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Republic Pictures (also known as Republic Entertainment, Inc.) is an in-name only independent film, television, and video distribution company that was originally a movie production-distribution corporation with studio facilities, best known for its specialization in quality B pictures, westerns
Western (genre)

The Western is a fiction genre seen in film, television, radio, literature, painting and other visual arts. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in what became the Western United States , but also in Western Canada, Mexico , Alaska and even Australia ....
 and movie serial
Serial (film)

|}Serials, more specifically known as Movie serials or Film serials, were short subjects originally shown in theaters in conjunction with a feature film that were related to pulp magazine Serial ....
s. Now, Republic films released on iTunes from Paramount.

They were also responsible for one notable Shakespeare film, Orson Welles' Macbeth
Macbeth (1948 film)

Macbeth is a Cinema of the United States film adaptation by Orson Welles of William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth....
.

ted in 1935 by Herbert J. Yates
Herbert Yates

Herbert John Yates was the founder and president of Republic Pictures, famous for being the home of John Wayne, Gene Autry, and Roy Rogers. Under Yates' leadership between 1935 and 1959, Republic made 956 feature films and 849 serial chapters, many of which are classics enjoyed today on television and DVD by a whole new generation of appreci...
, a longtime investor in film and music properties and founder and president of Consolidated Film Industries
Consolidated Film Industries

Consolidated Film Industries was a film laboratory, and film processing company, and was the leading film laboratory in the Los Angeles area for many decades....
, Republic was the result of a union of six smaller Poverty Row
Poverty Row

Poverty Row is a slang term used in Hollywood from the late silent period through the mid-fifties to refer to a variety of small and mostly short-lived B movie Movie studio....
 studios.

In the depths of the 1930s depression, Yates's laboratory was servicing many poverty-row studios.






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Republic Pictures (also known as Republic Entertainment, Inc.) is an in-name only independent film, television, and video distribution company that was originally a movie production-distribution corporation with studio facilities, best known for its specialization in quality B pictures, westerns
Western (genre)

The Western is a fiction genre seen in film, television, radio, literature, painting and other visual arts. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in what became the Western United States , but also in Western Canada, Mexico , Alaska and even Australia ....
 and movie serial
Serial (film)

|}Serials, more specifically known as Movie serials or Film serials, were short subjects originally shown in theaters in conjunction with a feature film that were related to pulp magazine Serial ....
s. Now, Republic films released on iTunes from Paramount.

They were also responsible for one notable Shakespeare film, Orson Welles' Macbeth
Macbeth (1948 film)

Macbeth is a Cinema of the United States film adaptation by Orson Welles of William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth....
.

Corporate History

Adventures of Captain Marvel
Created in 1935 by Herbert J. Yates
Herbert Yates

Herbert John Yates was the founder and president of Republic Pictures, famous for being the home of John Wayne, Gene Autry, and Roy Rogers. Under Yates' leadership between 1935 and 1959, Republic made 956 feature films and 849 serial chapters, many of which are classics enjoyed today on television and DVD by a whole new generation of appreci...
, a longtime investor in film and music properties and founder and president of Consolidated Film Industries
Consolidated Film Industries

Consolidated Film Industries was a film laboratory, and film processing company, and was the leading film laboratory in the Los Angeles area for many decades....
, Republic was the result of a union of six smaller Poverty Row
Poverty Row

Poverty Row is a slang term used in Hollywood from the late silent period through the mid-fifties to refer to a variety of small and mostly short-lived B movie Movie studio....
 studios.

In the depths of the 1930s depression, Yates's laboratory was servicing many poverty-row studios. In 1935 Yates saw a chance to become a production head himself. Six established poverty-row companies (Monogram, Mascot, Liberty, Majestic, Chesterfield, and Invincible) were all dependent on Yates's lab. Yates prevailed upon his clients to merge under his leadership (or otherwise face foreclosure on outstanding lab bills). Yates's new company, Republic Pictures Corporation, was established as a collaborative enterprise focused on low-budget product.

