John Muller (Paul Henreid), an intelligent, arrogant criminal who has been a medical student and a phony psychoanalyst, believes that people are only interested in themselves and do not notice what is happening around them. Paroled from prison to a boring job, Muller is more interested in a big score, and along with his old cronies robs a crooked gambling ****** owned by Rocky Stansyck (Thomas Brown Henry). Although he gets away with the money, some of his men are caught by Stansyck and identify John as the ringleader. On the run from Stansyck's gang, he is mistaken for Dr. Bartok, a psychiatrist also played by Henreid. Curious, Muller goes to the doctor's office, and meets Bartok's secretary and lover, Evelyn Nash (Joan Bennett). Needing to avoid capture, he assumes Bartok's identity, but first must scar his face like the doctor's. Working from a photograph printed from a reversed negative, he applies the scar to the wrong side. Though fooled at first, when Evelyn discovers the truth, she decides to leave, although she is in love with Muller/Bartok. Steve Sekely's Hollow Triumph (aka The Scar) is a film that requires an exceptionally hefty suspension of disbelief in its reliance on coincidence and the literal acceptance of Muller's cynical view of human blindness. Steve Press, Rovi
- Genre: Crime & Espionage
- Category Crime Thriller, Film Noir
- Theme: Assumed Identities, Twins and Lookalikes, Criminal's Revenge, Crime Gone Awry
- Studio: Alpha Video
- Run Time: 01 hr 22 min
- Language: English
- Release Date: October 21, 2003
- Lead Actor: John Qualen, Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett, Eduard Franz, Leslie Brooks
- Supporting Actor: George Chandler, Charles Arnt, Morgan Farley, Charles Trowbridge, Cyril Ring, Eddie Dunn, Joel Friedkin, Lyle Latell, Mack Williams, Lulu Mae Bohrman, Norma Varden, Felice Ingersoll, Vera Marshe, Dulce Daye, Benny Rubin, Catherine Doucet, Franklin Farnum, Jerry Marlowe, Nolan Leary, Babe London, Ray Bennett, Dick Wessel, Renny McEvoy, Philip Morris, Herbert Rudley, Mabel Paige, Sam Finn, Cay Forrester, Florence Wix, Sayre Dearing, Henry Brandon, Jack Webb, Joaquin Elizondo, Lucien Littlefield, Thomas Brown Henry, Constance Purdy, Bud Wolfe, Robert Ben Ali, Cliff Clark, Ann Staunton, Carmencita Johnson, Sid Tomack, Alvin Hammer, Paul E. Burns
- Director: Steve Sekely