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	~~{{short description\|1953 film by Gordon Parry}}~~
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	{{Infobox film		{{Infobox film
	\| name = Innocents in Paris		\| name = Innocents in Paris
	\| image = Iiparispos.jpg		\| image = Iiparispos.jpg
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	\| alt =		\| alt =
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	\| caption =		\| caption =
	\| director = [[w:Gordon Parry (film director)\|Gordon Parry]]		\| director = [[Gordon Parry (film director)\|Gordon Parry]]
	\| screenplay = [[w:Anatole de Grunwald\|Anatole de Grunwald]]		\| screenplay = [[Anatole de Grunwald\|Anatole de Grunwald]]
	\| story =		\| story =
	\| based_on =		\| based_on =
	\| producer = Anatole de Grunwald<br>[[w:John Woolf (producer)\|John Woolf]]		\| producer = Anatole de Grunwald<br>[[John Woolf (producer)\|John Woolf]]
	\| starring = [[Alastair Sim]]<br>[[Ronald Shiner]]<br>[[w:Claire Bloom\|Claire Bloom]]<br>[[Margaret Rutherford]]<br>[[w:Claude Dauphin (actor)\|Claude Dauphin]]<br>[[Jimmy Edwards]]<br>		\| starring = [[Alastair Sim]]<br>[[Ronald Shiner]]<br>[[Claire Bloom\|Claire Bloom]]<br>[[Margaret Rutherford]]<br>[[Claude Dauphin (actor)\|Claude Dauphin]]<br>[[Jimmy Edwards]]<br>
	\| narrator =		\| narrator =
	\| cinematography = Gordon Lang		\| cinematography = Gordon Lang
	\| editing = [[w:Geoffrey Foot (film editor)\|Geoffrey Foot]]		\| editing = [[Geoffrey Foot (film editor)\|Geoffrey Foot]]
	\| music = [[w:Joseph Kosma\|Joseph Kosma]]		\| music = [[Joseph Kosma\|Joseph Kosma]]
	\| studio = [[w:Romulus Films\|Romulus Films]]		\| studio = [[Romulus Films\|Romulus Films]]
	\| distributor =		\| distributor =
	\| released = 1953		\| released = 1953
	\| runtime = 102 min		\| runtime = 102 min
	\| country = [[w:United Kingdom\|United Kingdom]]		\| country = [[United Kingdom\|United Kingdom]]
	\| language = English		\| language = English
	\| budget =		\| budget =
	\| gross =		\| gross =
	}}		}}
	'''''Innocents in Paris''''' is a 1953 British-French [[w:international co-production\|international co-production]] [[w:comedy film\|comedy film]] produced by [[w:Romulus Films\|Romulus Films]], directed by [[w:Gordon Parry (film director)\|Gordon Parry]] and starring [[Alastair Sim]], [[Ronald Shiner]], [[w:Claire Bloom\|Claire Bloom]], [[Margaret Rutherford]], [[w:Claude Dauphin (actor)\|Claude Dauphin]], and [[Jimmy Edwards]], and also featuring [[w:James Copeland (actor)\|James Copeland]].<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044749/ Innocents in Paris (1953) - IMDb]</ref> Popular French comedy actor [[w:Louis de Funès\|Louis de Funès]] appears as a taxi driver, and there are cameo appearances by [[w:Christopher Lee\|Christopher Lee]], [[w:Laurence Harvey\|Laurence Harvey]] and [[Kenneth Williams]]. The writer and producer was [[w:Anatole de Grunwald\|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 ''[[w:The Way to the Stars\|The Way to the Stars]]'', ''[[w:The Winslow Boy\|The Winslow Boy]]'', ''Doctor's Dilemma'', ''Libel'', and ''The Yellow Rolls Royce''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090114021131/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/37612 Innocents in Paris - BFI]</ref>		'''''Innocents in Paris''''' is a 1953 British-French [[international co-production\|international co-production]] [[comedy film\|comedy film]] produced by [[Romulus Films\|Romulus Films]], directed by [[Gordon Parry (film director)\|Gordon Parry]] and starring [[Alastair Sim]], [[Ronald Shiner]], [[Claire Bloom\|Claire Bloom]], [[Margaret Rutherford]], [[Claude Dauphin (actor)\|Claude Dauphin]], and [[Jimmy Edwards]], and also featuring [[James Copeland (actor)\|James Copeland]].<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044749/ Innocents in Paris (1953) - IMDb]</ref> Popular French comedy actor [[Louis de Funès\|Louis de Funès]] appears as a taxi driver, and there are cameo appearances by [[Christopher Lee\|Christopher Lee]], [[Laurence Harvey\|Laurence Harvey]] and [[Kenneth Williams]]. The writer and producer was [[Anatole de Grunwald\|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 Way to the Stars]]'', ''[[The Winslow Boy\|The Winslow Boy]]'', ''Doctor's Dilemma'', ''Libel'', and ''The Yellow Rolls Royce''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090114021131/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/37612 Innocents in Paris - BFI]</ref>

