Mr. Topaze
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- Drama
- Comedy
Overview
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- April 4, 1961
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Dimitri De Grunwald Production
- Cast
- Peter Sellers,Nadia Gray,Herbert Lom,Leo McKern,Billie Whitelaw,Michael Gough,Joan Sims,John Le Mesurier,John Neville,Martita Huntand 4 more
- Director
- Peter Sellers
- Producer
- Pierre Rouve
- Cinematography
- John Wilcox
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0055201