The largest of Republic's components was Monogram Pictures
Monogram Pictures

Monogram Pictures Corporation was a Hollywood studio that produced and released films, most on low budgets, between 1931 and 1953, when the firm completed a transition to the name Allied Artists Pictures Corporation....
, run by Trem Carr and W. Ray Johnston, specializing in "B" films, and controlling a nation-wide distribution system. The most advanced technically was Nat Levine
Nat Levine

Nat Levine , was an American film producer. He produced 105 films between 1921 in film and 1946 in film. He was personal secretary to Marcus Loew, formed Mascot Pictures in 1927, and merged Mascot with Herbert Yates's Republic Pictures in 1935....
's Mascot Pictures Corporation
Mascot Pictures Corporation

The Mascot Pictures Corporation was a minor film company of the 1920s and 1930s best known for producing film serials and Western . Mascot's serial The King of the Kongo was the first serial to include Sound film, beating Universal Studios by several months....
, which had been making serials almost exclusively since the mid-1920s and had a first-class production facility, the former Mack Sennett-Keystone lot in Studio City. Mascot also had just discovered Gene Autry and signed him to a contract as a singing cowboy star. Larry Darmour's Majestic Pictures had developed a following, with big-name stars and rented sets giving his humble productions a polished look. Republic took its original "Liberty Bell" logo from M. H. Hoffman's Liberty Films (not to be confused with Frank Capra
Frank Capra

'Frank Russell Capra' was an Italian-American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It's a Wonderful Life and Mr....
's short-lived Liberty Films
Liberty Films

Liberty Films was an independent motion picture production company founded in California by Frank Capra and Samuel J. Briskin in April 1945. It produced only two films, It's a Wonderful Life , originally released by RKO Pictures, and the film version of the hit play State of the Union , originally released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer....
 that produced his It's a Wonderful Life
It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life is an United States film produced and directed by Frank Capra and loosely based on the short story "The Greatest Gift " written by Philip Van Doren Stern....
, ironically now owned by Republic), Chesterfield Pictures and Invincible Pictures, two sister companies under the same ownership, were skilled in producing low budget melodramas and mysteries. Acquiring these six companies allowed Republic to begin life with a skilled production staff, a company of experienced B-film supporting players and at least one highly promising star, a complete distribution system, and a functioning studio. In exchange for merging, the principals were promised independence in their productions under the Republic aegis, and higher budgets with which to improve the quality of the films.

After he had "learned the ropes" of film production and distribution from his partners, Yates began asserting more and more authority over "their" film departments, and dissension arose in the ranks. Carr and Johnston left and reactivated Monogram Pictures; Darmour resumed independent production for Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an United States film production company and distribution company. It was one of the so-called studio system among the eight major film studios of Hollywood Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood....
; Levine left and never recovered from the loss of his studio, staff, and stars, all of whom now were contracted to Republic and Yates. Freed of partners, Yates presided over what was now "his" film studio and acquiring senior production and management staff who would serve him as employees, not experienced peers with independent ideas and agendas.

Republic also acquired Brunswick Records
Brunswick Records

Brunswick Records is a United States based record label. The label is currently distributed by Koch Entertainment....
 to record their singing cowboys Gene Autry
Gene Autry

Orvon Gene Autry was an United States performing arts who gained fame as "Singing cowboy" on the Radio in the United States, in Cinema of the United States and on Television in the United States for more than three decades beginning in the 1930s....
 and Roy Rogers
Roy Rogers

Roy Rogers , was a singer and cowboy actor, as well as the founder of the famous Roy Rogers Restaurants chain. He and his third wife Dale Evans, his golden palomino Trigger , and his German Shepherd Dog, Bullet, were featured in over one hundred movies and The Roy Rogers Show....
 and hired Cy Feuer
Cy Feuer

Cy Feuer was a Tony Award-winning United States theatrical producer, theatre director, composer, and musician.Born Seymour Arnold Feuerman in Brooklyn, New York, he became a professional trumpeter at the age of fifteen, working at clubs on weekends to help support his family while attending New Utrecht High School....
 as head of their music department.

Types of films

In its early years Republic was itself sometimes labeled a "poverty row" company as its primary product were B movies and serials
Serial (film)

|}Serials, more specifically known as Movie serials or Film serials, were short subjects originally shown in theaters in conjunction with a feature film that were related to pulp magazine Serial ....
. Republic, however, showed more interest in, and provided larger budgets to, these films than many of the larger studios were doing, and certainly more than other independents were able to. The heart of the company was its B-westerns, and many western-film leads, among them John Wayne
John Wayne

John Wayne was an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning United States film actor. He epitomized rugged masculinity and has become an enduring American icon....
, Gene Autry
Gene Autry

Orvon Gene Autry was an United States performing arts who gained fame as "Singing cowboy" on the Radio in the United States, in Cinema of the United States and on Television in the United States for more than three decades beginning in the 1930s....
, Rex Allen
Rex Allen

