We're No Angels (1955 film)

We're No Angels
Theatrical release poster
Directed byMichael Curtiz
Screenplay byRanald MacDougall
Based onLa Cuisine Des Anges
by Albert Husson
Produced byPat Duggan
StarringHumphrey Bogart
Aldo Ray
Peter Ustinov
CinematographyLoyal Griggs
Edited byArthur P. Schmidt
Music byFrederick Hollander
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • July 7, 1955 (1955-07-07)
Running time
106 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesEnglish
French
Box office$3 million (US/Canada rentals)

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 "H.H.T." 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.