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Innocents In Paris

Innocents In Paris

  • 1953 film

Comic tale following a disparate group of British travellers in Paris over the course of a single weekend. Stars Alastair Sim, Ronald Shiner, Claire Bloom, Margaret Rutherford, Claude Dauphin and more.

Win classic comedy Innocents In Paris

Innocents In Paris. Gwladys Inglott (Margaret Rutherford). Copyright: STUDIOCANAL

Released in 1953, Innocents In Paris is a romantic comedy starring some of British cinema's all-time greats. Alastair Sim leads the cast, with Jimmy Edwards, Margaret Rutherford, Ronald Shiner, Christopher Lee and Kenneth Williams also appearing in the screen classic.

Just shy of its 70th birthday, the film has now been comprehensively restored and remastered in HD by owner STUDIOCANAL and is one of the must-own titles in its expanding Vintage Classics Blu-ray/DVD collection. It is now available to order on Blu-ray, DVD and digital download.

It follows as an assortment of British tourists fly away for a wild and wonderful weekend in Paris, where each character finds that the city welcomes them and changes their lives in different ways, often with hilarious results.

Innocents In Paris. Image shows from L to R: Waiter in Russian Restaurant (Polycarpe Pavloff), Sir Norman Barker (Alastair Sim). Copyright: STUDIOCANAL

An English diplomat (Sim) is on a working trip to obtain an agreement with his Russian counterpart; a Royal Marine 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 (Claire Bloom) is wined and dined by an older Parisian man (Claude Dauphin) who gives her a tour of Paris; an amateur artist (Margaret Rutherford) searches out fellow painters on the Left Bank and in the Louvre; a hearty Englishman (Edwards) spends the entire weekend in an English-style pub; an archetypal Scotsman and Battle of Normandy veteran (James Copeland) finds love with a young French woman.

Also including a photo gallery and new interview with French journalist Agnès Poirier about the film on its physical versions, the new restoration will be released on DVD, Blu-ray, and as a digital download, on 2nd May 2022. Pre-order at Amazon

To see the film in its very best possible quality you'll need the full Blu-ray experience, and we have two copies on this high definition format to give away.

Terms & conditions

This competition is open to UK residents only. One entry per household. The competition closes 23:59, 16th May 2022. The winners will be contacted by email and will have 3 days to respond and accept the prize. Failure to accept the prize in the allocated time will result in a new winner being selected.

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