF

R548956

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trail of Robin Hood

1950

TF

R682677

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor; Roy Rogers

Trail of Vengeance

1937

F

X-SP

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

released HTS/NTA 1950s–1960s; Supreme; reissued in 1946 by Bell Pictures

Trail to San Antone

1947

—

X-GA

R588538

©Republic Pictures Corp.

–

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Train to Alcatraz

1948

F

R609260

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Traitor Within, The

1942

F

R479744

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trespasser, The

1947

T

R582739

©Republic Pictures Corp.

–

Trial Without Jury

1950

TF

R670678

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trigger, Jr.

1950

TF

R670679

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor; Roy Rogers

Trigger Trio, The

1937

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trocadero

1944

—

X-FW

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

–

in NTA library 1965–1984

Tropical Heat Wave

1952

TF

RE049-463

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trusted Outlaw, The

1937

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Supreme; reissued in 1946 by Bell Pictures

Tucson Raiders

1944

F

X-RR

R517617

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Red Ryder series

Tulsa Kid, The

1940

TF

R427531

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Tumbling Tumbleweeds

1935

—

X-GA

R318931

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Tuxedo Junction

1941

F

R452622

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: The Gang Made Good

Twilight in the Sierras

1950

TF

R665668

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor; Roy Rogers

Twilight on the Rio Grande

1947

—

X-GA

R588539

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Twinkle in God’s Eye, The

1955

TF

RE170-795

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Two Gun Sheriff

1941

F

R437481

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Two Sinners

1935

F

R318932

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: Two Black Sheep

Two Wise Maids

1937

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Under California Stars

1948

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor; MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Under Colorado Skies

1947

F

R590897

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor

Under Cover Man

1936

T

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Supreme; reissued in 1946 by Bell Pictures

Under Fiesta Stars

1941

—

X-GA

R443099

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Under Mexicali Stars

1950

TF

R682676

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Under Nevada Skies

1946

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Under Texas Skies

1940

TF

R427535

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Under Western Stars

1938

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Undercover Woman, The

1946

TF

R554193

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Unearthly, The

1957

—

X

RE264-413

©AB-PT Pictures Corp.

✓

Unmasked

1950

TF

R665675

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Untamed Heiress

1954

F

RE136-440

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Utah

1945

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Utah Wagon Train

1951

F

RE018-081

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Valley of Hunted Men

1942

TF

R479740

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Valley of the Zombies

1946

TF

R554196

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Vampire’s Ghost, The

1945

F

R531036

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Vanishing American, The

1955

TF

RE170-797

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Vanishing Westerner, The

1950

TF

R665665

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Vigilante Hideout

1950

TF

R670686

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Vigilantes of Boomtown

1947

F

X-RR

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Red Ryder series

Vigilantes of Dodge City

1944

F

X-RR

R520395

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Red Ryder series

Village Barn Dance

1940

F

R403872

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

WAC from Walla Walla, The

1952

F

RE049-464

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: Army Capers

Wagon Tracks West

1943

TF

R496350

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Wagon Wheels Westward

1945

F

X-RR

R548951

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Red Ryder series

Wagons Westward

1940

F

R423844

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Wake of the Red Witch

1948

TF

R645382

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Wall Street Cowboy

1939

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Wayward Girl, The

1957

TF

RE266-529
RE281-555

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Naturama

Web of Danger

1947

TF

R582727

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Wells Fargo Gunmaster

1951

TF

RE018-068

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

West of Cimarron

1941

F

-----------

never registered

✓

West Side Kid, The

1943

F

R496359

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Western Jamboree

1938

—

X-GA

R397225

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry)

Westward Ho

1935

TF

R318930

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Westward Ho

1942

TF

R462323

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

as Riders for Justice (TV title)

When Gangland Strikes

1956

TF

RE200-335

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Whispering Footsteps

1943

F

R503516

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Who Killed Aunt Maggie?

1940

F

R427542

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Wild Blue Yonder, The

1951

TF

RE018-087

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: Thunder Across the Pacific

Wild Frontier, The

1947

TF

R590896

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Wild Horse Ambush

1952

F

RE049-454

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Wild Horse Rodeo

1937

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Winds of the Wasteland

1936

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Winter Wonderland

1947

F

X-FW

R599733

©Republic Pictures Corp.

×

released NTA 1965–1984

Wolf of New York

1940

F

R403873

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Woman Doctor

1939

F

R389267

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Woman in the Dark

1952

TF

RE018-093

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Woman of the North Country

1952

TF

RE049-461

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor

Woman They Almost Lynched

1953

TF

RE088-805

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Woman Who Came Back

1945

F

X-FW

R561386

©Republic Pictures Corp.

×

released NTA 1965–1984

Woman’s Devotion, A

1956

TF

RE200-358

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor; as Battle Shock (1958 re-release and TV title); UK: War Shock; US-Mexico co-production

Women from Headquarters

1950

TF

R665670

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Women in War

1940

F

R423852

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Wrong Road, The

1937

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Wyoming

1947

TF

R582737

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Wyoming Bandit, The

1949

F

R645402

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Wyoming Outlaw

1939

TF

R389280

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Wyoming Wildcat

1941

F

R427554

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

X Marks the Spot

1942

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Yankee Fakir

1947

F

X-FW

R599772

©Republic Pictures Corp.

×

released NTA 1965–1984

Yellow Rose of Texas, The

1944

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Yellowneck

1955

—

X-HT

no renewal

©Empire Studios, Inc.

