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.

Top Cast

Peter Sellers

Auguste Topaze

Nadia Gray

Suzy

Herbert Lom

Castel Benac

Leo McKern

Muche

Billie Whitelaw

Ernestine

Michael Gough

Tamise

Joan Sims

Colette

John Le Mesurier

Blackmailer

John Neville

Roger

Martita Hunt

Baroness

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Pauline Shepherd

Lilette

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Michael Sellers

Gaston