The Scapegoat

  • Mystery
  • Crime
  • Thriller
8/6/1959
92
NR

He took another man's name... lived another man's life... loved another man's woman!

An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman.

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  • Geronimo1967

    Alec Guinness walks into a bar where he encounters his doppelgänger. They might be twins. His "Barratt" character is a teacher of French at an British university, his mirror image an impoverished local aristocrat. The two drink together, then end up sharing the latter man's hotel room. In the morning, "Barratt" wakes up and there is no sign of his roommate. Next thing, a chauffeur arrives and, assuming he is the aristocratic version of himself, takes him to their chateau where he meets the (his) family. Clearly he is being manipulated, but why and by whom? It does not take him long to realise that this family is pretty dysfunctional - lead by the morphine-addicted "Countess" (Bette Davis in her best Elizabeth I form), with his wife , his mi...

    April 4, 2022

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