–

Trucolor; released HTS 1950s–1960s

Yodelin’ Kid from Pine Ridge

1937

—

X-GA

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Gene Autry); UK: The Hero of Pine Ridge

Yokel Boy

1942

F

R479738

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

UK: Hitting the Headlines

Young and Wild

1958

TF

RE304-617

©Esla Pictures, Inc.

✓

Naturama

Young Bill Hickok

1940

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Young Buffalo Bill

1940

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

MCA-TV 1955–1960 (Roy Rogers)

Youth on Parade

1942

TF

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Youth on Parole

1937

F

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Yukon Patrol, The

1942

—

X-RP

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

–

from serial (expired underlying rights)

Zanzabuku

1956

F

RE213-446

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Trucolor; documentary

Zero Hour, The

1939

T

no renewal

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

Zorro Rides Again

1959

T

RE430-167

©Republic Pictures Corp.

✓

from serial

In the UK in 1954, Republic released theatrically two episodes of its TV series “Stories of the Century” as a 59-minute feature titled “Stories of the Century No. 1.” The episodes used were “Quantrill and His Raiders” and “Belle Starr,” both co-starring Mary Castle.

Although not released by Republic, special mention must be given to “Too Late for Tears” (1949), made at the Republic Studio for independent producer Hunt Stromberg’s Streamline Pictures for release by United Artists. All post-production work (music, editing, special effects) was done at the studio—all in-house except for the financing. The film, now in the public domain, was reissued by Astor Pictures in 1955 as “Killer Bait.”

Another completely in-house production made at the Republic Studio was “Montana Belle” for producer Howard Welsch’s Fidelity Pictures. Initially intended as a Republic release, after its completion in late 1948, RKO purchased the film from Fidelity in early 1949, marking the second time Republic’s color process, Trucolor, would be released by another company. Announced to hit the exchanges a number of times in the proceeding years, “Montana Belle,” however, sat on the shelf until its general release in November 1952.

Another independent feature in Trucolor predated the release of “Montana Belle.” Norman Dawn’s obscure “The Daring Miss Jones” was released in 1951 by Exploitation Film Distributors, Inc., the bulk of the film lensed in 1947.

The following is a list of production companies for films prefaced by ‘X’ in American Features, excluding the Red Ryder series, Gene Autry titles and those culled from serials. Republic’s producing arm was Republic Productions, Inc.—the distributing arm was Republic Pictures Corp.— so this has been used to denote in-house product:

Affairs of Jimmy Valentine (Republic Productions; also released to TV as “Unforgotten Crime”), African Manhunt (Trinity Productions), The Avengers (Republic Productions), Beginning of the End (AB-PT Pictures), Behind City Lights (Republic Productions), The Big Show-Off (Williams-Spence Productions), Bill and Coo (Ken Murray Productions), Burning Gold (Select Productions/Winchester Pictures), Cancion de Mexico (Republic Productions; Spanish version of “Song of Mexico”), Crazylegs (Hall Bartlett Productions), The Crime of Doctor Crespi (Select Productions/JHA [John H. Auer] Pictures; principal photography was completed September 27, 1934, at the Biograph Studio, New York), Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer (Gannaway-Ver Halen Productions), Deerslayer (Cardinal Pictures), Eighteen and Anxious (AB-PT Pictures), The Fabulous Suzanne (Star Pictures [Steve Sekely Productions]), Federal Agent (Select Productions/Winchester Pictures), Frankie and Johnnie (Select Productions/All Star Productions; principal photography was completed March 9, 1934, at the Biograph Studio, New York, with retakes a year later), The French Key (Walter Colmes Productions), Fugitive Lady (Scalera Film/Venus Film [Mike J. Frankovich]; made in Italy in both English and Italian versions), A Gentle Gangster (A.W. Hackel Productions), Girl in the Woods (AB-PT Pictures), The Glass Alibi (W. Lee Wilder Productions), Go-Get-’Em, Haines (Select Productions/Winchester Pictures), The Great Flamarion (Filmdom Productions [W. Lee Wilder Productions]), The Harvester (Republic Productions), Hell Canyon Outlaws (Jerold Zukor Productions), Hell Ship Mutiny (Lovina Productions; culled from at least three episodes of the ill-fated TV series “Knight of the South Seas”), Hidden Guns (Gannaway-Ver Halen Productions), House by the River (Fidelity Pictures), Identity Unknown (Walter Colmes Productions), Invisible Avenger (Demby Productions; culled from two television pilots), Jealousy (Gong Productions), Journey to Freedom (Apostolof Productions), Los vengadores (Republic Productions; Spanish version of “The Avengers”), Michael O’Halloran (Republic Productions), Moscow Strikes Back (Central Studios [USSR]/Artkino Pictures; Artkino had this American version of a Russian documentary in release for a month before Republic struck a deal for distribution rights), Mr. District Attorney (Republic Productions), Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case (Republic Productions), The Oregon Trail (Republic Productions), Outcasts of the City (Lorraine Productions), The Pretender (W.W. [W. Lee Wilder] Productions), Racing Luck (Select Productions/Winchester Pictures), Raiders of Old California (Albert C. Gannaway Productions [Gavel, Inc.]), The Return of Jimmy Valentine (Republic Productions; also released to TV as “Prison Shadows”), Roogie’s Bump (John Bash Productions), A Song for Miss Julie (Pre-Em Pictures), Strange Impersonation (William [W. Lee] Wilder Productions), Street of Darkness (Robert Keys Productions; seldom seen indie made as “Seed of Darkness” and “Hop Alley” in New Orleans), That’s My Baby! (Walter Colmes Productions), This Is Korea! (United States Navy/Republic Productions), Trocadero (Walter Colmes Productions), The Unearthly (Brooke L. Peters [Boris Petroff]), Winter Wonderland (Walter Colmes Productions), Woman Who Came Back (Walter Colmes Productions), Yankee Fakir (W. Lee Wilder Productions), Yellowneck (Empire Studios).

