Top billed cast

1. 

   Dirk Bogarde

   Sir Mark Loddon / Frank Welney / Number Fifteen

2. 

   Olivia de Havilland

   Lady Margaret Anne Loddon

3. 

   Paul Massie

   Jeffrey Buckenham

4. 

   Robert Morley

   Sir Wilfred

5. 

   Wilfrid Hyde-White

   Hubert Foxley

6. 

   Anthony Dawson

   Gerald Loddon

7. 

   Richard Wattis

   The Judge

8. 

   Richard Dimbleby

   Himself

9. 

   Martin Miller

   Dr. Schrott

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Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on 2015-08-11

The Amnesiac Doppleganger.

Libel is directed by Anthony Asquith and adapted from Edward Wooll's play by Anatole de Grunwald and Karl Tunberg. It stars Dirk Bogarde, Olivia de Havilland, Paul Massie, Robert Morley, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Anthony Dawson and Richard Wattis. Music is by Benjamin Frankel and cinematography by Robert Krasker.

A shell-shocked ex-WWII prisoner of war with amnesia is accused of being an impostor by one of the guys he was imprisoned with. This sends him spinning into the middle of a Libel court case that could destroy everything in his life.

A splendidly stylish m...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• court case
• england
• war veteran
• return
• look-alike
• impostor
• courtroom drama
• english nobility
• libel suit
• airplane pilot
• pow
• prisoner of war camp