The Scar

(1948)

83 minutes

Film / Crime / Drama / Film Noir

Directed by Steve Sekely

Cast:

Paul Henreid as John Muller alias Dr. Victor Emil Bartok
Joan Bennett as Evelyn Hahn
Eduard Franz as Frederick Muller
Leslie Brooks as Virginia Taylor
John Qualen as Swangron
Mabel Paige as Charwoman  
Herbert Rudley as Marcy
Charles Arnt as Coblenz
George Chandler as Artell
Sid Tomack as Aubrey
Alvin Hammer as Jerry
Ann Staunton as Blonde
Paul E. Burns as Harold
Charles Trowbridge as Deputy
Morgan Farley as Howard Anderson
Jack Webb as Bullseye

John Muller, medical school dropout and brilliant crook, plans a holdup which goes a little bit wrong, and finds vindictive gambler Rocky Stansyck after him. At the end of his tether, he stumbles onto a lucky chance to assume an impenetrable new identity as psychiatrist Victor Bartok. But irony piles on as Muller finds it's out of the frying pan, into the fire.