Rex Allen was an United States actor, singer, and songwriter who is particularly known as the narrator in many Walt Disney nature and Western productions....
, and Roy Rogers
Roy Rogers

Roy Rogers , was a singer and cowboy actor, as well as the founder of the famous Roy Rogers Restaurants chain. He and his third wife Dale Evans, his golden palomino Trigger , and his German Shepherd Dog, Bullet, were featured in over one hundred movies and The Roy Rogers Show....
, became recognizable stars at Republic. However, by the mid-1940s Yates was producing better-quality pictures, even mounting big-budget fare like The Quiet Man
The Quiet Man

The Quiet Man is a United States Romantic film drama film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen and Barry Fitzgerald....
, Sands of Iwo Jima
Sands of Iwo Jima

Sands of Iwo Jima is a 1949 in film war film which follows a group of United States Marine Corps from training to the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II....
, Johnny Guitar
Johnny Guitar

Johnny Guitar is a Republic Pictures feature film starring Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, and Scott Brady in an Old West tale about an Arizona cattle community facing unwanted social and economic changes and a newcomer who challenges the community's dictatorial leaders....
, and The Maverick Queen

From the mid-1940s, Republic films often featured Vera Hruba Ralston
Vera Ralston

File:The Fighting Kentuckian Vera Ralston.jpgVera Ralston was a Czechs figure skater and actress. She later became a naturalized United States citizen....
, a former Czechoslovakian ice-skater who had won the heart of the studio boss, becoming the second Mrs. Yates in 1949. She was originally featured in musicals as Republic's answer to Sonja Henie
Sonja Henie

Sonja Henie was a Norway figure skating and actress. She is a three-time List of Olympic medalists in figure skating , a ten-time World Figure Skating Championships and a six-time European Figure Skating Championships ....
, but Yates tried to build her up as a dramatic star, casting her in leading roles opposite important male stars. Yates billed her as "the most beautiful woman in films," but her charms were lost on the moviegoing public, and exhibitors complained that Republic was making too many Ralston pictures. Years later, John Wayne allowed that the reason he left Republic in 1952 was the threat of having to make another picture - he had endured two - with Miss Ralston. Yates remained Ralston's biggest supporter, and she continued to appear in Republic features until its very last production.

Although Republic made most of its films in black and white, it occasionally would produce a higher-budget film, such as The Red Pony
The Red Pony

"The Red Pony" is a novella written by United States author John Steinbeck in 1933 in literature. The stories in the book are tales of Steinbeck's childhood recounted by a ten-year-old boy named Jody Tiflin....
 (1949) and The Quiet Man
The Quiet Man

The Quiet Man is a United States Romantic film drama film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen and Barry Fitzgerald....
 (1952) in Technicolor
Technicolor

Technicolor is the trademark for a series of Color film processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation , now a division of Thomson SA....
. During the late 1940s and 1950s, Yates utilized a low-cost Cinecolor
Cinecolor

Cinecolor was an early subtractive color-model RG color space film process, based upon the Prizma system of the 1910s and 1920s and the Multicolor system of the late 1920s and 1930s....
 process called Trucolor
Trucolor

Trucolor was a process used and owned by Consolidated Film Industries division of Republic Pictures. Trucolor was a two-strip process based on the earlier work of William Van Doren Kelley's Prizma color process....
 in many of his films, notably Johnny Guitar
Johnny Guitar

Johnny Guitar is a Republic Pictures feature film starring Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, and Scott Brady in an Old West tale about an Arizona cattle community facing unwanted social and economic changes and a newcomer who challenges the community's dictatorial leaders....
 (1954), The Last Command
The Last Command (1955 film)

The Last Command is a 1955 Trucolor film about Jim Bowie and the fall of the Alamo. Filmed by Republic Pictures, it was an unusually expensive undertaking for the low-budget studio....
, and Magic Fire
Magic Fire

Magic Fire is a biographical film about the life of composer Richard Wagner, released in the United States on March 29, 1956 by Republic Pictures....
 (1956).

Republic produced many "hillbilly
Hillbilly

Hillbilly is a term referring to people who dwell in rural, mountainous areas of the United States, primarily Appalachia and the Ozarks. Due to its strongly Stereotype connotations, the term is frequently considered derogatory, and so is usually offensive to those United States of Ozarkan and Appalachian heritage....
" and rural musicals and comedies featuring Bob Burns, the Weaver Brothers, and Judy Canova
Judy Canova

Judy Canova was an United States comedienne, actress, singer and radio personality. She was sometimes introduced as the Ozark Nightingale....
 that were popular in various areas of the United States.

