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Director
  
Peter Sellers

Screenplay
  
Marcel Pagnol

Country
  
United Kingdom

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Genre
  
Comedy, Drama

Duration
  

Language
  
English

Mr Topaze movie poster

Release date
  
4 April 1961 (1961-04-04) (London)

Writer
  
Marcel Pagnol (play), Pierre Rouve

Music director
  
George Martin, Georges Van Parys

Cast
  
Herbert Lom
(Castel Benac),
Peter Sellers
(Auguste Topaze),
Leo McKern
(Muche),
Michael Gough
(Tamise),
John Neville
(Roger),
Martita Hunt
(Baroness)

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Mr. Topaze (also known as I Like Money) is Peter Sellers' directorial debut in 1961. Starring Sellers, Nadia Gray and Leo McKern, as well as Herbert Lom. His son Michael Sellers plays in the film in the role of Gaston. The film is based on the eponymous play by Marcel Pagnol.

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Out of distribution for many years, a print exists in the British Film Institute National Archive, which makes it available for viewing on their website. The film was shown during the 2003 Cardiff Independent Film Festival.

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Plot

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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.

Cast

  • Peter Sellers as Auguste Topaze
  • Nadia Gray as Suzy
  • Herbert Lom as Castel Benac
  • Leo McKern as Muche
  • Martita Hunt as Baroness
  • Michael Gough as Tamise
  • Anne Leon as Mrs. Tamise
  • Billie Whitelaw as Ernestine
  • Joan Sims as Colette
  • John Neville as Roger
  • John Le Mesurier as Blackmailer

    • References

    Mr. Topaze Wikipedia
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