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

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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