With production costs increasing, Yates organised Republic's output into four types of films, "Jubilee" usually a Western filmed in seven days for about $50,000, "Anniversary" filmed in fourteen to fifteen days for $175,000 to $200,000, "Deluxe" that were major films made by Republic's crew for a budget of around $500,000 and "Premiere" that featured major directors who did not usually work for Republic that could feature a budget of a million dollars. Some of these were from independent production companies that were picked up for release by Republic.

In the television era

Republic was one of the first Hollywood studios to offer its film library to television. In 1951 Republic established a subsidiary, Hollywood Television Service, to sell screening rights in its vintage westerns and action thrillers. Hollywood Television Service also produced television shows filmed in the same style as Republic's serials such as The Adventures of Fu Manchu
The Adventures of Fu Manchu

The Adventures of Fu Manchu was a 1956 American television series.From September 3, 1956 till November 26, 1956, Hollywood Television Service, a subsidiary of Republic Pictures produced a 13-episode syndicated programme, The Adventures of Fu Manchu....
 (1956). Also, in 1952 the Republic studio lot became the first home of MCA
Music Corporation of America

MCA, Inc. was an United States corporation in the music and television businesses. MCA published music, booked acts, ran a record company, and distributed television productions and home videos....
's series factory, Revue Productions
NBC Universal Television

NBC Universal Television Group is an American and global television production/distribution company and a subsidiary of NBC Universal.The company is comprised of five divisions: Universal Media Studios , NBC Universal Television Stations, NBC Universal Television Distribution, NBC Universal International Television a...
. While it would appear that Republic was well suited for television-series production, it did not have the finances or vision to do so. Yet by the mid-fifties, thanks to its sale of old features and leasing of studio space to MCA, television was the prop holding up Republic Pictures. During this period, Republic produced Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe
Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe

Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe is a science fiction television series or Serial . It consists of twelve 25-minute episodes. The series was filmed and intended to be broadcast as a television limited series but, due to contract restrictions, it was originally released in theaters as a serial....
; unsuccessful as a theater release, the 12-part serial was later sold to NBC for television distribution. Talent-agent MCA exerted influence at the studio, bringing some high-paid clients in for occasional features, and it was rumored at various times that either MCA or deposed MGM head Louis B. Mayer would buy the studio outright.

As the demand and market for B-pictures declined, Republic began to cut back, slowing production from 40 features annually in the early 1950s to 18 in 1957. A tearful Herbert Yates informed shareholders at the 1958 annual meeting that feature-film production was ending; the distribution offices were shut down the following year. In the early 1960s, Republic sold its library of films to National Telefilm Associates
National Telefilm Associates

National Telefilm Associates was an independent distribution company that handled reissues of USA film libraries, including much of Paramount Pictures' animated and short-subjects library....
 (NTA). Having used the studio for series production for years, CBS
CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
 bought Republic's studio lot; today it is known as CBS Studio Center
CBS Studio Center

CBS Studio Center is a television and film studio located in the Studio City district of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley. It is located at 4024 Radford Avenue and takes up a triangular piece of land, with the Los Angeles River bisecting the site....
, and in 2006 became home to the network's Los Angeles stations, KCBS-TV
KCBS-TV

KCBS-TV is the owned and operated station station of the CBS Television Network located in Los Angeles, California. KCBS-TV shares its offices and studio facilities with sister station KCAL-TV inside CBS Studio Center in the Studio City, Los Angeles, California section of Los Angeles, and its transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson ....
 and KCAL-TV
KCAL-TV

KCAL-TV channel 9 is an independent station in Los Angeles, California, owned by the CBS Corporation. KCAL-TV shares its studio facilities with KCBS-TV inside CBS Studio Center in the Studio City, Los Angeles, California section of Los Angeles, and its transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson ....
. In 2008, the CBS Network relocated from its Hollywood Television City Location to the Radford lot. All network executives now reside on the lot.

The studio's parent company, Republic Corporation, survived for some years on Yates's other interests, among them Consolidated Film Laboratories and the manufacture of household appliances. Other than producing a 1966 package of 26 "Century 66" 100 minute made-for-TV movies edited from some of the Republic serials to cash in on the popularity of the Batman
Batman (TV series)

Batman is a 1960s United States television series, based on the DC Comics comic book Batman. It aired on the American Broadcasting Company network for two and a half seasons from January 12, 1966 in television to March 14, 1968 in television....
 television series, its role in Hollywood ended with the sale of the studio lot.

