Claudio Carvalho The educated criminal John Muller (Paul Henreid) is released from prison and reunites his gang. He plots a scheme to heist the casino owned by the dangerous and powerful mobster Rocky Stansyck, but the holdup goes wrong. Two thieves are captured by the Stansyck's gangsters and they disclose the identities of Muller and his partner Marcy (Herbert Rudley) before being murdered. Marcy travels to Mexico and Muller hides in a city. Soon Marcy is killed in Mexico and Muller is jumpy. One day he is followed by a man and he learns that the man is the dentist Dr. Swangron (John Qualen) that tells that Muller is the doppelganger of hie neighbor, the psychoanalyst Dr. Bartok, and the only difference is a scar on the face of Bartok. Muller visit's Bartok 's office and meets his secretary, Evelyn Hahn (Joan Bennett). He also studies and prepares to impersonate Dr. Bartok. Will his plan work?"Hollow Triumph" is a great film-noir with an ironical story of an intelligent gangster that decides to pose of psychoanalyst ans assume the identity of a man that is identical to him. He succeeds but he does not know who he is impersonating and he will find in the end. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "A Cicatriz" ("The Scar")

Benedito Dias Rodrigues There is a saying "The best fragrances came in small bottles" it fit in this picture,"Noir" is one's my favorite kind of movie, just to say only tree reach at high grade 10/10...Naked City,Double indemnity and now The Scar... even a B-movie it's very original an clever plot,the point is a perfect crime and as we all know probably end up seen found any time...but somehow it's didn't happen.. sometimes some situation is going in the wrong direction and the truth will be exposed,but nothing....the suspense is growing along the way...and when he is about to escape....well l'd better watch the movie for yourself!!!Directed by a unknown this movie has been discovered by thousand movie fans who really enjoy the seventh art...this one is perfect example of that many thing to came to surprise us!!Resume:First watch: 2017 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 10

Robert J. Maxwell You can be forgiven if your heart sinks a little when the titles roll: "An Eagle-Lion Film." The plot could have been cooked up in its outlines during a bull session of a few hours. Nothing is likely to discourage the impression that this is a pretty slow and not very interesting second feature -- except maybe the photography by John Alton, which is pretty good, full of noirish shadows and sometimes odd angles. And there's a touching moment near the end when a charwoman apologetically asks if Henreid's scar isn't on the wrong cheek.Paul Henreid is one of those smart crooks who started out well -- medical school -- and then turned back and was finally convicted for a stick up from which he's now being released. Maybe he's not so smart after all. Giving up a career in medicine for the life of a hold-up man? In any case, the moment he's out of the slams, he gets his old gang together for a big heist at some gambling casino. Something goes wrong, as usual. The guy who runs the casino is unforgiving and he soon learns Henreid was behind the deal. Mister Big knocks off the other three gang members and Henreid is on his own. He hold various menial jobs, like gas station attendant. (No mention of all the dough he made off with after than big heist. Maybe he lost his wallet.)In Los Angeles he stumbles across a curious coincidence. He has a Doppelganger who is a psychoanalyst. The only difference is that the psychiatrist has a scar on his, the shrink's, left cheek. Henreid, desperate to change identities, looks into the shrink's background then knocks him off and takes his place. He romances the shrink's secretary and hangs out at the shrink's clubs. So far so good, except that, at the end, there is an O. Henry twist that satisfies the Breen Office or whatever the Cinematic Superego was called at the time.Paul Henreid's career certainly came like water and like the wind it went. He will always be Victor Lazlo and nobody else. The babe is Joan Bennett who is smoothly believable.There are some curious incidents. One is that, upon his release, Henreid is picked up by a friend who offers him a cigarette. Henreid brushes it away, saying, "You know I never smoke." But half-way through the movie, schmoozing with his secretary, all charm and guile, he gently removes a cigarette from her fingers and begins smoking it himself. He smokes like a volcano throughout the rest of the movie.Another thing is that, had the laws of physics been observed, Henreid would have wound up putting his scar on the correct cheek instead of the wrong one.Here's how he does it in the movie. He hold up a full-face photo of the shrink. The scar is near the right-hand border of the photo. Next to the picture, Henreid holds up a mirror and draws the scar on his own right-hand cheek to duplicate the one in the picture. The problem is that the image we see in the mirror is always flipped. In a mirror, our real right hand seems to be the left hand of the image we're looking at.However, nobody behind the movie REALIZES this! Later, Henreid shows up at the photo shop to collect the negative and they're afraid to tell him that they mistakenly flipped it when they printed it! In other words, he is creating a scar on the CORRECT side of his face, due to the incompetence of the two men at the photo shop and the ignorance of the film's writer.Got that? If the photo shop hadn't flipped the negative around, and if Henreid knew what the hell he was doing when he created that new scar, the scar would have been on the wrong side of his face. But because two mistakes were made, in real life the scar would have been accurately placed. And they say two wrongs don't make a right!

Alex da Silva John Muller (Paul Henreid) robs a casino and gets away with it. However, the casino boss vows to catch up with him. Muller hides himself in a couple of jobs before taking on the persona of Dr Bartok, a psychotherapist, after killing him. He falls in love with Bartok's secretary Evelyn (Joan Bennett) and they plan to flee the country together. Evelyn doesn't believe that he will show up to sail away with her.....There is so much that is wrong with this film but yet it is still entertaining. The cast are good and there is a nice twist at the end. There are also memorable scenes that include the robbery at the beginning, the moment that a couple of contract killers show up at the garage where Muller is working - will they recognize him?, etc. However, the film has to lose a couple of points just because of the plot.John Muller puts a scar on the wrong side of his face and no-one recognizes! Once he becomes the scarred Dr Bartok, none of his work colleagues notice that his scar is on the wrong side of his face? His secretary doesn't notice anything either? Worse still, in her case, is the fact that she has had an affair with Muller before he becomes Dr Bartok and she doesn't suspect that it's the same person? As well as not spotting the scar on the wrong side of his face! It's absolutely ludicrous. His patients also don't notice anything. Neither does his girlfriend Virginia (Leslie Brooks) or any of his social crowd at the casino. Not even John Muller's brother can recognise him coz he's got a mark on his cheek! If you saw your brother standing infront of you with a mark on his cheek that you hadn't seen before, you'd still KNOW it was your brother. And if he said he wasn't your brother, you'd reply "what the f*** are you playing at?" It is truly laughably bad script-writing. Another point that you have to suspend belief on is that John can suddenly become a psychotherapist after a brief period of reading some books about it. Actually, now that I think about it, that is quite realistic.The film keeps you watching despite being completely unbelievable.