Note that other independent companies, many with financial guarantees from Republic, made films for the studio.

Republic’s second venture into foreign production after “Cancion de Mexico” (“Song of Mexico,” 1945) was “The Avengers” in 1949, filmed mainly in Argentina and also at the company’s Hollywood studio. The film, also made in a Spanish version titled “Los vengadores”—with Fernando Lamas instead of John Carroll in the male lead among other differences—would not have been lensed in Argentina if not for Republic’s frozen funds in the country.

“Atlantic City” (1944, R520385) was re-edited and theatrically reissued by Republic in 1950 as “Atlantic City Honeymoon.” The reissue was copyrighted and registered that year under the new title and renewed in 1977 as R682673. This is the only case of a Republic reissue being copyrighted and renewed.

“Michael O’Halloran” (1937) was also copyrighted by Republic as “Any Man’s Wife” shortly after its initial registration, reflecting its new release title. The 1948 version, made by Windsor Pictures Corp. for release by Monogram, later ended up in the Republic library—via the TV library of M&A Alexander Productions—and was renewed by National Telefilm Associates as R616958.

The copyright renewal for “Hell Canyon Outlaws” by Tartan Enterprises is bogus, along with the other 19 films renewed by the company. The renewal number is excluded.

“Beginning of the End” (1957), “Eighteen and Anxious” (1957), “Girl in the Woods” (1958), and “The Unearthly” (1957) had their copyrights renewed by Peter S. Rodgers, a former NTA executive who was with the company since 1955. The films are now in the library of the Peter Rodgers Organization. All were initially released to TV by M&A Alexander Productions, Inc. which by 1966, with Rodgers as its president, was a division of NTA. The Peter Rodgers Organization also distributes the Republic title “Yellowneck” (1955).

Formed in 1933 by M.H. Hoffman, his son and Budd Rogers, Liberty Pictures Corp. was absorbed into Republic in 1935. Based on this news item, the company owned Liberty’s film library:

Weekly Variety, February 10, 1954:

Republic Sues DuMont

Infringement action involving six pix on tv was filed in N.Y. Federal Court last week by Republic against DuMont and Sutton Television. The company also sued Ideal Television Co. in connection with 12 films. Republic asked an injunction to keep DuMont from infringing on its rights to the films, as well as for damages, an accounting and return of the negatives.

The pix, according to Republic, were made by Liberty Films in 1933. In 1939 they became the property of Consolidated Film Industries and in 1945, with the merger of Consolidated and Republic, they became the latter’s property. Company claims the defendants were notified of the Republic claim but the showing of the pictures continued.

Among the titles involved are “Once [to] Every Bachelor,” “Sweepstake Annie,” “Dizzy Dames” and “Born to Gamble.”

The total number of films in the litigation was 12, not 18 in the ambiguity of Weekly Variety—another report in Motion Picture Daily stated the total was 12 pictures. Sutton had six of them, while Ideal had all 12, a case of two different distributors handling the same product.

Besides the four titles mentioned, the other eight would have been “Cheaters,” “No Ransom,” “The Old Homestead,” “School for Girls,” “Take the Stand,” “Two Heads on a Pillow,” “When Strangers Meet,” and “Without Children.”

All 12 were copyrighted by Liberty Pictures Corp. and made between 1933–1935, the majority at the RKO Pathé Studio, Culver City.

Why Republic did not monetize these films on TV is unknown, as was the litigation’s outcome. The titles were never officially released to TV even after 1954.

It was certainly not unusual for a laboratory to own films, typically due to indebtedness, but it was unusual not to exploit them in some way. Many were based on stories by prominent authors, so there may have been rights issues.

With the initial formation of Republic, the company had to keep its exchanges going with product while in-house productions were underway. A good source for the Monogram, Mascot, Liberty and Majestic titles Republic distributed is The Philadelphia Exhibitor, published beginning on November 1, 1935. Presented below are those listings, edited to include only the titles and exchange information.

The exchanges listed are incomplete, however, since the publication catered to the Philadelphia area, “elsewhere” as referenced in the listings meaning the general vicinity. Republic had 33 US exchange territories and most did not handle Mascot, Liberty and Majestic which were otherwise distributed by state rights outfits, not by the studio on a national level.

Despite the limited number of Republic exchanges distributing Mascot, Liberty and Majestic, the five exchange territories of Albany, Buffalo, New York, Philadelphia and Washington covered 33 percent of the country’s theaters.

Republic finalized its distribution setup by the middle of May 1935, the core of it based on Monogram’s system. As documented in The Philadelphia Exhibitor, the Republic exchange there did not handle Monogram, otherwise Republic took care of its predecessor’s distribution nationwide.

From the beginning, disregarding company-owned exchanges, Republic franchises were given only to those who handled their product exclusively, a practice that continued almost until the company’s demise in 1959. Mascot, Liberty and Majestic were notable exceptions—there were others—until the dust settled.

Unlike Republic’s policy, Monogram allowed their franchises to handle outside product. When Mascot finalized its national distribution setup for the 1934–35 program in July 1934, 15 Monogram exchanges were contracted, all of which became Republic in 1935. All would continue to handle Mascot’s product under existing agreements.