	==Plot==		==Plot==
	The film is a romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying out from [[w:Heathrow Airport\|The London Airport]] for a weekend in Paris in 1953 in a [[w:British European Airways\|British European Airways]] [[w:Airspeed Ambassador\|Airspeed Ambassador]]. An English diplomat (Sim) is on a working trip to obtain an agreement with his Russian counterpart (Illing); a [[w:Royal Marine\|Royal Marine]] [[w:Royal Marines Band Service\|bandsman]] (Shiner) has a night out on the tiles after winning a pool of the French currency held by all the Marines in his band; a young woman (Bloom) finds romance with an older Frenchman (Dauphin) who gives her a tour of Paris; an amateur artist (Rutherford) searches out fellow painters on the [[w:Rive Gauche\|Left Bank]] and in the [[w:Louvre\|Louvre]]; a hearty Englishman (Edwards) spends the entire weekend in an English-style pub; and a [[w:Operation Overlord\|Battle of Normandy]] veteran (Copeland) is an archetypal Scotsman in [[w:kilt\|kilt]] and [[w:Tam o' Shanter (cap)\|Tam o' Shanter]] who finds love with a young French woman (Gérard).		The film is a romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying out from [[Heathrow Airport\|The London Airport]] for a weekend in Paris in 1953 in a [[British European Airways\|British European Airways]] [[Airspeed Ambassador\|Airspeed Ambassador]]. An English diplomat (Sim) is on a working trip to obtain an agreement with his Russian counterpart (Illing); a [[Royal Marine\|Royal Marine]] [[Royal Marines Band Service\|bandsman]] (Shiner) has a night out on the tiles after winning a pool of the French currency held by all the Marines in his band; a young woman (Bloom) finds romance with an older Frenchman (Dauphin) who gives her a tour of Paris; an amateur artist (Rutherford) searches out fellow painters on the [[Rive Gauche\|Left Bank]] and in the [[Louvre\|Louvre]]; a hearty Englishman (Edwards) spends the entire weekend in an English-style pub; and a [[Operation Overlord\|Battle of Normandy]] veteran (Copeland) is an archetypal Scotsman in [[kilt\|kilt]] and [[Tam o' Shanter (cap)\|Tam o' Shanter]] who finds love with a young French woman (Gérard).

	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, [[w:Foreign exchange controls\|Britons were allowed to take only £25 out of the country]],<ref>{{cite web\|title=The U.K. exchange control: a short history\|url=https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/1967/q3/the-uk-exchange-control-a-short-history\|website=Bank of England\|access-date=11 October 2020}}</ref> as £5 British cash and [[w:traveller's cheques\|traveller's cheques]], and there are several scenes showing how the travellers dealt with this. The film also features a Russian nightclub (of which there were several in Paris at the time), with Ludmila Lopato, a Russian [[w:tzigane\|tzigane]] [[w:chanteuse\|chanteuse]], singing the original Russian version of the song that became "[[w:Those Were the Days (song)\|Those were the Days]]", which became a hit record for [[w:Mary Hopkin\|Mary Hopkin]].		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, [[Foreign exchange controls\|Britons were allowed to take only £25 out of the country]],<ref>{{cite web\|title=The U.K. exchange control: a short history\|url=https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/1967/q3/the-uk-exchange-control-a-short-history\|website=Bank of England\|access-date=11 October 2020}}</ref> as £5 British cash and [[traveller's cheques\|traveller's cheques]], and there are several scenes showing how the travellers dealt with this. The film also features a Russian nightclub (of which there were several in Paris at the time), with Ludmila Lopato, a Russian [[tzigane\|tzigane]] [[chanteuse\|chanteuse]], singing the original Russian version of the song that became "[[Those Were the Days (song)\|Those were the Days]]", which became a hit record for [[Mary Hopkin\|Mary Hopkin]].

