Alec Guinness
John Barratt/Jacques De Gue
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Box office. $1,195,000 [1] The Scapegoat is a 1959 British mystery film based on the 1957 novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier, and starring Alec Guinness, Nicole Maurey and Bette Davis. [2] [3]
- $943,000
- Michael Balcon
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.
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- Crime, Mystery, Thriller
- Robert Hamer
- 1959-08-06
It would be hard to go wrong with a movie starring Alec Guiness and Bette Davis. Good story, but the plot doesn't always make sense. ... The Scapegoat (1959) The Scapegoat (1959) The Scapegoat ...
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- Robert Hamer
- Mystery & Thriller
- Alec Guinness
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 ...
Scapegoat, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Lie To Me Later Alec Guinness, who really is Barrat, an English teacher just in from Paris, meets daffy French countess Du Gue (Bette Davis) who believes he's her look-alike nephew, who has disappeared, leaving his troubles to his twin, in The Scapegoat, 1959, from a Daphne Du Maurier novel.
There's plenty in The Scapegoat of interest otherwise; a sprawling château to die for, an amazing car, supporting stiff-upper-lip Brit cast pretending to be Franch aristos pitching the scenery-chewing just right, and Bette Davis, presumably in the days she couldn't get arrested in the States, being as John/Jacques says, 'sulphurous'.
