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- Friday, Jul 25, 2025 11:45am
- Saturday, Jul 26, 2025 4:30pm
- Monday, Jul 28, 2025 12pm
- Tuesday, Jul 29, 2025 4:45pm
Details
After helming the very first VistaVision release with 1954’s WHITE CHRISTMAS, filmmaker Michael Curtiz reunited with his CASABLANCA star Humphrey Bogart a year later for this lighthearted Christmas caper also shot using Paramount’s new de rigueur technology. Bogart is the leader of a rag-tag trio of fugitives (alongside Peter Ustinov and Aldo Ray) from the Devil’s Island prison off the coast of French Guiana. Docking at the nearby town of Cayenne on Christmas Eve, the convicts meet a down-on-his-luck shopkeeper (Leo G. Carroll) and offer to help his failing business in exchange for a place to stay. Con men by trade, they are natural salespeople and help the shop turn a profit for the first time in ages. But when the shop’s ruthless owner (Basil Rathbone) returns, the convicts will have to face the fact that the outside world might just be more cruel than prison. DIR Michael Curtiz; SCR Ranald MacDougall, from the play “La Cuisine Des Anges” by Albert Husson; PROD Pat Duggan. U.S., 1955, color, 106 min. NOT RATED
