Slander (1956)
- Directed by
- Roy Rowland
- Genre
- drama film, film noir
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 21m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 12 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A man is threatened by a gossip magazine that plans to expose a fact from his past. He tries to protect his family and career from the scandal.
tensemelancholicurgentdarkly comicgrittily realisticsuspensefulmorally complexserious
What happens
Slander is a 1957 American drama film directed by Roy Rowland and starring Van Johnson, Ann Blyth and Steve Cochran. It was produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film centers on a scandal magazine similar to the real-life Confidential and Whisper gossip magazines, which had published "smear" stories about many celebrities, including Johnson. Despite the film's title, its plot concerns written material, which would possibly become the grounds for defamation litigation as the tort of libel, not slander, which applies only to oral communication. Furthermore, defamation suits only have legal merit if the content is proven to be false, but the plot centers on the publication of a factual event in a man's past that he admits to be truthful. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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