Some of these Monogram exchanges that became Republic also handled B outfits like Supreme, Puritan and Conn, to name a few. There is no way to document what exchanges released what titles, nor is it important. My curiosity lies with the product of those companies absorbed into Republic and the details regarding distribution.

The key is that initially a number of Republic exchanges operated as state rights distributors, releasing the films of Mascot, Liberty and Majestic not because of corporate takeovers but because of agreements signed before Republic was even created.

Exchange territories can be misleading since some may assume it only means the limits of the cities referenced. Those listed below for Mascot, Liberty and Majestic are defined to illustrate the scope of some of the 31 major national distribution territories; state rights for independents generally had at least 19 major territories, the boundaries defined differently:

Albany: upper New York, western Vermont and western Massachusetts. Atlanta: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, parts of Mississippi and South Carolina and Tennessee east of the Tennessee River. Boston: Maine, Massachusetts, except extreme western part, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and all but extreme section of Vermont. Buffalo: western New York State. Charlotte: North Carolina and most of South Carolina. Cincinnati: southern Ohio and parts of Kentucky and West Virginia. Cleveland: northern half of Ohio. Dallas: Texas. Detroit: lower peninsula of Michigan. Kansas City: Kansas and western Missouri. Los Angeles: part of Arizona, Southern California and parts of Mexico, New Mexico and Nevada. New Orleans: Louisiana and part of Mississippi. New York: Long Island, greater New York City, New York State as far as Poughkeepsie and northern New Jersey. Oklahoma City: Oklahoma. Omaha: western Iowa and most of Nebraska. Philadelphia: most of Delaware, southern New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh: western Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Portland: part of Idaho and most of Oregon. San Francisco: northern California, Nevada and southern Oregon. Seattle: Washington and western Montana. Washington: District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia, small section of Delaware.

The original release dates for all but three of the titles listed below are from Harrison’s Reports, the others and three serials from Motion Picture Herald.

Monogram Pictures Corp.:

(Distributed in Albany, Buffalo, New York City, Washington by Republic; in Philadelphia by First Division [First Division Exchanges, Inc.]).

Except for Philadelphia, Monogram was handled by the 32 other Republic exchanges.

Harry H. Thomas, head of First Division, reported in March 1935 that he had “disposed of the Monogram franchise in the New York territory and our commitments in Philadelphia will not be renewed,” a sign of the backroom discussions going on before the formation of Republic.

First Division’s contract terminated at the end of the 1934-35 releasing season.

• Tomorrow’s Youth (9-15-1934)
• A Girl of the Limberlost (10-15-1934)
• The Trail Beyond (10-22-1934)
• Redhead (11-1-1934)
• Lost in the Stratosphere (11-15-1934)
• Successful Failure (11-15-1934)
• Girl O’ My Dreams (11-17-1934)
• The Lawless Frontier (11-22-1934)
• Flirting with Danger (12-1-1934)
• ’Neath the Arizona Skies (12-5-1934)
• Sing Sing Nights (12-15-1934)
• The Mysterious Mr. Wong (12-22-1934)
• Million Dollar Baby (1-15-1935)
• Texas Terror (2-1-1935)
• Women Must Dress (2-1-1935)
• Rainbow Valley (3-15-1935)
• The Nut Farm (3-25-1935)
• Great God Gold (4-15-1935)
• The Desert Trail (4-22-1935)
• The Mystery Man (4-25-1935)
• The Hoosier Schoolmaster (5-15-1935)
• Honeymoon, Limited (6-1-1935)
• The Healer (6-15-1935)
• The Dawn Rider (6-20-1935)
• The Keeper of the Bees (7-15-1935)
• Paradise Canyon (7-20-1935)
• Make a Million (7-25-1935)
• Cheers of the Crowd (8-5-1935)

Mascot Pictures Corp.:

(Distributed in Washington by Gold Medal [Gold Medal Film Company, Inc.], elsewhere by Republic).

Only feature films were included in The Philadelphia Exhibitor for these specific listings, but Mascot’s last three serials had the same distribution.

Fifteen Monogram exchanges were contracted by July 1934 for Mascot’s product, all becoming Republic in 1935: Albany, Atlanta, Boston, Buffalo, Charlotte, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Kansas City, Little Rock, New Orleans, New York, Oklahoma City, Omaha and Tampa. All continued to distribute Mascot under existing agreements.

Mascot had formed their own exchanges in Seattle and Portland in 1932, purchasing those of its former franchise holder, Slater-Hurst Company. Both Mascot exchanges acquired the Majestic Pictures franchises and were known under that name—and Mascot Film Exchanges—as Majestic was finalizing its national distribution setup.

The Sheffield Exchange System, previously with Monogram, acquired the Republic franchises for the Northwest and Sheffield assumed Mascot’s rights for Seattle and Portland.

Gold Medal Film Co., Philadelphia, which handled Republic with its formal opening on July 15, 1935, was one of Mascot’s 1934 franchises. Herman Gluckman, the franchise owner of Republic for Philadelphia (previously owned by First Division), used Gold Medal’s facilities to create a combined Gold Medal-Republic exchange. Like New York, Gluckman’s Philadelphia exchange was originally called Capital Film Exchange, Inc.

So along with Philadelphia, Seattle and Portland, 18 Republic exchanges handled Mascot. Gold Medal also had an exchange in Washington, which handled Mascot as per the 1934 agreement.

Herman Gluckman owned Mascot’s franchise for New York, acquired in 1929 for his Capital Film Exchange, Inc., which became the Republic franchise with its formal opening on July 11, 1935. A number of the state rights distributors in the 1934 Mascot deal were also part of the ones signed between 1929–1932.

