Heck No Pooh's Adventures

Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rope” (1948), released by Warner Bros., was sold to Associated Artists Productions in 1956 along with the pre-1950 Warner Bros. feature films, the pre-September 1948 live-action short subjects, the pre-August 1948 color Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies, and the Harman-Ising Merrie Melodies (excluding “Lady, Play Your Mandolin!”) from Warner Bros., and also bought the Fleischer Studios/Famous Studios Popeye cartoons from Paramount in 1956 (the black and white cartoons) and 1957 (the color cartoons), and in 1958, United Artists bought a.a.p. and renewed the copyright to “Rope” in 1976. Hitchcock and his estate bought this film from United Artists along with four films released by Paramount (“Rear Window” {1954}, “The Trouble with Harry” {1955}, “The Man Who Knew Too Much” {1956} and “Vertigo” {1958}) and in 1983, MCA (owner of Universal Studios) bought the five films from Hitchcock’s estate and reissued them that same year (“Psycho” {1960} was sold to Universal in 1968). “Rope” is probably the only film in the a.a.p. library that MGM, and later, Turner, never owned.