	== Cast ==		== Cast ==

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	\| director = [[Gordon Parry (film director)\|Gordon Parry]]		\| director = [[w:Gordon Parry (film director)\|Gordon Parry]]
	\| screenplay = [[Anatole de Grunwald]]		\| screenplay = [[w:Anatole de Grunwald\|Anatole de Grunwald]]
	\| story =		\| story =
	\| based_on =		\| based_on =
	\| producer = Anatole de Grunwald<br>[[John Woolf (producer)\|John Woolf]]		\| producer = Anatole de Grunwald<br>[[w:John Woolf (producer)\|John Woolf]]
	\| starring = [[Alastair Sim]]<br>[[Ronald Shiner]]<br>[[Claire Bloom]]<br>[[Margaret Rutherford]]<br>[[Claude Dauphin (actor)\|Claude Dauphin]]<br>[[Jimmy Edwards]]<br>		\| starring = [[Alastair Sim]]<br>[[Ronald Shiner]]<br>[[w:Claire Bloom\|Claire Bloom]]<br>[[Margaret Rutherford]]<br>[[w:Claude Dauphin (actor)\|Claude Dauphin]]<br>[[Jimmy Edwards]]<br>
	\| narrator =		\| narrator =
	\| cinematography = Gordon Lang		\| cinematography = Gordon Lang
	\| editing = [[Geoffrey Foot (film editor)\|Geoffrey Foot]]		\| editing = [[w:Geoffrey Foot (film editor)\|Geoffrey Foot]]
	\| music = [[Joseph Kosma]]		\| music = [[w:Joseph Kosma\|Joseph Kosma]]
	\| studio = [[Romulus Films]]		\| studio = [[w:Romulus Films\|Romulus Films]]
	\| distributor =		\| distributor =
	\| released = 1953		\| released = 1953
	\| runtime = 102 min		\| runtime = 102 min
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	'''''Innocents in Paris''''' is a 1953 British-French [[international co-production]] [[comedy film]] produced by [[Romulus Films]], directed by [[Gordon Parry (film director)\|Gordon Parry]] and starring [[Alastair Sim]], [[Ronald Shiner]], [[Claire Bloom]], [[Margaret Rutherford]], [[Claude Dauphin (actor)\|Claude Dauphin]], and [[Jimmy Edwards]], and also featuring [[James Copeland (actor)\|James Copeland]].<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044749/ Innocents in Paris (1953) - IMDb]</ref> 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''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090114021131/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/37612 Innocents in Paris - BFI]</ref>		'''''Innocents in Paris''''' is a 1953 British-French [[w:international co-production\|international co-production]] [[w:comedy film\|comedy film]] produced by [[w:Romulus Films\|Romulus Films]], directed by [[w:Gordon Parry (film director)\|Gordon Parry]] and starring [[Alastair Sim]], [[Ronald Shiner]], [[w:Claire Bloom\|Claire Bloom]], [[Margaret Rutherford]], [[w:Claude Dauphin (actor)\|Claude Dauphin]], and [[Jimmy Edwards]], and also featuring [[w:James Copeland (actor)\|James Copeland]].<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044749/ Innocents in Paris (1953) - IMDb]</ref> Popular French comedy actor [[w:Louis de Funès\|Louis de Funès]] appears as a taxi driver, and there are cameo appearances by [[w:Christopher Lee\|Christopher Lee]], [[w:Laurence Harvey\|Laurence Harvey]] and [[Kenneth Williams]]. The writer and producer was [[w:Anatole de Grunwald\|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 ''[[w:The Way to the Stars\|The Way to the Stars]]'', ''[[w:The Winslow Boy\|The Winslow Boy]]'', ''Doctor's Dilemma'', ''Libel'', and ''The Yellow Rolls Royce''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090114021131/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/37612 Innocents in Paris - BFI]</ref>