In 1933, Gluckman changed the name of his Capital Film Exchange, New York, to Majestic Pictures Corp. and ultimately Majestic Film Distributing Corp., reflecting his presidency of Majestic Pictures. When the company was absorbed into Republic, it became known as Republic Film Exchange, Inc.

Illustrating how some Republic exchanges had existing contracts, Majestic acquired the New York state rights franchise for a serial, “The New Adventures of Tarzan,” from Burroughs-Tarzan Enterprises, Inc. Majestic had become Republic by the time of its New York release, and fulfilled its contract by distributing the serial and its feature version under the Republic name.

Burroughs-Tarzan Enterprises had contracted 22 state rights distributors to cover the country for the serial, which also included the soon-to-be Republic exchanges in Chicago, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, St. Louis, San Francisco and Washington.

Gluckman sold his New York and Philadelphia exchanges to Republic in 1940.

Republic retained partial ownership, through its Consolidated Film Industries, of these titles (among other Mascots) until 1945.

• Young and Beautiful (9-1-1934)
• Crimson Romance (10-12-1934)
• In Old Santa Fe (11-1-1934)
• The Marines Are Coming (11-20-1934)
• Little Men (12-25-1934)
• Behind the Green Lights (3-25-1935)
• One Frightened Night (5-6-1935)
• The Headline Woman (5-15-1935)
• The Miracle Rider (5-18-1935; 15-chapter serial)
• Ladies Crave Excitement (6-22-1935)
• Harmony Lane (8-25-1935)
• The Adventures of Rex and Rinty (8-27-1935; 12-chapter serial)
• Streamline Express (9-20-1935)
• Waterfront Lady (10-5-1935)
• Confidential (10-15-1935)
• The Fighting Marines (11-23-1935; 12-chapter serial)
• Doughnuts and Society (3-20-1936)

Liberty Pictures Corp.:

(Distributed by Liberty [Hollywood Film Exchanges, Inc.] in Philadelphia, Washington by Hollywood [Hollywood Film Exchanges, Inc.], elsewhere by Republic).

Liberty Pictures completed its national distribution setup in early 1935, handling Los Angeles and San Francisco territories with their own Allied Exchanges (Allied Pictures Corp.). Both were awarded to Allied as Republic franchises in 1935, those of Monogram previously held by Co-Operative Film Exchange which promptly acquired the exchanges.

Motion Picture Daily, June 27, 1935, reported three Republic exchanges in Pittsburgh, New England and Ohio and Kentucky would handle the films “Dizzy Dames,” “Born to Gamble,” “The Old Homestead,” “Without Children,” and “Sweepstake Annie.” This was in addition to Republic exchanges serving upper and metropolitan New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania—the area covered in The Philadelphia Exhibitor—handling Liberty product.

The only other notable Liberty franchise was Monogram’s Detroit exchange which became part of Republic.

Jack Bellman’s Hollywood Film Exchanges acquired the franchise to Liberty Pictures in January 1934 for New York, Philadelphia, Buffalo and Washington. With the formation of Republic, Bellman merged his New York exchange in a combination with Herman Gluckman, owner, and became the executive manager of Republic Pictures Corp. of Greater New York and New Jersey.

So besides owning Liberty’s films, Republic also distributed a number of them in eight of their exchanges: Albany, Boston, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Pittsburgh and San Francisco.

• Cheaters (7-1-1934)
• When Strangers Meet (7-20-1934)
• Take the Stand (9-7-1934)
• Two Heads on a Pillow (10-2-1934)
• No Ransom (10-8-1934)
• Once to Every Bachelor (12-14-1934)
• Sweepstake Annie (3-1-1935)
• School for Girls (3-22-1935)
• Without Children (5-1-1935)
• Dizzy Dames (5-15-1935)
• Born to Gamble (7-10-1935)
• The Old Homestead (8-10-1935)

Majestic Pictures Corp.:

(Distributed in Philadelphia by Masterpiece [Masterpiece Film Attractions, Inc.]; in Washington by Trio [Trio Productions, Inc.], elsewhere by Republic).

Majestic was distributed by Republic in New York, Buffalo, Albany, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle.

• The Scarlet Letter (9-13-1934)
• She Had to Choose (9-18-1934)
• Night Alarm (12-15-1934)
• The Perfect Clue (1-15-1935)
• Mutiny Ahead (2-2-1935)
• Motive for Revenge (4-15-1935)
• Reckless Roads (7-1-1935)

The origins of Republic’s exchange system is shown below, all but four of the 33 branches seamlessly transitioning from Monogram.

Listed for each exchange territory is the original name of the distribution company during Monogram’s tenure. A few adopted the Monogram name, but the original company names are included instead.

Unlike Monogram, Republic had a policy where each branch had to be named after the studio and to handle its product exclusively, with the exception of short subjects. This policy took some time, as some exchanges had existing distribution agreements with other companies. Those exchanges wanting to release outside product had to get home office approval.

Monogram’s exchanges in New York and Philadelphia were owned by First Division. With the formation of Republic, Gold Medal Film Co., Philadelphia, became its distributor but First Division continued to handle Monogram there.

The founder and president of First Division—on its last legs in 1935—was Harry H. Thomas, who just happened to be a former Monogram executive.

What happened in Philadelphia, with two different exchanges in the same territory handling Monogram and Republic, did not happen elsewhere.

