The Scapegoat

In this mystery, an English teacher finds himself entangled in the murderous schemes of a wealthy French count, who happens to look just like him. The count talks the teacher into trading places. In his new guise, the count kills his wife and takes off with his mistress., A British professor meets his double, who’s a French nobleman, and unwillingly swaps identities with him. Based on the novel by Daphne Du Maurier., Alec Guinness plays a school-teacher caught up in a murder plot through his uncanny resemblance to a French count, who is planning to kill his wife., The late Alec Guinness plays a school-teacher caught up in a murder plot through his uncanny resemblance to a French count, who is planning to kill his wife.