Innocent Sinners is a 1958 British black and white film directed by Philip Leacock and starring Flora Robson, David Kossoff and Barbara Mullen.

[2] Olivia Chesney is too ill to leave her home in a post-war London square, but waves out of her window to various neighbours.

These include Lovejoy, who is a neglected young girl who finds solace in the secret garden which she creates on a bomb site.

Mr Vincent buys two special plates to serve dessert on, but his wife chastises him, as they have bills to pay.

The woman gives Lovejoy a shilling in the church and is impressed when she puts it straight into the candle box as part of her penance.

On a rainy night Tip brings Lovejoy and a small boy, Sparkey, to the park to steal more earth.

Olivia regrets having made little use of her life, and decides to write a will setting up a trust to open a new restaurant in the West End, to be run by the Vincents, on condition they look after Lovejoy.

Neil Paterson wrote the script, which Hugh Stewart said "was very difficult because Rumer Godden’s story was very gossamer, and I was trying to get some bones in it.

"[5] Stewart said "It was the one film I made that got universally good notices, it got prizes, and yet it died a death — the biggest disaster I ever had...

"[3] Sight and Sound called it "a well-meaning, uneven and somewhat meandering film" where "a string of sub-plots, although relevant, never quite come coherently together."

The weakest aspect of the film, though, is its inability to bring to life its background—the dirty, overcrowded London suburb, where busy working-class streets adjoin an upper-class area of tree-lined walks and squares.