‘We’re No Angels’: O Hilarious Night

When good-heartedness appears in the form of shopkeeper and his family, a forger and his prisoner pals do some good for once in their lives.

(L–R) Albert (Aldo Ray), Joseph (Humphrey Bogart), and Jules (Peter Ustinov), in “We’re No Angels.” Paramount

NR | 1 h 46 min | Comedy | 1955

Humphrey Bogart was born on Dec. 25. After nearly 25 years of playing a poker-faced tough guy, he’d probably been itching for some fun. So near the end of his career, he tried his hand at playing a softie. He teamed up one last time with trusted director Michael Curtiz and picked a screenplay about crooks turning compassionate on Christmas Eve that proved too riotous to resist.