97 minutos
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.
Peter Sellers
Auguste Topaze
Herbert Lom
Castel Benac
Leo McKern
Muche
Michael Gough
Tamise
John Neville
Roger
Martita Hunt
Baroness
Nadia Gray
Suzy
Anne Leon
Mrs. Tamise
Billie Whitelaw
Ernestine
Joan Sims
Colette
John Le Mesurier
Blackmailer
Pauline Shepherd
Lilette
Thomas Gallagher
Policeman (uncredited)