Aftermath

During the early 1980s, NTA re-syndicated most of the Republic film library for use by then-emerging cable television, and by 1986 found itself so successful with these product lines that it bought the Republic Pictures name and logo. A television-production unit was set up under the Republic name, and offered, among other things, the CBS series Beauty and the Beast and game show Press Your Luck
Press Your Luck

Press Your Luck was an American television daytime game show that ran weekdays on CBS from September 19, 1983 to September 26, 1986, where contestants collected "spins" by answering trivia questions, and then used the spins on an 18-space game board full of cash and prizes....
 (the rights to the latter series have since reverted to FremantleMedia
FremantleMedia

FremantleMedia, Ltd. is the content and production division of RTL Group, Europe's largest TV, radio, and production company. Its world headquarters are located in London, United Kingdom....
). There were also a few theatrical films, including Freeway, Ruby in Paradise
Ruby in Paradise

Ruby in Paradise is a 1993 in film written, directed, and edited by Victor Nu?ez, and starring Ashley Judd, Todd Field, Bentley Mitchum, Allison Dean, and Dorothy Lyman....
, and Bound
Bound (film)

Bound is a 1996 neo-noir crime film thriller film directed by the Wachowski Brothers. It is about a woman who longs to escape her relationship with her Mafia boyfriend ....
. The "new" Republic also began marketing the original's serial library on videotape.

Bought by Aaron Spelling's Spelling Entertainment, Republic won a landmark legal decision reactivating the copyright on Frank Capra
Frank Capra

'Frank Russell Capra' was an Italian-American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It's a Wonderful Life and Mr....
's 1946 RKO film It's a Wonderful Life
It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life is an United States film produced and directed by Frank Capra and loosely based on the short story "The Greatest Gift " written by Philip Van Doren Stern....
; (under NTA, they had already acquired the film's negative, music score, and the story on which it was based, "The Greatest Gift").

Soon after, Spelling consolidated its many divisions, reducing Republic Pictures to a marketing brand-name. Republic's video division shut down in 1995, allowing the video rights to the Republic library to be leased to Artisan Entertainment
Artisan Entertainment

Artisan Entertainment was a privately held independent film United States movie studio until it was purchased by Lionsgate in 2003. At the time of its acquisition Artisan had a library of thousands of films developed through acquisition, original production, and production and distribution agreements....
, while the library itself continued to be released under the Republic name and logo. By the end of the decade, Viacom
Viacom

Viacom , short for "Video & Audio Communications", is an United States media conglomerate with various worldwide interests in cable television and satellite television networks , and movie production and distribution ....
 bought the portion of Spelling it did not own previously, thus Republic became a wholly owned division of Paramount
Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production company and distribution company, located on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, California....
. Artisan (later sold to Lions Gate Home Entertainment) continued to use the Republic name, logo, and library under license from Paramount.

Republic Pictures' holdings consists of a catalog of 3,000 films and TV series, including the original Republic library (except for the Roy Rogers and Gene Autry catalogs, owned by their respective estates), and the holdings of Worldvision Enterprises, which includes in its library the pre-1973 NBC catalog (including Bonanza
Bonanza

Bonanza is an United States television series that ran on NBC from September 12, 1959 to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons, it is among the longest running Western television series and continues to air in syndication....
 and Little House on the Prairie
Little House on the Prairie (TV series)

Little House on the Prairie is an United States one-hour dramatic television program that aired on the NBC network from September 11, 1974, to March 21, 1983, bumping the long-running Adam-12 series to Tuesday nights....
, the latter premiering in 1974), most of the Quinn Martin
Quinn Martin

Quinn Martin , born Irwin Martin Cohn, was one of the most successful American television producers. He had at least one program running in prime time for 21 straight years , an industry record....
 (The Fugitive
The Fugitive (TV series)

The Fugitive is an United States television series produced by Quinn Martin and United Artists Television that aired on American Broadcasting Corporation from 1963-1967....
, The Streets of San Francisco
The Streets of San Francisco

The Streets of San Francisco is a 1970s television police drama filmed on location in San Francisco, California, USA, and produced by Quinn Martin, with the first season produced in association with Warner Bros....
, etc.), select pre-1952 UA (High Noon
High Noon

High Noon is an Cinema of the United States 1952 in film western film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly. The film tells the story of a town marshal who is forced to face a gang of killers by himself....
, Copacabana
Copacabana

