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We're No Angels (1955 film)

We're No Angels
We're No Angels - 1955 - poster.png
Original movie poster
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Produced by Pat Duggan
Written by My Three Angels
1953 play
Samuel and Bella Spewack
Screenplay by Ranald MacDougall
Based on La Cuisine Des Anges
1952 play
by Albert Husson
Starring Humphrey Bogart
Aldo Ray
Peter Ustinov
Music by Frederick Hollander
Cinematography Loyal Griggs
Edited by Arthur P. Schmidt
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date
  • July 7, 1955 (1955-07-07)
Running time
106 min.
Country United States
Language English
French
Box office $3 million (US)

We're No Angels is a 1955 Christmas comedy film starring an ensemble cast of Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Aldo Ray, Joan Bennett, Basil Rathbone, and Leo G. Carroll. Shot in both VistaVision and Technicolor, the Paramount Studios production was directed by Michael Curtiz, who had directed Bogart in Casablanca when both were under contract to Warner Brothers. It is one of Bogart's rare comedies.

The screenplay was written by Ranald MacDougall, based on the play My Three Angels by Samuel and Bella Spewack, which itself was based upon the French play La Cuisine Des Anges by Albert Husson. Mary Grant designed the film's costumes.

Three convicts – Joseph, Albert and Jules – escape from prison on Devil's Island just before Christmas and arrive at a nearby French colonial town. They go to a store managed by the Ducotel family, the only one to give supplies on credit. While there, they notice its roof is leaking, and offer to fix it. They do not actually intend to, but decide to remain there until nightfall, when they will steal clothes and supplies and escape on a ship waiting in the harbor. As they wait, they find that the small family of Felix, Amelie, and daughter Isabelle, is in financial distress and offer their services to hide the trio's all-too-sinister ruse. Joseph even gets to work conning people and falsifying records to make the store prosperous. However, the three felons begin to have a change of heart after they fix a delicious Christmas dinner for the Ducotels made mostly of stolen items.


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