The Tenth Man is a television movie of 1988 in the Hallmark Hall of Fame series, based on the novel The Tenth Man (1985) by Graham Greene. It stars Anthony Hopkins, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Derek Jacobi, who received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie.
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Plot
Chavel, a rich Paris lawyer, in a German prison during the Second World War and about to be executed, finds a fellow prisoner who is willing to take over his identity and die in his place. In return, the other man's family will get to keep all his money. He then has to serve out the sentence of the other man. After his release, he returns to his old home but does not reveal himself.
Cast
Anthony Hopkins as Chavel / Charlot
Derek Jacobi as Carosse
Kristin Scott Thomas as Thérèse Mangeot
Cyril Cusack as the Priest
Brenda Bruce as Madame Mangeot
Timothy Watson as Michel Mangeot
Paul Rogers as Breton
Robert Morgan as German Officer
Geoffrey Bayldon as Elderly Clerk
Michael Attwell as Krogh
Jim Carter as Pierre
Peter Jonfield as Roche