Copacabana is a borough located in the southern zone of the city Rio de Janeiro, known for its 4 km beach which is one of the most famous of the world....
, etc.) and NTA holdings (Fleischer cartoons, It's a Wonderful Life, etc.), and the international rights to the 1982 horror anthology Creepshow
Creepshow

Creepshow is an American horror-comedy anthology film directed by George A. Romero , and written by Stephen King .It was considered a sleeper hit at the box office when released in November 1982 in film, earning over $21 million domestically, and remains a popular film to this day among horror genre fans....
 (owned domestically by Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. is one of the world's largest film producer of film and television.It is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank, California and New York City....
 Pictures).

Today, as a result of the Viacom/CBS corporate split of 2006, Republic's holdings are divided. As is the case with the Paramount film libraries, CBS Paramount Television
CBS Paramount Television

CBS Paramount Television is an United States television Film production/Film distributor company that was formed on January 17, 2006 by CBS Corporation merging Paramount Television and CBS Productions....
 owns Republic's television output, while the theatrical side is owned by Viacom's Paramount Pictures.

Lions Gate Home Entertainment's home video rights initially expired in late 2005, but have since regained video rights to Republic's theatrical film library (except It's a Wonderful Life--the video rights to that and several other films, as well as Republic's TV library now are with Paramount Home Entertainment, with the TV shows released through the CBS DVD label). Television distribution is now the responsibility of CBS Television Distribution
CBS Television Distribution

CBS Television Distribution is a global television distribution company, a merger of CBS Corporation's three television distribution arms CBS Paramount Domestic Television, CBS Paramount International Television, and King World Productions including its home entertainment arm CBS Home Entertainment....
.

As of 2008, Republic remains an in-name-only distribution company under Paramount Motion Pictures Group, a division of Viacom.

Outside the US, video rights to the Republic film library are divided. For example, Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Universal Studios Home Entertainment

Universal Studios Home Entertainment is a home video company founded in 1978 as MCA DiscoVision. The company is owned NBC Universal, the entertainment division of General Electric and Vivendi....
 owns the UK rights, and Paramount themselves handles distribution in Latin America and Australia.

By 2010, Republic Pictures will celebrate its 75th Anniversary.

Notable Republic Pictures


1930s and 1940s

  • (1938)
  • Melody Ranch
    Melody Ranch

    Melody Ranch is a 1940 in film western film which tells the story of a singing cowboy who returns to his hometown to restore order when his former childhood enemies take over the town....
     (1939)
  • Dark Command
    Dark Command

    Dark Command is a 1940 in film western film loosely based on Quantrill's Raiders in the American American Civil War. Directed by Raoul Walsh from the novel by W.R....
     (1940)
  • Ice Capades
    Ice Capades

    The Ice Capades was a traveling entertainment show featuring theatrical performances involving ice skating.Ice Capades was founded in 1940 in Hershey, Pennsylvania by John H....
     (1941, the debut of Vera Hruba)
  • Flame of Barbary Coast
    Flame of Barbary Coast

    Flame of Barbary Coast is a 1945 in film western film starring John Wayne, Ann Dvorak, Joseph Schildkraut, William Frawley, and Virginia Grey....
     (1945)
  • Angel and the Badman
    Angel and the Badman

    Angel and the Badman is a 1947 black and white Western film, starring John Wayne and Gail Russell, which examines the ability of a shootist to renounce violence....
     (1947)
  • Macbeth (1948), directed by and starring Orson Welles
    Orson Welles

    George Orson Welles , better known as Orson Welles, was an Academy Award-winning United States actor, director, writer and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television, and radio....
  • Wake of the Red Witch
    Wake of the Red Witch

    Wake of the Red Witch is a 1948 in film drama film starring John Wayne and Gail Russell, directed by Edward Ludwig. The movie is one of only nine films in which Wayne's character dies....
     (1948)
  • The Fighting Kentuckian
    The Fighting Kentuckian

    The Fighting Kentuckian is a 1949 in film American comedy action film starring John Wayne and Oliver Hardy. The movie was written and directed by George Waggner and made by Republic Pictures....
     (1949)
  • Sands of Iwo Jima
    Sands of Iwo Jima

    Sands of Iwo Jima is a 1949 in film war film which follows a group of United States Marine Corps from training to the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II....
     (1949)
  • The Red Pony
    The Red Pony