When Monogram was reborn in 1936, with its distribution system completed by May 1937, the company announced a policy of exchanges named after the studio to handle its product exclusively. Unlike Republic, however, in a short time the new Monogram quickly made exceptions to the latter.

With the opening of Monogram’s Minneapolis franchise in July 1931, the company announced the completion of its 33 national exchanges, the number including two in Canada, in Toronto and Montreal, run by Excellent Film Exchange.

The national setup also included an exchange in Birmingham, Alabama, owned by Arthur C. Bromberg Attractions who sold it in January 1932. And one in Butte, Montana, run by the Sheffield Exchange System, soon closed as an official Monogram branch until reopening in November 1934.

Established later were Monogram exchanges in Little Rock, Arkansas, October 1931; New Haven, Connecticut, by early 1933, and its last exchange, in Des Moines, Iowa, May 1935.

In August 1932, Regal Films, Ltd. acquired the Canadian franchise previously held by Excellent Film Exchange, extending Monogram’s branches in the Dominion from two to six. Empire Films, Ltd. acquired those rights in late 1933, which were carried over to Republic.

At the time of Republic’s formation, Monogram had 39 exchanges including those in Canada.

Memphis is included but it never had a Monogram exchange, with Arthur C. Bromberg Attractions opening a Republic franchise there in January 1936, its 34th branch in the US. The Little Rock exchange was closed in mid-1940, its territory then handled out of Memphis.

The core of Monogram’s exchange system actually goes back to the company’s precursor, Syndicate Pictures Corp., incorporated in July 1928 by Harry H. Thomas, a pioneering independent New York exchangeman. The company, however, was active by May 1928, when production began on its first film, “The Silent Trail,” part of a series of westerns starring Bob Custer, supervised by Trem Carr.

Soon helmed by the future president of Monogram, W. Ray Johnston, Syndicate created a state rights system, finalized in 1930, of 28 branches—21 of which would become Republic.

In mid-1930, Syndicate Pictures formed their New York exchange under the auspices of Bell Pictures, Inc., franchise holder for a year by then, the company renamed Syndicate Exchanges, Inc. Previous to Bell, Syndicate was distributed in New York by Harry H. Thomas’ First Division Pictures, Inc., the company—initially called Merit Film Corp.—handling W. Ray Johnston’s Rayart Pictures Corp. since its inception in 1924.

With the advent of sound, Trem Carr leased a small studio on Sunset Boulevard in May 1929, the former Stern Bros. plant, known briefly as Goldstone Studio and then National Film Recording Studio—the future home of Syndicate and Monogram.

Earlier, in March 1929, indie producer Phil Goldstone acquired a long term lease, with an option to buy, on the studio, renaming it National Film Recording Studio. Goldstone, who owned the Metropolitan Studio at Fort Lee, N.J., converted National’s larger stage, 63’ by 135’, for sound using the Biophone disc recording system.

Looking southeast from Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street towards the former Syndicate-Monogram Studio in 1939, located at the corner of Sunset and North Beachwood Drive. This was the former Stern Bros. plant, newly built for $35,000 and opened on May 31, 1919, as the Francis Ford Studio.

The original Stern plant, nearby on the other side of Gower, was destroyed by fire on August 15, 1926, when it was known as Century Studio. The Stern brothers, Julius and Abe, making shorts for Universal, then acquired the former Francis Ford Studio, the director vacating it by June 1924.

In late September 1926, while still building their new studio, the Sterns resumed limited production.

The original Stern plant was Universal’s first Hollywood studio, established in an old brewery at the corner of Sunset and Gower in October 1914, before moving to Universal City in 1915. The location of Stern’s new studio was described in 1926 as “in No. 6040 to 6048 Sunset Blvd.”

Operating under different names mostly as a rental plant, notably by Reliable Pictures Corp. which acquired a lease in 1935, bannering the studio with its name. The company, headed by Bernard B. Ray and Harry S. Webb, the latter previously producing for Syndicate, made about 40 pictures from 1934 to late 1936. Reliable even owned a ranch at Newhall for location work.

Barely visible in the photo, one can still see RELIABLE STUDIOS on the rear plant facing North Beachwood Drive, although by April 1937, with a fresh coat of paint, was officially called Sunset Studio.

At the start of 1935, Reliable Pictures was based out of the California Studio just down the street on Beachwood, the plant leased in 1935—and eventually sold—to Columbia Pictures whose lot is just out of view to the right.

The new Century Studio, when opened in 1926, was described as having “three large stages, a large water tank and is equipped with every modern appurtenance for the making of pictures.” The rear plant was not part of the original Francis Ford Studio.

When Monogram moved to the nearby Metropolitan lot in May 1933, their former plant became known as Alexander Bros. Studio, owned since 1929 by Max and Arthur Alexander who were previously with the Stern Film Corp. The two would use their M&A Alexander Productions as a distributor of films for television, their large library eventually owned by Republic Pictures.

With Monogram now gone, taking their Western Electric equipment with them, the Alexanders installed Blue Seal’s Cineglow sound recording system, avoiding the expensive royalties charged by WE and RCA. Max Alexander produced his first film at the studio, “I Can’t Escape,” in April 1934, shot in six days.

In August 1936, Maurice Conn took full control of the Reliable Studio for his own use, which he completely remodeled and equipped, though still owned by Stern Brothers Realty Corp. Also overseeing rentals, Conn helmed Ambassador Pictures, Conn Pictures and Melody Pictures, the studio now bearing his name.

