in advance please forgive my spelling Harvey destroyed my home all my computers are gone and all I have is my smartphone so please be patient with me this is a no relation any kind of modern movie this is a Humphrey Bogart movie just to put it in its class and place I ran across this movie on on Turner Classic Movies the first time I saw it there I decided that I needed to own it so I've been on the lookout for it ever since it popped up on Amazon about 3-4 months ago and I looked at it and I passed on it and I looked at it and I passed on it and when I noticed that it was an add-on for $4.95 I jumped on it it arrived on time i n t a c t along with one other title that I ordered I decided to watch this one the first please let me say what kept me from ordering We're No Angels was hoping that somebody would put it on Blu-ray. Blu-ray has a nasty habit of missing some of the best movies and putting nonsense in release like Ernest Goes to Camp and while I have nothing against that movie it's certainly not high enough caliber to consider a release on Blu-ray no offense if you're a fan, still waiting for War of the Worlds to show up on Blu-ray or this island Earth those sorts of Classics are certainly worth putting on Blu-ray enough about that this movie the picture quality first let me tell you is the best picture quality I've seen on a DVD it is just excellent detail color balance and Lighting perfectly done just take for instance there's a lot of canvas and burlap bags in this movie noticing on the edges you can see the individual threads fraying detail uncharacteristic of any DVD just very very very clean. The most devout of audio and video file will be very pleased with this movie no it is not stereo or surround sound at all but it is Dolby Digital and it is clean so very very clean no scratches no hissing or pops like it has been remastered but nowhere on the package does it say it has been but it must have but this is a very old movie some attention has been paid I guarantee it because it's just too clean to have been a simple film transfer someone did some cleanup secondly let me tell you this movie was produced in color it is Paramount production and so it was released in color Paramount didn't do much black and white they didn't release the kind of movie that they didn't expect to make money like Warner did so much I don't know how it did at the box office but I can tell you this movie will make you laugh touch your heart and just make you feel good it is so funny the set on Devil's Island using a lot of stage mats and they're not really all that well done but but please believe me you won't mind and it won't matter with the stars that are in this movie such as Humphrey Bogart Peter Ustinov and Aldo Ray just for starts that's enough right there full stop,, and yet they're even more stars in this movie like the Sherlock Holmes character Basil Rathbone Rathbone in a role that he doesn't usually play a grasping scrooge-like character that well I could tell you but that would be a spoilers so I won't say anything else let's just say that you'll be satisfied with this movie from beginning to end if you're a Humphrey Bogart fan this is a must because you'll get to see bogey sing and he doesn't do too bad a job of it although I wouldn't ask him to quit his day job this is an excellent movie if you like Bogart and oh by the way it's set at Christmas time in the 1800's long before consumerism was a thing the way they treated Christmas is something we can all take a lesson from The Joy was pure and unadulterated but that doesn't mean this is strictly a Christmas movie you can watch it the the year round I do I've already seen it twice and I intend to see it again soon it's just that kind of movie a guilty pleasure has Robert Osborne used to say rest his soul thank you for taking the time to read the review I hope it helps one more thing I intend to enter a copy of a picture that I took directly from my television I certify and promise I make no edits to the picture whatsoever it is what I took off my television these transfers tend to be a little blue heavy but the movie is not so please don't judge it in that way strictly watch it on the luminance quality please color balance is a little off but only in my picture not on the transfer