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Action for Slander (1937)

Action for Slander poster
Directed by
Tim Whelan
Genre
drama film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 23m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An army officer is falsely accused of cheating at cards by a man whose wife he had an affair with. He struggles to clear his name and restore his reputation.

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What happens

Action for Slander is a 1937 British drama film directed by Tim Whelan and starring Clive Brook, Ann Todd and Googie Withers. The plot is about an army officer who is falsely accused at cheating at cards by a man whose wife he had an affair with and struggles to clear his name. It was an adaptation of the 1937 novel Action for Slander by Mary Borden. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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