	==Plot==		==Plot==
	The film is a romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying out from [[Heathrow Airport\|The London Airport]] for a weekend in Paris in 1953 in a [[British European Airways]] [[Airspeed Ambassador]]. An English diplomat (Sim) is on a working trip to obtain an agreement with his Russian counterpart (Illing); a [[Royal Marine]] [[Royal Marines Band Service\|bandsman]] (Shiner) has a night out on the tiles after winning a pool of the French currency held by all the Marines in his band; a young woman (Bloom) finds romance with an older Frenchman (Dauphin) who gives her a tour of Paris; an amateur artist (Rutherford) searches out fellow painters on the [[Rive Gauche\|Left Bank]] and in the [[Louvre]]; a hearty Englishman (Edwards) spends the entire weekend in an English-style pub; and a [[Operation Overlord\|Battle of Normandy]] veteran (Copeland) is an archetypal Scotsman in [[kilt]] and [[Tam o' Shanter (cap)\|Tam o' Shanter]] who finds love with a young French woman (Gérard).		The film is a romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying out from [[w:Heathrow Airport\|The London Airport]] for a weekend in Paris in 1953 in a [[w:British European Airways\|British European Airways]] [[w:Airspeed Ambassador\|Airspeed Ambassador]]. An English diplomat (Sim) is on a working trip to obtain an agreement with his Russian counterpart (Illing); a [[w:Royal Marine\|Royal Marine]] [[w:Royal Marines Band Service\|bandsman]] (Shiner) has a night out on the tiles after winning a pool of the French currency held by all the Marines in his band; a young woman (Bloom) finds romance with an older Frenchman (Dauphin) who gives her a tour of Paris; an amateur artist (Rutherford) searches out fellow painters on the [[w:Rive Gauche\|Left Bank]] and in the [[w:Louvre\|Louvre]]; a hearty Englishman (Edwards) spends the entire weekend in an English-style pub; and a [[w:Operation Overlord\|Battle of Normandy]] veteran (Copeland) is an archetypal Scotsman in [[w:kilt\|kilt]] and [[w:Tam o' Shanter (cap)\|Tam o' Shanter]] who finds love with a young French woman (Gérard).

	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, [[Foreign exchange controls\|Britons were allowed to take only £25 out of the country]],<ref>{{cite web\|title=The U.K. exchange control: a short history\|url=https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/1967/q3/the-uk-exchange-control-a-short-history\|website=Bank of England\|access-date=11 October 2020}}</ref> as £5 British cash and [[traveller's cheques]], and there are several scenes showing how the travellers dealt with this. The film also features a Russian nightclub (of which there were several in Paris at the time), with Ludmila Lopato, a Russian [[tzigane]] [[chanteuse]], singing the original Russian version of the song that became "[[Those Were the Days (song)\|Those were the Days]]", which became a hit record for [[Mary Hopkin]].		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, [[w:Foreign exchange controls\|Britons were allowed to take only £25 out of the country]],<ref>{{cite web\|title=The U.K. exchange control: a short history\|url=https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/1967/q3/the-uk-exchange-control-a-short-history\|website=Bank of England\|access-date=11 October 2020}}</ref> as £5 British cash and [[w:traveller's cheques\|traveller's cheques]], and there are several scenes showing how the travellers dealt with this. The film also features a Russian nightclub (of which there were several in Paris at the time), with Ludmila Lopato, a Russian [[w:tzigane\|tzigane]] [[w:chanteuse\|chanteuse]], singing the original Russian version of the song that became "[[w:Those Were the Days (song)\|Those were the Days]]", which became a hit record for [[w:Mary Hopkin\|Mary Hopkin]].

	== Cast ==		== Cast ==
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{{short description|1953 film by Gordon Parry}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=May 2016}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Innocents in Paris
| image = Iiparispos.jpg
| image_size =
| alt =
| border =
| caption =
| director = [[Gordon Parry (film director)|Gordon Parry]]
| screenplay = [[Anatole de Grunwald]]
| story =
| based_on =
| producer = Anatole de Grunwald [[John Woolf (producer)|John Woolf]]
| starring = [[Alastair Sim]] [[Ronald Shiner]] [[Claire Bloom]] [[Margaret Rutherford]] [[Claude Dauphin (actor)|Claude Dauphin]] [[Jimmy Edwards]] 
| narrator =
| cinematography = Gordon Lang
| editing = [[Geoffrey Foot (film editor)|Geoffrey Foot]]
| music = [[Joseph Kosma]]
| studio = [[Romulus Films]]
| distributor =
| released = 1953
| runtime = 102 min
| country = [[United Kingdom]]
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
}}
'''''Innocents in Paris''''' is a 1953 British-French [[international co-production]] [[comedy film]] produced by [[Romulus Films]], directed by [[Gordon Parry (film director)|Gordon Parry]] and starring [[Alastair Sim]], [[Ronald Shiner]], [[Claire Bloom]], [[Margaret Rutherford]], [[Claude Dauphin (actor)|Claude Dauphin]], and [[Jimmy Edwards]], and also featuring [[James Copeland (actor)|James Copeland]].<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044749/ Innocents in Paris (1953) - IMDb]</ref> 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''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090114021131/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/37612 Innocents in Paris - BFI]</ref>

