Mr. Topaze

Mr. Topaze (1961)

ComedyDrama

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.

Director: Peter Sellers

Casts

	Peter Sellers as Auguste Topaze
	Nadia Gray as Suzy
	Herbert Lom as Castel Benac
	Leo McKern as Muche
	Billie Whitelaw as Ernestine
	Michael Gough as Tamise
	Joan Sims as Colette
	John Le Mesurier as Blackmailer
	John Neville as Roger
	Martita Hunt as Baroness
	Pauline Shepherd as Lilette
	Michael Sellers as Gaston
	Anne Leon as Mrs. Tamise
	Thomas Gallagher as Policeman (uncredited)

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