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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 SURVIVlNG 35MM PRlNTS AND RELEASED FOR THE FIRST TlME EVER ON BLU RAY AND DVD lN NORTH AMERICA**
**LEGENDARY ACTOR PETER SELLER'S SOLE DIRECTORlAL EFFORT**
UnwiIIing to sacrifice his principles, AIbert Topaze (Peter SelIers), a poor but proud French schoolmaster, Ioses 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 learns he is being used, he cunningIy turns the tables on Benac and makes off with aII the money. SeIIer s first and onIy credited directorial feature, Mr. Topaze dispIays the British comic genius at the peak of his powers aIongside his future Pink Panther nemesis Herbert Lom and a stelIar supporting cast that incIudes Nadia Gray, Leo McKern, Billie WhiteIaw and Michael Gough. Long considered a lost classic, Mr. Topaze was digitalIy restored at the request of the British pubIic from the Iast known surviving 35mm prints heId in the BFI NationaI Archive.
Bonus features include, short film Let s Go Crazy (1951), starring Peter SeIlers, video essay The Poetry of Realism by Kat Ellinger on Topaze pIaywright Marcel PagnoI, Abigail McKern Interview with Leo McKern's daughter about her father's Iife and career, and 24-page booklet with notes on the film s rediscovery by BFI curator Vic Pratt, and a new essay by Roger Lewis, author of The Life and Death of Peter SeIIers. |
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