    "The Red Pony" is a novella written by United States author John Steinbeck in 1933 in literature. The stories in the book are tales of Steinbeck's childhood recounted by a ten-year-old boy named Jody Tiflin....
     (1949)


1950s

  • Rio Grande
    Rio Grande (film)

    Rio Grande is a 1950 in film western film and the third installment of John Ford's "cavalry trilogy", following two RKO Pictures releases: Fort Apache and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon ....
     (1950)
  • (1951)
  • I Dream of Jeanie
    I Dream of Jeanie

    I Dream of Jeanie is a 1952 film that is a remake of the 1939 version of Swanee River .External links ...
     (1952)
  • The Quiet Man
    The Quiet Man

    The Quiet Man is a United States Romantic film drama film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen and Barry Fitzgerald....
     (1952)
  • Johnny Guitar
    Johnny Guitar

    Johnny Guitar is a Republic Pictures feature film starring Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, and Scott Brady in an Old West tale about an Arizona cattle community facing unwanted social and economic changes and a newcomer who challenges the community's dictatorial leaders....
     (1954)
  • The Last Command
    The Last Command (1955 film)

    The Last Command is a 1955 Trucolor film about Jim Bowie and the fall of the Alamo. Filmed by Republic Pictures, it was an unusually expensive undertaking for the low-budget studio....
     (1955)
  • Track the Man Down
    Track the Man Down

    Track the Man Down is a 1955 in film Great Britain drama film written by Paul Erickson and directed by R.G. Springsteen.The melodramatic crime caper centers on a robbery at a greyhound racetrack that results in the unintentional murder of a guard....
     (1955)
  • (1956)


1970s

  • Halloween
    Halloween

    Halloween is a holiday celebrated on October 31. It has roots in the Celtic mythology of Samhain and the Christian holy day of All Saints. It is largely a Secularity celebration, but some Christians and Paganism have expressed strong feelings about its religious overtones....
     (1978), co-production with Turner Entertainment Co. & distribution with MGM and New World Pictures


1980s

  • Halloween II
    Halloween II

    Halloween II is a 1981 in film horror film and the sequel to the influential film Halloween . Directed by Rick Rosenthal, the film stars Donald Pleasence as Samuel J....
     (1981), distribution with MCA/Universal
  • Halloween III: Season of the Witch
    Halloween III: Season of the Witch

    Halloween III: Season of the Witch is a 1982 in film horror film and the third installment in the Halloween . The film was intended to begin Halloween as an Anthology series, releasing a new Halloween storyline every year....
     (1982), distribution with MCA/Universal
  • Cujo
    Cujo

    Cujo is a horror novel by Stephen King, published by Viking in 1981. The book tells the story of the middle-class Trenton family and rural Camber clan in Castle Rock ....
     (1983), distribution with Warner Bros. Pictures
  • Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
    Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

    Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers is a 1988 in film independently-released horror film and the fourth installment in the Halloween movie series....
     (1988), distribution with New World Pictures
  • Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
    Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers

    Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers is the 1989 sequel to the popular horror film, Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers. It was directed by Dominique Othenin-Girard and starred Donald Pleasence, who again portrayed Dr....
     (1989), distribution with New World Pictures


1990s

  • Halloween: Howling to Finish (1991), distribution with New World Pictures
  • Highlander II: The Quickening
    Highlander II: The Quickening

    Highlander II: The Quickening is the second installment to the Highlander , released on November 1, 1991 in film by Interstar....
     (1991)
  • Ruby in Paradise
    Ruby in Paradise

    Ruby in Paradise is a 1993 in film written, directed, and edited by Victor Nu?ez, and starring Ashley Judd, Todd Field, Bentley Mitchum, Allison Dean, and Dorothy Lyman....
     (1993)
  • Night of the Scarecrow (1994)
  • The Stand
    The Stand

    The Stand is a post-apocalyptic horror fiction/science fiction novel by Stephen King originally published in 1978. It re-works the scenario in King?s earlier short story, "Night Surf" ....
     (1994)
  • Cow & Chicken (1995), co-production with Hanna-Barbera
    Hanna-Barbera

    Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. , was an American List of animation studios that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century....
  • Dexter's Laboratory
    Dexter's Laboratory

    Dexter's Laboratory is an Annie Award-winning American list of animated television series created by Genndy Tartakovsky about a boy genius named Dexter, who has a secret laboratory hidden behind a bookshelf in his bedroom....
     (1995), co-production with Hanna-Barbera
    Hanna-Barbera

    Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. , was an American List of animation studios that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century....
  • Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995), distribution with Dimension Films
    Dimension Films

