Mr. Topaze

1961 · ⭐ 5.5 · Votes: 4

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. 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.