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{{Infobox film
| name = A French Mistress
| image = "A_French_Mistress"_(1960).jpg
| alt = 
| caption = Original British quad poster
| director = [[Roy Boulting]]
| producer = [[John Boulting]]
| screenplay = Roy Boulting<br>[[Jeffrey Dell]]
| based_on = play ''[[The French Mistress]]'' by [[Sonnie Hale]]
| starring = [[Cecil Parker]]<br>[[James Robertson Justice]]<br>[[Ian Bannen]]
| music = [[John Addison]]
| cinematography = [[Mutz Greenbaum]]
| editing = [[John Jympson]]
| studio = Charter Film Productions
| distributor = [[British Lion Film Corporation|British Lion]] (U.K.)<br>Films Around the World (U.S.)
| released = {{Film date|1960|08|25|London|df=y}}
| runtime = 98 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
}}

'''''A French Mistress''''' is a 1960 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Roy Boulting]] and starring [[Cecil Parker]], [[James Robertson Justice]], [[Agnès Laurent]], [[Ian Bannen]], [[Raymond Huntley]], [[Irene Handl]] and [[Thorley Walters]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6aaa43fc|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120712172933/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6aaa43fc|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-07-12|title=A French Mistress (1960)|work=BFI}}</ref>

It is based on a stage play, ''[[The French Mistress]]'' by [[Sonnie Hale]] under the pen name Robert Monro, first produced in 1955 at the [[Theatre Royal Windsor]],
starring Hale.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9f4801e5|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722043603/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9f4801e5|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-07-22|title=Sonnie Hale|work=BFI}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://derekwinnert.com/a-french-mistress-1960-cecil-parker-james-robertson-justice-ian-bannen-raymond-huntley-irene-handl-agnes-laurent-classic-movie-review-2117/|title=A French Mistress *** (1960, Cecil Parker, James Robertson Justice, Ian Bannen, Raymond Huntley, Irene Handl, Agnès Laurent) – Classic Movie Review 2117|work=Derek Winnert|date=26 January 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/31957435/|title=The News Tribune from Fort Pierce, Florida · Page 12|work=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

==Production==
Production was filmed at [[Brunel University London|Shoreditch Training College]], [[Englefield Green]], [[Borough of Runnymede]], [[Surrey]], [[England]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Shoreditch College Archives |url=https://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/Archives/Shoreditch-College-Archives |website=[[Brunel University London]] |access-date=6 December 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Hostler |first1=Tom |title=Filming |url=https://www.runnymedecampus.com/filming/ |website=Runnymede Campus Archive |access-date=6 December 2021}}</ref> formerly the [[Royal Indian Engineering College]].

==Plot summary==
A young French woman, Madaleine Lafarge, is unintentionally appointed as the French teacher at an English public school for boys, which is not used to having women teachers. She causes a stir with pupils and other school staff, and complications ensue.

A romance develops between Lafarge and the headmaster's son who is also a teacher at the school. This is a cause of concern for the headmaster when he comes to believe that she is his daughter, from an affair he had during a holiday in France in his youth. He attempts to stop the romance by sacking her, so that she will go back to France, but the boys go on strike and nearly riot. All the problems are resolved when it becomes apparent that she cannot be his daughter.

==Cast==
[[Image:Brunel University Runnymede.jpg|thumb|right|Film location, 2004]]
* [[Cecil Parker]] as Headmaster John Crane
* [[James Robertson Justice]] as Robert Martin
* [[Ian Bannen]] as Colin Crane
* [[Agnès Laurent]] as Madeleine LaFarge
* [[Raymond Huntley]] as Reverend Edwin Peake
* [[Irene Handl]] as Staff Sergeant Hodges
* [[Edith Sharpe]] as Matron
* [[Kenneth Griffith]] as Mr Meade
* Robert Bruce as Mr Ramsay
* [[Thorley Walters]] as Colonel Edmonds
* [[Henry Longhurst (actor)|Henry Longhurst]] as 2nd Governor
* [[Brian Oulton]] as 3rd Governor
* Scot Finch as Edmonds, Head Boy
* Richard Palmer as Milsom
* Peter Greenspan as Wigram
* [[David Griffin (actor)|David Griffin]] as Slater
* [[Jeremy Bulloch]] as Baines
* David Diarmid Cammell as Vane
* [[Chris Sandford]] as Poole
* Gregory Warwick as Warwick
* Nigel Bulloch as Proffit
* Gordon Pleasant as Benson
* [[Michael Crawford]] as Kent
* Pearson Dodd as Church
* [[Christopher Beeny]] as Stephenson
* [[Athene Seyler]] as Beatrice Peake
* [[Cardew Robinson]] as Ambulance Attendant
* [[Margaret Lacey]] as Kitchen Maid
* Paul Sheridan as M Fraguier, Previous French Teacher

==Critical reception==
[[Bosley Crowther]] in [[The New York Times]] wrote, "We would have expected something better from the Boultings and Mr. Dell. A good cast of old familiars—excepting Agnes Laurent, a newcomer who plays the mademoiselle — try to do something with it and occasionally do all right with a line here, a facial expression or a situation there. Cecil Parker puffs and pouts as the headmaster, and Ian Bannen stands up stoutly as his son. Raymond Huntley and James Robertson Justice do their acts as other masters in the school. Irene Handl also draws a few fast laughs as the compulsively pugnacious cook, and Edith Sharpe and Athene Seyler cluck politely as the only other females around the place. But the ministrations of the stalwarts do not quite save the day. The Boultings are onto a sticky wicket with that silly sex-scandal stuff."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9906EEDF1531EF3ABC4152DFB467838B679EDE|title = Movie Reviews|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 16 September 2021}}</ref>

==Theme==

[[Tamahine]], three years later, (1963), used the same theme.

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0053839}}
*{{Amg movie|92342}}

{{Boulting brothers}}

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