My Three Angels (1962 TV movie)

My Three Angels
Directed by	Alan Burke
Written by	Noel Robinson
Based on	play My Three Angels by Samuel and Bella Spewack
Starring	Brigid Lenihan
Production company	ABC
Release date	19 December 1962
Running time	75 mins
Country	Australia
Language	English

My Three Angels is a 1962 Australian TV adaptation. It was based on the play My Three Angels by Samuel and Bella Spewack which in turn was based on the French play La Cuisine Des Anges by Albert Husson.

On Christmas Eve in French Guyana, Felix and Emillie Ducotel struggle to maintain a small shop and the arrival of Felix's unpleasant cousin, Henri (Owen Weingott). They have a daughter, Marie-Louise (Anna Volksa).

Three convicts (Gordon Chater, Richard Davies, Murray Rose), decide that, as a Christmas gift to the family, they will set everyone's problems to rights.

The show marked the acting debut of swimmer Murray Rose.

The Sydney Morning Herald called it "moderately successful" because it did not manage to treat the material "so whimsically and delicately that its rather dubious morality remains in the realm of fantasy." However he did think that "on its own rather obvious terms it [the production] was efficient enough." The critic added that Murray Rose was "amiable and decorative and obviously did everything the producer had told him to do; but it would be overcharitable to suggest that he did it with any conviction or distinction."

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