Innocents In Paris is several tales interwoven of a few British subjects going over
the Channel on a weekend jaunt to gay Paree. For some like stuffy British diplomat Alastair Sim it's business as he's at a European economic conference as
the British delegate. Pleasure almost gets forced on him as he arranges a back
channel meeting with Russian delegate Peter Illing who shows Sim the pleasures
of vodka and champagne and a few other things that Paris offers. They even
get a little business done.
Margaret Rutherford is just Margaret Rutherford as an eccentric painter who
for a weekend does a Gene Kelly as she paints and sells her product in the
streets of Montmartre.
Romance in this film is handled by young Claire Bloom who gets some heavy
wooing by Claude Dauphin. That one doesn't go quite on course, still it's a
once in a lifetime experience.
That and a few others make Innocents In Paris a delightful experience and a
look at post World War 2 Paris. It still holds up well because the experiences
are eternal.
