DVD : We're No Angels

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 9781415713518
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1415713510
Label: Paramount
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageFrenchOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Paramount
MPN: PARD054144D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 27, 2005
Running Time: 105 minutes
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 1955

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Three convicts are plotting their escape from devils island. Fate intervenes when they hide out with the kindly but inept felix & his family. After resolving felixs problems the convicts return to prison convinced the world is much too wicked. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 09/27/2005 Starring: Humphrey Bogart Peter Ustinov Run time: 105 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Michael Curtiz

Amazon.com:
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

Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - My Favorite Christmas Movie
Every year, this is my special Christmas movie and each year I introduce more people to it. From children to 80-somethings, they’ve all enjoyed it tremendously. This next year, I plan to give this as birthday presents.

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - we’re no angels/h. bogart
I can’t think of a bogart movie collection without this movie. All actors should attain this level of professionalism.

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - 3.5 stars
After watching the 1989 version, I decided I needed the original. Honestly, I have no idea why they kept the title for the newer movie, because the two are not related at all. I’m one of the minority, in that I didn’t like this one as well.

Three convicts on Devil’s Island escape from the prison and decide to steal some supplies from a local shop before stowing away on a ship. Instead, they end up falling for the family who owns the shop, and helping them out.

It’s a very … Read More

Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - The Devil’s Island Comedy
This film begins in Devils’s Island in 1895. Three prisoners have escaped. Are they hiding in plain sight? Can they escape on a boat back to France? Can they find passports and money? The convicts meet the shop owner, and we learn about them. Cayenne is hot and humid at Christmas, and the rest of the time. Will the daughter of the shopowner find true love and happiness? Will a letter bring shocking bad news? The story mixes comedy with drama. [Does this film seem dated?] Will unexpected visitors arrive … Read More

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Unique, Wonderful Christmas Fun
I agree with all the other folks who give “We’re

No Angels” five stars. With top to bottom great

performances by a stellar cast and a script that

is chock-a-block with witty lines, WNA is a

winner all the way. I too had trouble locating

it for a number of years but now own it on both

VHS and DVD. We watch it every Christmas (some-

times a couple of times) and revel it. It’s one

of those movies that reveals more pleasures with

each viewing. Felix: … Read More