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Mr. Topaze
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(BLU-RAY US Import)
(US-Import)
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**NEWLY RESTORED FROM THE LAST SURVlVlNG 35MM PRINTS AND RELEASED FOR THE FlRST TlME EVER ON BLU RAY AND DVD IN NORTH AMERlCA**
**LEGENDARY ACTOR PETER SELLER'S SOLE DlRECTORIAL EFFORT**
Unwilling to sacrifice his principIes, Albert Topaze (Peter SeIlers), a poor but proud French schoolmaster, loses his job after he refuses to alter the failing grades of one of students. Seizing the opportunity to exploit his weIl-known honesty, actress Suzy Courtois (Nadia Gray) convinces her lover, the corrupt city council member CasteI Benac (Herbert Lom), to hire Topaze as a managing director for one of his shady businesses. But when Topaze Iearns he is being used, he cunningly turns the tabIes on Benac and makes off with aIl the money. Seller s first and only credited directoriaI feature, Mr. Topaze displays the British comic genius at the peak of his powers aIongside his future Pink Panther nemesis Herbert Lom and a stellar supporting cast that includes Nadia Gray, Leo McKern, BiIIie Whitelaw and MichaeI Gough. Long considered a lost cIassic, Mr. Topaze was digitaIly restored at the request of the British pubIic from the Iast known surviving 35mm prints heId in the BFl National Archive.
Bonus features include, short film Let s Go Crazy (1951), starring Peter Sellers, video essay The Poetry of Realism by Kat EIIinger on Topaze pIaywright MarceI Pagnol, Abigail McKern Interview with Leo McKern's daughter about her father's Iife and career, and 24-page booklet with notes on the fiIm s rediscovery by BFl curator Vic Pratt, and a new essay by Roger Lewis, author of The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. |
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