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The Scapegoat

1959

Action / Crime / Mystery / Thriller

The Scapegoat

1959

Action / Crime / Mystery / Thriller

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6.8/10 · 2.8K

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Plot summary

An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman.

Director

Robert Hamer

Top cast

Geoffrey Keen as Gaston

Bette Davis as Countess

Sam Kydd as Man

Alec Guinness as John Barratt / Jacques De Gue

Tech specs

720p.WEB 1080p.WEB

846.88 MB

1280*720

English 2.0

Unrated

Subtitles

23.976 fps

1 hr 32 min

Seeds 1

1.54 GB

1920*1080

English 2.0

Unrated

Subtitles

23.976 fps

1 hr 32 min

Seeds 6

Comments 3

NotdaPope 1490 days ago

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monaies 1491 days ago

Thank you very much!

neo1966 1491 days ago

Nice: magnets links. More, please. And thanks for the classic movie (and its sub)

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6 / 10

Alec Guinness walks into a bar where he

CinemaSerf

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…

5 / 10

Troubled swapping

TheLittleSongbird

There was more than one reason for wanting to see 'The Scapegoat'. Alec Guinness was an enormously versatile actor who played two or more characters in the…

There was more than one reason for wanting to see 'The Scapegoat'. Alec Guinness was an enormously versatile actor who played two or more characters in the same film better than a lot of actors (i.e. his tour-de-force work in 'Kind Hearts and Coronets'). Also have always hugely admired Bette Davis and really like to love many of her performances. Daphne DuMaurier was a fine author, and while adaptations of her work varied some of them are truly fine indeed (i.e. 1940's 'Rebecca'). Sadly, 'The Scapegoat' is really not one of her better adaptations. Not an awful film by all means, but its troubled production (most of it revolving around Davis, apparently intolerable to work with with almost nobody being on her good side) is evident all over it throughout and only Guinness and composer Bronislau Kaper come off completely unscathed. Everybody did much better work before and since, for me in particular Davis' performance, coming up to her twilight years period, is one of her worst and it is a shame because she was one fine actress. Guinness does a noble job in his two roles, underplaying without looking uncomfortable or bored. Irene Worth, Nicole Maurey and Pamela Brown do well with what they have, their characters could have been written with more meat but Worth particularly makes the most of it. 'The Scapegoat' is nicely and professionally made, especially the photography with seamless work done with making the double roles not too obvious. Kaper's score is both beautiful (with a sumptuously orchestrated but not gloopy love-like theme) and ominous, with shades of Rachmaninov in the piano writing in the main and end title music. Not overbearing what goes on. Enough of the script intrigues and once the film gets going it doesn't feel overly wordy. It takes time to get going however and some of the plotting later on in the film gets over-complicated and muddled. The book's plot is pretty complex too but not to this extent. Robert Hamer's terrible struggles behind the scenes shows in his direction, which is too often ill at ease and pedestrian. On the most part, 'The Scapegoat' could have done with a lot more edge and suspense, of which there is not enough of here and they were things that were very much there in the book. The ending takes ambiguity way too far with things crying out for resolution that didn't come and it confused the film even more. As good an actress Davis was, her outrageous hamminess here felt like it came from another film as it really didn't gel with everything else. Concluding, am very mixed on this film. Has its strengths but too many big problems. 5/10

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