A church warden, a judge's daughter, and a murder that broke Ireland's class system wide open.
This is the fascinating true life story of one of Ireland's most famous unsolved murders. It is the tale of how an innocent man was found guilty but insane of the brutal homicide of a young woman from a very prominent family. Told in superb period detail, Scapegoat contains a combustible mix of sex, class, bogus respectability and dark domestic secrets
Acting
Stuart Graham's smarmy, chilling authority figure energy
Production
1950s Belfast recreated with suffocating respectability
Director
Michael McDowell
Stuart Graham
Dr Rossiter Lewis
Martin McCann
Iain Hay Gordon
Ian McElhinney
H. A. McVeigh QC
Patrick Fitzsymons
Albert Walmsley
Patrick Buchanan
John Steele
Karen Hassan
Patricia Curran
Maggie Cronin
Doris Curran
Niall Cusack
Lancelot Curran
Richard Clements
Desmond Curran
Lalor Roddy
Mr Hill
Paddy Rocks
Constable Rutherford
Noel McGee
Malcolm Davison
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Patricia Curran murder in 1952 remains officially unsolved; this film adapts a controversial book that named names the establishment preferred buried.
The 'guilty but insane' verdict was abolished in Northern Ireland partly due to public outcry from this case—Gordon spent seven years in asylums while the real killer walked free among Belfast's elite.
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