Mr. Topaze (1961)

Directed by

Peter Sellers

Genre

comedy drama

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 37m

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A meek schoolteacher gets a job at a shady business and is drawn into a world of corruption. The film follows his transformation from a naive man into someone more worldly.

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What happens

Mr. Topaze (U.S. title: I Like Money) is a 1961 British film directed by Peter Sellers and starring Sellers, Nadia Gray, Leo McKern, and Herbert Lom. It was Sellers' directorial debut. The screenplay was written by Pierre Rouve based on the 1928 playTopaze by Marcel Pagnol. 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. It was released on Blu-ray and DVD on 15 April 2019 by the BFI. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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