Mr. Topaze
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.
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Cast
25 people
Peter Sellers
Auguste Topaze
Known for
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Being There
Nadia Gray
Suzy
Known for
Two for the Road
Letto a tre piazze
Marcel Pagnol
Dimitri De Grunwald
Peter Murton
Also in
Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun'
Herbert Lom
Castel Benac
Known for
The Dead Zone
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Donald M. Ashton
Pierre Rouve
Leo McKern
Muche
Known for
The Blue Lagoon
A Man for All Seasons
Georges Van Parys
Billie Whitelaw
Ernestine
Known for
Merlin
The Omen
John Wilcox
Peter Sellers Director · Pierre Rouve Writer Johnny Speight Writer
Budget $2M · United States release May 18, 1962 · Produced in United Kingdom
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Budget
$1,961,000
Production
Dimitri De Grunwald Production
Production
United Kingdom
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United Kingdom · April 4, 1961
Theatrical
United States · May 18, 1962
New York City, New York
Australia
March 22, 1962
Canada
June 5, 2020 · internet
Finland
March 23, 1962
Hungary
April 23, 1964
Mexico
November 29, 1962
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