The Scapegoat (1959) Reviews & Ratings

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The Scapegoat reviews

The Scapegoat holds a 6.8/10 average from 42 TMDB ratings.

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 ari…
— CinemaSerf (6/10)

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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