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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 1498
Released: September 27, 2005 |
| Our Price: $9.11 |
| Used Price: $8.49 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
In WE’RE NO ANGLES, three convicts escape from Devil's Island and arrive at a nearby French colonial town. Their plan to steal supplies and clothing from the local store is ruined after they take a liking to the store’s owner, especially his attractive daughter.
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:
Best Christmas film 
2009-09-11 - This is the best Christmas movie ever. we have a tradition of watching it every Christmas Eve. I highly recommend it.
we're no angles
2009-04-13 - This is one of those movies that from the opening to the end, you smile, and feel this long forgotton warmth that reminds us there is good in EVERYBODY. I watched this movie when i was a little girl, and couldent belive Amazon carried it! Was i thrilled to get it. Buy it, watch it, love it, and find yourself watching it agian!!
Convicts and Christmas
2009-03-11 - Brilliant and warm movie set on Devil's Island and starring Bogart, Aldo Ray and Peter Ustinov.....and a tiny pretty snake in a box.
My favorite Christmas movie of all time.
The DVD is beautiful and I look forward to seeing it over and over again with friends and family.
We're No Angles
2009-03-08 - This is an older movie with some very subtle comedy by today's standards. The combination of early Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov and Aldo Ray works well and makes the movie very enjoyable.
We're no Angels 
2009-03-02 - The story was clever, the actors did a good job and we enjoyed the film very much. It gave us a laugh which we are always looking for in a film.