Other companies such as Screencraft, Victory, Puritan, Metropolitan and Million Dollar, for example, rented the plant which, along with the International and Talisman studios, was one of the most popular used by indie producers at the time. Producers Releasing Corp. made its first film, “I Take This Oath,” at International.

Maurice Conn was bankrupt by 1938, and the former Conn Studio would then be home to Progressive Pictures Corp., the company having just made three features at the Grand National Studio, with more announced but never made. Instead, the Sunset Studio would be home to Sam Katzman’s Victory Pictures, which used the plant for interiors on eight Tim McCoy westerns.

In July 1939, Progressive moved all their executive and production staff down the street on Beachwood near the California Studio, forming Producers Pictures Corp. and Producers Distributing Corp., the forerunner of Producers Releasing Corp. PDC then used the Grand National Studio as their rental lot, starting their initial film, “Torture Ship,” in early September 1939.

Sig Neufeld was in charge of production for PDC, the producing arm known as Producers Pictures Corp. Sig and his brother, director Sam Newfield, had worked for Arthur and Max Alexander at the Century Studio in the 1920s.

Jumping ahead after PDC was reorganized as PRC in March 1940, the new company’s first nine films were made by Sigmund Neufeld Productions, Inc., whose office was based out of a studio at 1033 North Cahuenga Boulevard, headquarters of his previous outfit, Excelsior Pictures Corp.

The Sunset Studio would briefly house PRC’s offices as the company was getting its feet off the ground, setting up their exchanges and lining up other unit producers to make its product.

PRC initially listed their studio at 1033 North Cahuenga Avenue and then 6404 Hollywood Boulevard, in the Creque Building, but very little is known about the latter plant. Perhaps it was used for interiors on their first westerns. By October 1940, the company had established permanent offices in the Palmer Building on Hollywood Boulevard.

By now firmly established, PRC moved their offices from North Highland Avenue to 1440 North Gower Street in May 1942, the leased Chadwick Studio, acquired in January 1942, just down from the Columbia Drug Co. seen in the photo. PRC had first used the Chadwick plant in late 1940, just after Columbia Pictures relinquished its multi-year lease.

The offices were relocated about four months later to the Talisman Studio where most of PRC’s productions were being made, the company continuing to use the small Gower Street plant which was bannered PRC STUDIOS.

The Gower studio was previously being used by Range Busters, Inc., headed by former Monogram executive George W. Weeks who released his westerns through the company. He would move to the Cinematone Studio on Gordon Street, around the corner from Sunset Studio.

Besides leasing their studio, the Alexanders also produced under various names: Beacon Productions, Normandy Pictures, Colony Pictures, and M&A (Merrick-Alexander) Productions. The latter company, having just made two films for Select Attractions, then became a production unit for PRC, lensing their first feature for the company, “Hard Guy,” beginning on August 19, 1941.

Earlier, in mid-1940, Academic Film Co., Inc., was formed with the Alexanders in charge of making 16mm American historical two-reel shorts at their studio. Previous to “Hard Guy,” the company had produced five shorts which PRC released, all written and directed by George A. Durlam who had made a number of Syndicate westerns.

Ironically, financing PRC for most of their 1941–42 season was Herbert J. Yates’ Consolidated Film Industries, with PRC receiving a large loan in early 1941. This in return for handling the company’s laboratory work. Also involved in the deal was RCA, which advanced credit on sound equipment. Pathe Laboratories gained control of PRC in January 1942, superceding the three-year agreement with CFI.

In 1942, the Alexanders and Alfred Stern, nephew of Universal founder Carl Laemmle, formed Alexander-Stern Productions, Inc., which would make 40 pictures for PRC up until 1946. The majority were westerns, the company owning somewhat of a rarity for an independent outfit—its own sound truck for location work.

Using rented facilities since its inception, mostly the Talisman and Fine Arts studios, PRC purchased the latter—previously named the Grand National and Educational studios—on Santa Monica Boulevard in August 1943, the equipment and other appurtenances purchased from PRC’s leased Chadwick plant, as well as those from Fine Arts itself.

Columbia, needing more space, had purchased the Talisman plant which forced PRC to find an adequate studio of its own. With the purchase at a public auction, Alexander-Stern Productions moved from their Sunset Studio to the 10-acre, seven-stage PRC lot, the various producing units brought under one roof.

How many of the PRCs were made at the Sunset Studio previous to the move, however, is unknown. It was probably only a few, especially with the war creating shortages in production staff and equipment.

The Alexander brothers produced their last film in late 1948, “Amazon Quest,” at the Chaplin Studio, and then paid full attention to the burgeoning television distribution market with Alexander Productions, which also created a theatrical arm the same year. The Alexanders, however, had been distributing films to television by 1940. M&A Alexander Productions, Inc., formed in 1951, used their former studio’s offices as home base until the early 1960s.

Note that Sunset Studio is unrelated to another rental plant that opened in 1949 under the same name, located at 5545 Sunset Boulevard.

Carr’s initial work at National Studio would be his first all-talking sound film, “Handcuffed,” for Rayart. Carr then made “Bride of the Desert” there, a Rayart western, before moving to the Darmour Studio to produce for Johnston’s newly formed Continental Talking Pictures Corp.

While at Darmour, Carr began producing a series of Bob Steele westerns for Tiffany, beginning in March 1930, while continuing there to make three more features for Continental. He also went to the East Coast to make one of Syndicate’s few non-westerns, “Convict’s Code,” at the Metropolitan Studio, Fort Lee, New Jersey.

Previous to working at Darmour and National, Carr was using California Studio, Metropolitan Studio and Mack Sennett’s newly completed plant to make Rayart’s busy schedule of productions.

