Slander

Scott Martin worked for years as a puppeteer and then becomes known overnight through a children’s television show. At the same time H.R. Manley, who owns a scandal magazine, gets in touch with him. Manley has a file on Martin’s past and threatens to print it. What he wants in exchange is this: information about a famous film actress who was a friend of Martin’s in childhood. The magazine’s circulation is falling and Manley is after a big name. Martin is forced to decide whose life gets taken apart. The film goes straight at the scandal press of the fifties. Van Johnson, Ann Blyth and Steve Cochran take the leads in Roy Rowland’s American film of 1957.