Libel (film)

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Libel
Directed by	Anthony Asquith
Produced by	Anatole de Grunwald
Written by	Edward Wooll (play) Anatole de Grunwald Karl Tunberg
Starring	Dirk Bogarde Olivia de Havilland Paul Massie Robert Morley Wilfrid Hyde-White
Music by	Benjamin Frankel
Cinematography	Robert Krasker
Editing by	Frank Clarke
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	October 23, 1959
Running time	100 mins
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
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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,^[1] and it was directed by Anthony Asquith.

While traveling in London, Jeffrey Buckenham (Massie), a Canadian WWII 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.