The Scapegoat

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Ted B 2.5 stars. If you can at first accept a very long stretch for the basis of the story... A professor vacationing in Paris runs into his doppelgänger who looks exactly like him, so much so that no one would recognize any difference. The doppelgänger drugs him and sets him up to live the life of his look-alike. This is all done for poor criminal reasons... Follow the money. Sir Alec Guinness was the lead in this mystery film. Betty Davis made a pretty much cameo appearance. I didn't really see a major effort out of either one of them. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 06/13/24 Full Review Steve D Lumbering. With some of Davis's worst work ever. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 04/10/24 Full Review Audience Member The premise is contrived to begin with: a British professor vacationing in Paris happens to meet a French count who looks and sounds just like him. They converse in a bar, and the professor admits having a dull and empty life while the count has had a very full life. The count tricks the professor into staying at a hotel room, and in the morning, the count disappears, leaving the professor to be mistaken for the count. The professor tries to convince the count's family and associates that he is not really the count, but nobody believes him, and he is forced to play the count's role, dealing with his family, the glass foundry the count owns, and the count's friends and mistresses. The professor's behavior and attitudes differ than that of the real count, but only one of the mistresses puts two and two together. Akin to Monty Python, the movie is played straight, and the performers all play their parts well. The movie would undoubtedly have come crashing down if it weren't for that. The movie is in fact based on a novel by Daphne DuMarier, whose plot is quite more complicated. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member It's a one-idea film involving a case of mistaken identity. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review s r Guinness always impresses. I enjoyed this romantic take on a a twilight zonesque plot that ends well. Although it is slow and you need to pay attention at times, it is beautiful and captivating. Everyone wants to have the chance to lead the life of an aristocrat, and this story works it out for this lonely Englishman. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member pretty good mid-career stuff here from Davis and I think the last film of Davis' that I have scene/reviewed Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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