Three Devil's Island escapees hide out in the home of a kindly merchant and repay his kindness by helping him and his family out of several crises.

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At Christmas, three prisoners - Joseph, Albert and Jules - escape from Devil Island to a French small coastal town. They decide to rob a store, to get some money and clothes and travel by ship to another place. They pretend to be there to fix the roof, but pretty soon they realize that the financial condition of the family Ducotel is not good. Andre Tochard, the selfish and mean owner of the establishment, exploits the family Ducotel. The three convicts spend Christmas night with the Ducotels and are so well treated by the family that they decide to help them. Their pet will help them to fix the situation. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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A strangler... A swindler... A safecracker... Yet you'll love them!

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25 November 1955 (West Germany)  »

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Angels' Cooking  »

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$1,685,000 (estimated)
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Was "remade" in 1989 with Robert De Niro and Sean Penn. The two movies only share some common themes. See more »

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When Andre is talking to Felix and Joseph, his left arm is stretched. In the next shot it is folded and leant on his hip. See more »

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[Joseph brings Andre a spiny pineapple on a plate to eat with no utensils]
Andre Trochard: Knife! Fork! How am I supposed to eat that?
Joseph: [matter-of-factly] You eat it like an apple.
[Joseph gives him a look like this is common knowledge]
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Version of We're No Angels (1989) See more »

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Three Angels
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Music by Edward J. Hopkins (hymn tune: "St. Athanasius")
Lyrics by Troy Sanders
Performed by Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Aldo Ray
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Intelligent, Hilarious, Charming.
7 September 1999 | by See all my reviews

Back when I was in college a friend of mine, the only other person I knew who had seen this film, used to recite lines to each other on appropriate occasions. He was a rugby player, a real rough and tumbly sort of guy, and I was a fairly gentle, studious type; we were two, very different types of people. The point behind this is that, while we were both very different, we both found "We're No Angels" to be a superbly executed film.

I recently had a chance to see the film again and it's just as enjoyable as ever. This light-hearted, if somewhat criminal, comedy is warming, family film with an evil streak. It's absolutely fascinating to watch Bogart in a light comedy role, and to see a young(er) Peter Ustinov as a wife-murdering safe-cracker with a heart. And throw in great (if typical) performances by Basil Rathbone and Leo G. Carroll to boot.

But in my mind, the three biggest stars in this film are playwright Albert Hussens, screenwriter Ranald MacDougall, and above all, a surprisingly masterful performance by Aldo Ray. Ray treads the line between being dumb, lovable, trite thug and being a brutal, sociopathic criminal with great resolve. In the end it is his smoothly delivered lines that one remembers above all else.

As for the dialogue, it too treads lines. This is a film for the entire family, yes. But it does have it's randier moments, and all of them are done in such a way that children will not understand the full implications of them (if they do you have no one to blame but yourself). This translates into a "something for everyone" type of film.

Check it out.


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