The Scapegoat

Alec Guinness plays John Barratt / Jacques De Gué in this 1959 mystery film directed by Robert Hamer, based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier. Englishman John Barratt is on holiday in France when he meets his double, French nobleman Jacques De Gué. After a series of events where Barratt becomes drunk and accepted as De Gué's identity, he finds himself caught up in a web of family secrets and deceit at De Gué's chateau.