THE SCAR (1948)

[Larry's 66 Diner]

John Muller (Paul Henreid), a medical school dropout, plans a holdup which goes a little bit wrong, and finds that people are after him.

So he assumes the identity of a psychiatrist, Dr Victor Bartok, who looks identical to him with one exception: a scar on one side of his face. When Muller attempts to alter his appearance to be identical to the doctor's, he places a scar on the wrong side of his face, because the photo he used of the doctor, was a reversed negative!

This is a pretty okay film, but far inferior to Henreid's talents in Casablanca!

[filmnoirfanatic]

Hi! Larry,
Ahh!....In the "world of film noir" this film is considered the most 'fatalistic" and "darkest" of all the films in that world.
Because this film (The Scar Aka as "Hollow Triumph") refuse to let an "inch" of "sunlight" in....what so ever!...."fatalistic" to the core!...That is why film noir fanatics
really like this one!

FNF

[filmnoirfanatic]

Hey! Larry and Larry's 66 Diner Members,

Larry said,"This is a pretty okay film, but far inferior to Henreid's talents in Casablanca!"
Right you are Larry!

Here go a review that a fellow blogger wrote about the 1948 film "The Scar"....
classicnoirmovies.blogspot.com/2008/12/hollow-triumph-aka-scar-steve-sekely.html
According to the author of the review..."however it has the essence of the genre… there is a fatalistic quality in the movie with a menacing shadowy photography (great work by John Alton)."