The Christmas Angel

About The Christmas Angel

The Christmas Angel (Détresse et charité) is a 1904 French silent film by Georges Méliès, made for his Star Film company. At Christmastime a poor girl is sent into Paris to beg for her sick mother, is chased from the church steps and a bakery, and is given bread and a shawl by a kindly rag-and-bone man, played by Méliès himself, before she collapses in a snowstorm. In this version for American audiences a passing couple in an automobile rescue her and shower her family with gifts. It airs on Starlite TV's Silent Pictures channel (CH 12).