In June 1930, Carr returned to the National Studio to make more of Syndicate’s westerns, using Powers Cinephone recording equipment initially borrowed from Ralph Like. The company’s product would be all-talking sound films for the first time, starting with “The Lonesome Trail,” although made under the Raytone Talking Pictures Corp. banner, a subsidiary of Rayart.

Carr completed his last Bob Steele picture in January 1931, to resume later, timing with the formation of Monogram the following month, the company continuing its lease on the National Studio. He began overseeing the last of Syndicate’s productions, with Balsley and Phillips-Western Electric replacing the Cinephone equipment in early February 1931.

At the same time the two-story studio underwent renovations, which included soundproofing of the third stage and construction of projection, cutting and re-recording rooms. Balsley and Phillips also built a laboratory around the corner on Gordon Street.

The little plant, now called Monogram Pictures Studios, soon to have 60 regular employees, was being readied for the start of production in late April, initially with “Ships of Hate.” Trem Carr, Monogram’s vice-president for production, would have direct supervision of all activities on the West Coast, with two stages dedicated to production, encompassing 18,000 square feet.

After the completion of “Ships of Hate” at Monogram, Carr resumed Tiffany’s Bob Steele westerns at Darmour, in May 1931, churning out eight more oaters for his Trem Carr Pictures, Ltd., the last film completed in July 1932. Steele would then begin work on eight westerns under contract to Monogram.

Continental Talking Pictures made three more features after Monogram was formed: “Defenders of the Law,” “The Mystery Train” and “Air Eagles,” all produced in 1931, in that order, by Larry Darmour at his small studio. Although uncredited, “Air Eagles” was produced by Big Productions Film Corp., co-founded in 1914 by W. Ray Johnston, the company also producing eight Syndicate westerns starring Bob Steele.

The last release of Syndicate Pictures was “Law of the Rio Grande” on July 20, 1931, starring Bob Custer, produced by Webb-Douglas Productions with interiors at Monogram although the company, which had made other Syndicate westerns, was based earlier at Ralph Like’s Cinephone Studio—purchased by the new Monogram in 1942 when it was called International Studio.

Subsequent releases by Syndicate Exchanges after “Law of the Rio Grande” were unrelated to Syndicate Pictures. The former continued to use the name as a state rights distributor until 1941, when it acquired PRC’s New York franchise, the exchange’s product unrelated to its former namesake.

Monogram’s exchanges were independently owned and operated, each franchise holder required to own stock in the company and pay a pro rata share of each film’s cost.

When Monogram was revived in 1937, W. Ray Johnston, former Republic Pictures president, acquired the outstanding stock—about 45 per cent—of Monogram Pictures Corp. that was still owned largely by franchise holders who transitioned to Republic in 1935. Along with the stock owned by Johnston, Monogram was reborn which included most of its original film library.

Trem Carr left Republic in January 1936, Nat Levine purchasing Carr’s 50 per cent interest in Republic Pictures Corp., the distributing unit, and Republic Productions, Inc., the producing unit, reportedly for $500,000. Carr would then produce for Universal.

In October 1937, Carr, a substantial shareholder, was elected a member of the new Monogram’s board of directors, and in 1941 was once again head of production at the studio.

For its 1930–1931 season, Syndicate also offered 18 Walt Disney Alice comedies, a combination of live action and cartoons, first released in 1925–1926; and 12 two-reel westerns starring Jack Hoxie, culled from features first released in the early 1920s by Arrow Film Corp., W. Ray Johnston the company’s vice-president until 1924, when he organized Rayart Pictures. All the shorts were synchronized with new sound.

Dallas and Oklahoma City, prime territories for Syndicate’s westerns, were operated as separate entities by Syndicate and Monogram yet shared the same managers when the latter was organized.

By the end of 1941, Republic owned 23 of its 33 domestic exchanges, most if not all acquired between 1939–1941. The company continued to purchase more, finalizing its ownership of all franchises by acquiring Sheffield’s multiple units in 1946.

By April 1958, Republic had sold 19 of its 32 company-owned exchanges (Butte, Montana, was closed by then), with more to follow as distribution was farmed out to state righters, the company returning briefly to its franchised origins:

Buffalo-Albany, Waldman Films; Atlanta and Jacksonville, Capitol Releasing; Boston, Embassy Pictures; Charlotte, American-Astor Distributing Co.; Chicago, Linro, Inc.; Cincinnati, Screen Classics; Cleveland, Imperial Pictures; Dallas, Empire Pictures Distributing Co. (a subsidiary of General Films Distributing Co.); Denver, Apex Films (American International Pictures of Colorado); Des Moines, Realart Pictures of Iowa and Nebraska; Detroit, Allied Film Exchange; Indianapolis, Howco Film Exchange; Kansas City, United Film Exchange; Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Portland-Seattle, Favorite Films of California; Memphis, Colonial Pictures; Milwaukee and Minneapolis, Independent Film Distributors; New Orleans, Howco Pictures of Louisiana; New York, Realart Film Exchange of N.Y.; Philadelphia, American International Pictures; Pittsburgh, Screen Guild Productions of Pittsburgh; St. Louis, Realart Pictures of St. Louis; Salt Lake City, R.T. Pictures; Washington, American International Pictures Exchange of Washington.

Monogram exchanges 1931–1935, which became Republic unless noted. An asterix denotes a franchise of Syndicate Pictures Corp. in late 1930.

Year of production shown; C=Trucolor; N=Naturama, Republic’s 2.35:1 widescreen format