{"id":41547,"date":"2026-04-27T07:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41547"},"modified":"2026-04-26T22:41:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T02:41:43","slug":"were-no-angels-1955-directed-by-michael-curtiz-starring-humphrey-bogart-aldo-ray-and-peter-ustinov-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41547","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We&#8217;re No Angels&#8221; (1955) directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray and Peter Ustinov \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z042726zview_wna.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"389\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><i>We&#8217;re No Angels <\/i><\/b>(1955)<\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Michael Curtiz<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Ranald MacDougall; <\/strong>based on <em>La Cuisine Des Anges<\/em> by <strong>Albert Husson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: \u00a0<strong>Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov, Joan Bennett, Basil Rathbone, Gloria Talbott <\/strong>and<strong> Leo G. Carroll.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em>\u00a0 A strangler&#8230; A swindler&#8230; A safecracker&#8230; Yet you&#8217;ll love them!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Joseph, a thief, along with Albert and Jules who are murderers escape from the Devil&#8217;s Island French Prison.\u00a0 They make it to a small town where they plan to steal enough funds to make it aboard a ship for their final escape.<\/p>\n<p>The convicts decide to go into a store, steal clothes and money and make their getaway.\u00a0 Once in the store they discover that the store is failing.\u00a0 The nice family running the store is on the verge of losing everything.\u00a0 Against their better judgment the three convicts decide to stay at the store until nightfall.\u00a0 While there the boys decide to fix the leaking roof&#8230; help with sales&#8230; cook the family a nice dinner and more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The longer Joseph, Albert and Jules stay the less likely they are to getaway.\u00a0 The clock is ticking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>We&#8217;re No Angels<\/em> is based on the French play<em> La cuisine des anges<\/em> (<em>The Angels&#8217; Kitchen<\/em>) by Albert Husson.\u00a0 Interestingly enough, there was a Broadway play, <em>My Three Angels<\/em> by Sam and Bella Spewack which was was also based on the French play.\u00a0 The Spewacks sued Paramount because parts of their play were incorporated into the movie without proper permission or payment.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><b><i>We&#8217;re No Angels (1955) <\/i><\/b>rates 3 of 5 stars<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z042726zview_wna2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"272\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re No Angels (1955) Director:\u00a0 Michael Curtiz Screenplay: Ranald MacDougall; based on La Cuisine Des Anges by Albert Husson Stars:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,17,63,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41548,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41547\/revisions\/41548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}