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Mr. Topaze is a British film of genre Drama directed by Peter Sellers with Peter Sellers

Mr. Topaze (1961)

Mr. Topaze
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Length 1h37
Directed by
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Comedy-drama
Rating60% 3.0483053.0483053.0483053.0483053.048305

Mr. Topaze (aka I Like Money) was Peter Sellers' directorial debut in 1961. Starring Sellers, Nadia Gray and Leo McKern, as well as Herbert Lom who quarrelled with Sellers' Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther movies. His son Michael Sellers plays in the film in the role of Gaston.

Out of distribution and seldom screened, this is considered one of Sellers' lost films. A print exists in the British Film Institute National Archive. The film was shown during the 2003 Cardiff Independent Film Festival.

Synopsis

Mr. Topaze (Peter Sellers) 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 (Martita Hunt). Castel Benac (Herbert Lom), a government official who runs a crooked financial business on the side, is persuaded by his mistress, Suzy (Nadia Gray), 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 (Michael Gough) questions him and tells Topaze that what he now says and practices indicates there are no more honest men.

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