    Dimension Films is a motion picture unit currently a part of The Weinstein Company. It was formerly used as Bob Weinstein's label within Miramax Films, to produce and release genre films....
  • Johnny Bravo
    Johnny Bravo

    Johnny Bravo is an American List of animated television series created by Van Partible. It premiered on July 7, 1997 on Cartoon Network and ran for 65 episodes and 4 seasons....
     (1995), co-production with Hanna-Barbera
    Hanna-Barbera

    Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. , was an American List of animation studios that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century....
  • The Langoliers
    The Langoliers

    The Langoliers is one of four novellas published in the Stephen King book Four Past Midnight in 1990 in literature....
     (1995)
  • Powerpuff Girls! (1995), co-production with Hanna-Barbera
    Hanna-Barbera

    Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. , was an American List of animation studios that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century....
  • (1995)
  • Bound
    Bound (film)

    Bound is a 1996 neo-noir crime film thriller film directed by the Wachowski Brothers. It is about a woman who longs to escape her relationship with her Mafia boyfriend ....
     (1996)
  • Freeway (1996)
  • Halloween: Return of Nature's Fury (1996), distribution with New World Pictures
  • Thinner
    Thinner

    Thinner may mean:*Paint thinner, a solvent used in painting and decorating, for thinning oil based paint and cleaning brushes.*Thinner , a 1984 horror novel by Stephen King, written as Richard Bachman...
     (1996), distribution with Paramount
    Paramount

    Paramount may refer to:In companies:*Paramount Motion Pictures Group, a motion picture holding company owned by Viacom*Paramount Pictures Corporation, a Worldwide American motion picture company...
  • Halloween: H20 (1998), distribution with Dimension Films
    Dimension Films

    Dimension Films is a motion picture unit currently a part of The Weinstein Company. It was formerly used as Bob Weinstein's label within Miramax Films, to produce and release genre films....
  • Halloween: Revenge of Nature's Fury (1999), distribution with New World Pictures
  • The Jungle Book
    The Jungle Book

    The Jungle Book is a collection of stories written by Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893–4. The original publications contained illustrations, some by Rudyard's father, John Lockwood Kipling....
     (1999), co-production with Warner Bros. Pictures


2000s

  • Halloween: The Undiscovered Country (2001), distribution with New World Pictures
  • Halloween: Resurrection
    Halloween: Resurrection

    Halloween: Resurrection is a 2002 in film horror film and the eighth installment in the Halloween film series. film director by Rick Rosenthal, who had also directed Halloween II, the film builds upon the continuity of Halloween H20: 20 Years Later....
     (2002), distribution with Dimension Films
    Dimension Films

    Dimension Films is a motion picture unit currently a part of The Weinstein Company. It was formerly used as Bob Weinstein's label within Miramax Films, to produce and release genre films....
  • Terminator: Dawn of Fate (2002), co-production with Dimension Films
    Dimension Films

    Dimension Films is a motion picture unit currently a part of The Weinstein Company. It was formerly used as Bob Weinstein's label within Miramax Films, to produce and release genre films....
     and Marvel Entertainment Group
  • Halloween: Trail to Madness (2003), distribution with New World Pictures
  • Halloween: The Curse of Nature's Fury (2004), distribution with New World Pictures
  • Halloween Night
    Halloween Night

    Halloween Night is a 2006 in film United States Horror film produced by The Asylum. Despite sharing a similar title with the 2007 in film film Halloween , Halloween Night is itself an original film as opposed to a Mockbuster, for which The Asylum are infamous....
     (2005), distribution with MGM/UA and New World Pictures
  • Halloween: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (2006), distribution with MGM/UA and New World Pictures
  • Halloween
    Halloween

    Halloween is a holiday celebrated on October 31. It has roots in the Celtic mythology of Samhain and the Christian holy day of All Saints. It is largely a Secularity celebration, but some Christians and Paganism have expressed strong feelings about its religious overtones....
     (2007), distribution with MGM and Dimension Films
    Dimension Films

    Dimension Films is a motion picture unit currently a part of The Weinstein Company. It was formerly used as Bob Weinstein's label within Miramax Films, to produce and release genre films....
  • Halloween: Nemesis (2007), distribution with MGM/UA and New World Pictures
  • Halloween: The Final Chapter (2008), distribution with MGM and New World Pictures
  • Halloween: Michael Myers takes Shelbyville (2008), distribution with MGM/UA and New World Pictures


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