==Plot==
The film is a romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying out from [[Heathrow Airport|The London Airport]] for a weekend in Paris in 1953 in a [[British European Airways]] [[Airspeed Ambassador]]. An English diplomat (Sim) is on a working trip to obtain an agreement with his Russian counterpart (Illing); a [[Royal Marine]] [[Royal Marines Band Service|bandsman]] (Shiner) has a night out on the tiles after winning a pool of the French currency held by all the Marines in his band; a young woman (Bloom) finds romance with an older Frenchman (Dauphin) who gives her a tour of Paris; an amateur artist (Rutherford) searches out fellow painters on the [[Rive Gauche|Left Bank]] and in the [[Louvre]]; a hearty Englishman (Edwards) spends the entire weekend in an English-style pub; and a [[Operation Overlord|Battle of Normandy]] veteran (Copeland) is an archetypal Scotsman in [[kilt]] and [[Tam o' Shanter (cap)|Tam o' Shanter]] who finds love with a young French woman (Gérard).

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, [[Foreign exchange controls|Britons were allowed to take only £25 out of the country]],<ref>{{cite web|title=The U.K. exchange control: a short history|url=https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/1967/q3/the-uk-exchange-control-a-short-history|website=Bank of England|access-date=11 October 2020}}</ref> as £5 British cash and [[traveller's cheques]], and there are several scenes showing how the travellers dealt with this. The film also features a Russian nightclub (of which there were several in Paris at the time), with Ludmila Lopato, a Russian [[tzigane]] [[chanteuse]], singing the original Russian version of the song that became "[[Those Were the Days (song)|Those were the Days]]", which became a hit record for [[Mary Hopkin]].

== Cast ==
* [[Alastair Sim]]: Sir Norman Baker
* [[Ronald Shiner]]: Dicky Bird
* [[Claire Bloom]]: Susan Robbins
* [[Margaret Rutherford]]: Gwladys Inglott
* [[Claude Dauphin (actor)|Claude Dauphin]]: Max de Lorne
* [[Jimmy Edwards]]: Captain George Stilton
* [[Mara Lane]]: Gloria Delaney
* [[James Copeland (actor)|James Copeland]]: Andy MacGrégor "L'Écossais"
* [[Gaby Bruyère]]: Josette
* [[Monique Gérard]]: Raymonde
* [[Peter Illing]]: Panitov
* [[Colin Gordon]]: Customs officer
* [[Kenneth Kove]]: Bickerstaff
* [[Frank Muir]]: Stilton's friend
* [[Philip Stainton]]: Nobby Clarke
* [[Peter Jones (actor)|Peter Jones]]: Langton
* [[Stringer Davis]]: Arbuthnot
* [[Richard Wattis]]: Wilkinson, Sir Norman Baker's secretary
* [[Royal Marines Band Service|The Band of Plymouth Group Royal Marines]]
* [[Louis de Funès]]: Célestin
* [[Albert Dinan]]: Louvre doorman
* [[Jean Richard (actor)|Jean Richard]]
* [[Maurice Baquet]]
* Ludmilla Lopato: Chanteuse
* [[Georgette Anys]]: Madame Célestin
* Polycarpe Pavloff
* Irène de Strozzi
* [[Grégoire Aslan]]: Carpet seller
* The Can-Can Dancers from The Moulin Rouge, Paris

;Uncredited (in alphabetical order)
* [[Reginald Beckwith]]: Photographer
* [[Joan Benham]]: Receptionist
* [[Max Dalban]]: Butcher
* [[Laurence Harvey]]: François
* [[Hamilton Keene]]: Reporter
* [[Christopher Lee]]: Lieutenant Whitlock
* [[Andreas Malandrinos]]: French customs officer
* [[Bill Shine (actor)|Bill Shine]]: Customs officer
* [[Toke Townley]]: Airport porter
* [[Kenneth Williams]]: Window dresser at London Airport

==References==
<references/>

{{Gordon Parry}}

[[Category:1953 films]]
[[Category:1953 comedy films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Gordon Parry]]
[[Category:Films set in Paris]]
[[Category:Films shot in Paris]]
[[Category:British comedy films]]
[[Category:Films with screenplays by Anatole de Grunwald]]
[[Category:Films produced by Anatole de Grunwald]]
[[Category:British black-and-white films]]
[[Category:Films scored by Joseph Kosma]]
[[Category:Films shot at Station Road Studios, Elstree]]
[[Category:1950s English-language films]]
[[Category:1950s British films]]