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Mr. Topaze (1961)
Directed by Peter Sellers
Comedy, Drama · 1h 37m
Mr. Topaze is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses to give a passing grade to a bad student, the grandson of a wealthy baroness. Castel Benac, a government official who runs a crooked financial business on the side, is persuaded by his mistress, Suzy, a musical comedy actress, to hire Mr. Topaze as the front man for his business. Gradually, Topaze becomes a rapacious financier who sacrifices his honesty for success and, in a final stroke of business bravado, fires Benac and acquires Suzy in the deal. An old friend and colleague, Tamise questions him and tells Topaze that what he now says and practices indicates there are no more honest men.
Cast
Peter Sellers
Nadia Gray
Herbert Lom
Leo McKern
Billie Whitelaw
Michael Gough
Joan Sims
John Le Mesurier
John Neville
Martita Hunt
Crew
- Director
- Peter Sellers
- Writer
- Pierre Rouve, Johnny Speight
- Director of Photography
- John Wilcox
- Editor
- Geoffrey Foot
- Producer
- Pierre Rouve
Details
- Release date
- 1961-04-04
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Dimitri De Grunwald Production