Mr. Topaze

1961
PG
1h 37m

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6.1/10

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A poor but proud French teacher gets fired after refusing to modify the grades of a rich student. As this could be the opportunity to exploit his honesty, Castel Benac hires Topaze as a mana... Read allA poor but proud French teacher gets fired after refusing to modify the grades of a rich student. As this could be the opportunity to exploit his honesty, Castel Benac hires Topaze as a managing director for a shady business.A poor but proud French teacher gets fired after refusing to modify the grades of a rich student. As this could be the opportunity to exploit his honesty, Castel Benac hires Topaze as a managing director for a shady business.

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Although it was made at the height of Peter Sellers's popularity, and had great publicity as a result of his also directing it, this was a considerable critical and financial failure - so much so that advertising took the extraordinary step of citing derogatory critical notices as well as favorable ones and suggesting that audiences might like to make up their own minds. A similar controversy attended the opening of the first London production of the original play, which took place in 1933 - Raymond Massey, who played Sellers's role of Topaze in it, reports in his autobiography that the first act was met with rapturous applause and even a standing ovation, the second act by markedly more reserved applause, and the end of the play with virtually no applause at all and audible audience hostility.