Fiction
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[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2021
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Honest French teacher Albert Topaze (Peter Sellers) is fired after refusing to alter the bad grades of a baroness' grandson. Sensing an opportunity, actress Suzy (Nadia Gray) convinces her lover, corrupt city council member Castel Benac (Herbert Lom), to hire Topaze as a managing director for one of his businesses to mitigate any suspicion. When Topaze learns he is being used, he decides to swindle his manipulators. Based on a Marcel Pagnol play, this film was Sellers' sole directorial effort
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Billie Whitelaw, Herbert Lom, John Le Mesurier, Leo McKern, Michael Gough, Nadia Gray, Peter Sellers
Originally produced by Film Movement in 1961
Mode of access: World Wide Web
In English