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.

But its stage origins give its plot some shape and its characters some consistency, while the relaxed and confident playing of Cecil Parker and James Robertson Justice in familiar roles makes the most of the few effective moments of dry humour.

"[8] Variety wrote: "Billed as a “romp,” the Boulting Brothers’ latest entry grapples tenaciously with a fairly frail joke which doesn’t stand up to its early promise.

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.

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.

All those familiar faces should at least have given the action a certain cosy appeal, but they are left high and dry by a script that is little more than a bumper collection of sniggering bike-shed jokes about sex and French women.