Rent Mr. Topaze (1961)
3.3 of 5 from 65 ratings
1h 37min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Playing the eponymous Mr. Topaze (Peter Sellers), a poor, provincial French schoolteacher slowly corrupted by big business, Sellers is at the peak of his powers. This melancholy character comedy...
- Actors:
- Peter Sellers, Nadia Gray, Herbert Lom, Leo McKern, Martita Hunt, Michael Gough, Anne Leon, Billie Whitelaw, Joan Sims, John Neville, John Le Mesurier, Michael Sellers, Pauline Shepherd, Thomas Gallagher
- Directors:
- Peter Sellers
- Producers:
- Pierre Rouve
- Writers:
- Marcel Pagnol, Pierre Rouve, Johnny Speight
- Aka:
- I Like Money
- Studio:
- BFI Video
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy
- Collections:
- A Brief History of French Poetic Realism, inema Paradiso's 2023 Centenary Club: Part 2
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 15/04/2019
- Run Time:
- 97 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.35:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Let's Go Crazy (1951, 33 mins): a nightclub-set madcap variety show featuring Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan
- The Running Jumping and Standing Still Film (1960, 11 mins): Richard Lester and Peter Sellers' Goonish comic short, featuring Sellers, Spike Milligan and Leo McKern
- Film Star: Peter Sellers (1967, 37 mins): a profile of the actor and comedian Maurice Woodruff Interview (1967, 19 mins): Peter Sellers' favourite clairvoyant interviewed by Bernard Braden for a TV series, Now and Then, that was never made
- John Boulting Interview (1967, 21 mins): the director discusses his relationship with Sellers in an unbroadcast Nowand Then interview with Bernard Braden
- Peter Sellers at the NFT(1960, 92 mins, audio only): the actor addresses an enthusiastic throng of fans
- Abigail McKern Interview (2019, 20 mins): the daughter of Leo McKern discusses the great actor's life and career
- The Poetry of Realism (2019, 13 mins): journalist Kat Ellinger's video essay on Marcel Pagnol, the writer of the film's theatrical source, Topaze
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