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Innocents in Paris (1953)

Innocents in Paris poster
Directed by
Gordon Parry
Genre
comedy film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 42m
Rated
PG
Rating
5.2 of 10 from 17 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of people from Paris and London find themselves in each other's cities for a short visit. The film follows their amusing encounters and cultural misunderstandings.

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What happens

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. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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