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Despite Bette Davis playing a French dowager countess, The Scapegoat always feels very British. It’s probably exaggerated a little because it takes place in France,.
Playing a dual role, Guinness is well cast as John Barratt, a lonely and discontented teacher of French at a British university, vacations in France. There, by chance, he meets his double, French nobleman Jacques De Gué (also Guinness), and they become acquainted.
While drunk, Barratt accepts De Gué’s invitation to share his hotel room. However, when he wakes up the next morning, Barratt is alone, and his clothes and passport missing.
De Gué’s chauffeur Gaston (Geoffrey Keen) takes him to his master’s home, but Barratt is unable to convince that he is not the nobleman. Gaston calls Dr. Aloin (Noel Howlett), who diagnoses the Englishman as schizophrenic.
