ALASTAIR SIM DOUBLE FEATURE #2

INNOCENTS IN PARIS

Any film that boasts the likes of Alistair Sim, Margaret Rutherford and Claire Bloom --as does Innocents in Paris - is already halfway home. A selection of passengers catch the plane from London for an early 1950's weekend in Paris. First we see the efforts by British diplomat Alastair Sim to loosen up Soviet-agent Peter Illing long enough to forge an economic plan between Russia and England. Then we watch as dotty artist Margaret Rutherford purchases a copy of the Mona Lisa. Next we see British officer Jimmy Edwards go off on a toot in a Parisian bistro. The next vignette involves impressionable Claire Bloom, who is swept off her feet by a local rake (the human variety, not the garden implement).

GORDIE

Concerned about his small stature, a young Scottish boy applies for a mail-order body building course, successfully gaining both height and strength. At the age of 21, he displays a talent for hammer-throwing, and is selected to represent Britain in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia