Libel (film)

Libel (film)

Infobox Film
name = Libel


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director = Anthony Asquith
producer = Anatole de Grunwald
writer = Edward Wooll (play)
Anatole de Grunwald
Karl Tunberg
narrator =
starring = Dirk Bogarde
Olivia de Havilland
Paul Massie
Robert Morley
Wilfrid Hyde-White
music = Benjamin Frankel
cinematography = Robert Krasker
editing = Frank Clarke
distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
released = October 23 1959
runtime = 100 mins
country = United Kingdom
language = English
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website =
amg_id = 1:99467
imdb_id = 0053003

"Libel" is a 1959 British drama film which stars Olivia de Havilland, Dirk Bogarde, Paul Massie, Wilfrid Hyde-White and Robert Morley. The film's screenplay was written by Anatole de Grunwald and Karl Tunberg from a play of the same name by Edward Wooll, ["Libel" by Edward Wooll played on Broadway for 159 performances in 1935-1936. IBDB [http://ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=12045 "Libel"] ] and it was directed by Anthony Asquith.

Plot

While traveling in London, Jeffrey Buckenham (Massie), a Canadian Second World War veteran, sees Sir Mark Sebastian Loddon (Bogarde) on television leading a tour of his grand family home. Buckingham was held in a German POW camp with Loddon, and while watching him, becomes convinced that he is in fact another former POW, Frank Wellney, an actor (also played by Bogarde). Buckenham publicly announces his suspicion that Welney murdered Loddon during an escape from the POW camp, and has taken the young nobleman's place. Loddon sues Buckenham for libel, but his mind is still battered by some terrible incident that occurred during his escape fifteen years before, and in time even his loyal wife (deHavilland) begins to doubt him.

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