The Scapegoat (1959)

89 min · Crime, Mysterie, crime film

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Directors

Robert Hamer

Cast

Alec Guinness, Bette Davis, Nicole Maurey, Irene Worth, Pamela Brown, Annabel Bartlett, Noel Howlett, Geoffrey Keen, Peter Bull, Leslie French

The story

John Barratt, a lonely, discontented teacher of French at a British university, is on holiday in France. There, by chance, he meets his double, French nobleman Jacques De Gué. They become acquainted.

Catalogue themes and tags

Act of Deception, British, Countess, French, Identity, Identity theft, Reicher Graf, Scapegoat, Similarity, Stolen Identity, adlig, Crime Fiction, Mystery, Black-and-white

Genres

Crime, Mysterie, crime film

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