We're No Angels (1955)
- Directed by
- Michael Curtiz
- Genre
- comedy film, crime film, Christmas film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 7.2 of 10 from 212 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Three convicts escape from Devil's Island and take shelter at a family's store. They plan to rob the family but end up helping them instead.
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What happens
We're No Angels is a 1955 American Christmas comedy film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Aldo Ray, Joan Bennett, Basil Rathbone, Leo G. Carroll, and Gloria Talbott. Shot in both VistaVision and Technicolor, the film was a Paramount Pictures release. The screenplay was written by Ranald MacDougall, based on the French play La Cuisine Des Anges by Albert Husson. Husson's play had been adapted into the successful Broadway play My Three Angels by Samuel and Bella Spewack, but the film purported to be based on the Husson original rather than the Spewacks' adaptation. The Spewacks sued Paramount four months after the film was released. As Howard Thompson wrote in the New York Times review of the Curtiz film, "Oddly enough, the new Paramount comedy, We're No Angels, gives sole credit to the Gallic original, then stalks the Spewacks almost scene by scene, without, alas, most of the fun." Mary Grant designed the film's costumes. The film is set on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, 1895. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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