Alec Guiness plays twins (chance twins who meet fortuitously) one a man with too little in his life and one a man with too much. the man with too much leaves the man with too little to take over his life. at first we assume that he has just abandoned everything and given up his life to someone else, but in fact he is using his twin as a scapegoat, as an alibi for a murder. for he kills his rich wife in order to get her inheritance. meanwhile the empty man has made friends with his daughter, gained the love of his mistress, gained insight into the family business that is losing money, gained insight into the sad wife (whose sonlessness is cause of financial problems), gained "insight" into betty davis, his mother who is a morphine addict. confronted by the full man who now wishes to return to his life now that the wife has been murdered with the perfect alibi, the empty man kills the full man and returns to the life he will lead.
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