Innocents in Paris

Innocents in Paris is a 1953 British-French

Romulus Films, directed by Gordon Parry and starring Alastair Sim, Ronald Shiner, Claire Bloom, Margaret Rutherford, Claude Dauphin, and Jimmy Edwards, and also featuring James Copeland.^[2] Popular French comedy actor Louis de Funès appears as a taxi driver, and there are cameo appearances by Christopher Lee, Laurence Harvey and Kenneth Williams. The writer and producer was Anatole de Grunwald, born in Russia in 1910, who fled to Britain with his parents in 1917. He had a long career there as a writer and producer, including the films The Way to the Stars, The Winslow Boy, Doctor's Dilemma, Libel, and The Yellow Rolls-Royce.^[3]

Plot

The film is a romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying out from

The film displays the mores and manners of the British, and, to a lesser extent, the French, in the early nineteen-fifties. At this time,

chanteuse, singing the original Russian version of the song that became "Those were the Days", which became a hit record for Mary Hopkin

^ Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 358
^ Innocents in Paris (1953) - IMDb
^ Innocents in Paris - BFI
^ "The U.K. exchange control: a short history". Bank of England. September 1967. Retrieved 11 October 2020.