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A French Mistress (1960)

A French Mistress poster
Directed by
Roy Boulting
Genre
comedy film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 38m
Rated
PG
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A new French teacher arrives at a British boys' school. The staff and students become entangled in comedic misunderstandings and flirtations.

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What happens

A French Mistress is a 1960 British comedy film directed by Roy Boulting and starring Cecil Parker, James Robertson Justice, Agnès Laurent, Ian Bannen, Raymond Huntley, Irene Handl and Thorley Walters. It is based on a stage play, The French Mistress by Sonnie Hale under the pen name Robert Monro, first produced in May 1955 at the Prince of Wales Theatre, Cardiff, starring Hale. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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