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Director:
Michael Curtiz
Writers:
Albert Husson (play)
Ranald MacDougall (writer)
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Release Date:
23 September 1955 (Japan) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Plot:
In Christmas, three prisoners - Joseph, Albert and Jules - escape from the Devil Island to a French small coastal town... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
Intelligent, Hilarious, Charming. more (44 total)

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Angels' Cooking (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
106 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | French
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
UK:U | Finland:S | Sweden:15

Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Continuity: 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. more
Quotes:
Albert: Tell him there's a deadly poisonous snake inside of the cage. Tell him.
Joseph: [Leaves the room. Re-enters a few seconds later]
Albert: You didn't tell him.
Joseph: He knows already.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in 'White Christmas': A Look Back with Rosemary Clooney (2000) (V) more
Soundtrack:
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18 out of 21 people found the following comment useful.
Intelligent, Hilarious, Charming., 7 September 1999
Author: Yah-Yah

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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