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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 2600
Released: September 27, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
After a prison escape, three convicts attempt to steal from a local store, only to find themselves befriending the store owner's family and attractive daughter.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: NR
Release Date: 27-SEP-2005
Media Type: DVD
Description of We're No Angels:
Audiences have always loved the spectacle of tough guys going soft and gooey, and We're No Angels adds the extra sweetener of Yuletide to its mix. The action takes place on Devil's Island, the tropical backwater where the notorious French prison was located. Three convicts, played by Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, and Peter Ustinov, have escaped, and wait only for a ship to leave the next day. In the meantime, they become involved in the financial woes of an island shopkeeper (Leo G. Carroll) and his wife (Joan Bennett) and daughter, whose business is in danger from a rich, nasty relative (Basil Rathbone). Despite the threat of black comedy, especially in the form of a poisonous viper (which Ray carries around in a demure bamboo case), broad cuteness tends to rule the day. While it's not on the list of essential Bogart performances, Bogie does seem to be enjoying himself, and the puckish Ustinov savors his lines like a cow chewing grass. The stage origins of the scenario are all too obvious, and probably contribute to the pokey pacing (Michael Curtiz, who guided Bogart in Casablanca, was perhaps not the ideal choice for this kind of winsome comedy). This 1955 film looks good in comparison to the loose, labored 1989 remake with Robert De Niro and Sean Penn. --Robert Horton
We're No Angels Reviews:
Bogart Does Comedy 
2008-10-14 - Basil Rathbone: His life and his films
Shadow Watcher
Nobody Drowns in Mineral Lake
Humphrey Bogart made very few comedies during his long career, but those that he did appear in were quite entertaining.
WE'RE NO ANGELS (1955) is a delicious black comedy, adapted by Ranald MacDougall from MY THREE ANGELS, a popular French play by Albert Husson, and directed by Michael Curtiz (CASABLANCA).
In it, Bogart, Peter Ustinov and Aldo Ray play three convicts who have escaped from the prison on Devil's Island on Christmas Eve.
While planning their departure from the island itself, they take refuge in a store run by a kind couple (Leo G. Carroll and Joan Bennett), who are being terrorized by Carroll's nasty uncle (Basil Rathbone), the store's actual owner. Bogart and his two companions, with the help of their poisonous pet snake, decide to improve the couple's lives by seeing that ol' Basil and his equally villainous nephew don't bother them any longer.
No serious attempt has been made to disguise this very funny film's stage origins.
- Michael B. Druxman, author of ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (available December 2008)
We're no Angels
2008-08-30 - This is one of my favorite movies. It is a family movie, good to watch around christmas. In this movie Bogart is different from his usual tough guy movies. Peter Ustinov is wonderful as always, so are Aldo Ray and Joan Bennett.
All around a great movie, lots of fun!
Bogart can be funny
2008-05-11 - This comedy is sentimental, sad and funny. Bogart expresses considerable ironic humor, attacking greed and commercialism while responding to people's warmth and kindness. The other characters performed quite well, including the hero of the story, a smnall snake. I enjoyed every minute of it.
Good flic
2008-05-07 - Glad to find this very entertaining old movie on DVD and much enjoyed since. It came in excellent condition and in a timely manner.
Truly Entertaining
2008-03-22 - One of Boggie's most entertaining films, it follows three escaped convicts from Devil's Island played by Bogart, Aldo Rey and Peter Ustinov. Set at christmas time, the three esscapees find there way into shop to steal clothes and provisions only to be drawn into the shop keeper and his families lives. Truly entertaining, it will make you feel good.
