Innocents in Paris

Innocents in Paris
Directed byGordon Parry
Screenplay byAnatole de Grunwald
Produced byAnatole de Grunwald
John Woolf
StarringAlastair Sim
Ronald Shiner
Claire Bloom
Margaret Rutherford
Claude Dauphin
Jimmy Edwards
CinematographyGordon Lang
Edited byGeoffrey Foot
Music byJoseph Kosma
Production
company
Release date
  • 1953 (1953)
Running time
102 min
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£161,462[1]

Innocents in Paris is a 1953 British-French international co-production comedy film produced by 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]

  1. ^ Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 358
  2. ^ Innocents in Paris (1953) - IMDb
  3. ^ Innocents in Paris - BFI