Based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier, first published in 1957.
*mild spoilers follow*
Two men who look exactly alike meet by chance. One of them is an unemployed teacher, the other an aristocrat and industrialist. The industrialist is in a tight financial spot, and flees with all of the teacher's belongings and documents. The teacher takes the other man's place.
Apparently a TV movie. The plot has some seriously dubious zones. The rich guy's motivations are not clear, but one can always imagine that they weren't clear even to him. A more problematic point is how this guy supposed he was going to profit from murder. It is very unlikely that he would, in my opinion. Anyway, the film has a more serious problem, having to do with style. The protagonist is a "sensitive" guy, a fact noticeable not only in his actions, but also in the dialogue and its delivery; this is a characteristic of recent TV productions (and even some cinema), which affects even stories set in earlier times (in this one, it is the fifties); moral strength is always associated with mild manners.
Rating: 33
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