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The Scapegoat is a 1959 British mystery film directed by Robert Hamer and starring Alec Guinness, Nicole Maurey and Bette Davis. [2] [3] [4] The screenplay was by Hamer and Gore Vidal based on the 1957 novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier .
The Scapegoat: Directed by Robert Hamer. With Alec Guinness, Bette Davis, Nicole Maurey, Irene Worth. An English schoolteacher meets his lookalike, a French count; and unwillingly swaps identities with him.
- (2.5K)
- Crime, Mystery, Thriller
- Robert Hamer
- 1959-08-06
Scapegoat, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) An Emptiness In The Heart Opening the MGM-British production, with affecting narration by Alec Guinness, from Gore Vidal’s screenplay based on Daphne Du Maurier’s novel, as English teacher Barratt, arriving on the ferry at Port Boulogne, Calais, then reaching Le Mans (though the city is never named) and it’s famous cathedral, briefly meeting Peter Bull, in The Scapegoat, 1959, co-starring Bette Davis.
- Robert Hamer, Tom Pevsner
- Alec Guinness
Fascinated, John accompanies Jacques to his hotel for drinks and passes out. The next morning, Jacques has vanished. His chauffeur mistakes John for him and takes him to the De Gué chateau. There ...
- (67)
- Robert Hamer
- Mystery & Thriller
- Alec Guinness
Alec Guinness has double trouble in this stylish mystery thriller costarring Bette Davis, based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier (Rebecca). When John Barrat...
Watch on Apple iTunes. NR 1 hr 32 min Aug 6th, 1959 Thriller, Crime, Mystery. An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike ...
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An English schoolteacher meets his lookalike, a French count; and unwillingly swaps identities with him. On a vacation in France from his nondescript job and life, John Barratt encounters a titled but impoverished French nobleman who looks exactly like him. The nobleman gets John drunk, and switches places with him to take a breather from his ...
