

The Scapegoat
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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- Language
- English
- chauffeur
- france
- upper class
- drug addiction
- marriage contract
- murder
- countess
- look-alike
- mistress
- black and white
- death
- assumed identity
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalNR6 Aug 1959
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalPG30 Aug 1959
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The Scapegoat was released on 6 August 1959.
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CinemaSerf
4/4/2022
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 aris…
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