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 Posted: 03/10/04 - 17:02 Post subject: Movie Review: The Trouble with Angels (1966)
A film by Ida Lupino
“The Trouble with Angels” is a very charming movie and it remains one of my favorites. The story is simple, but sweet. It takes place at the St. Francis Academy for Girls, where Mary Clancy (Hayley Mills) and Rachel Devery (June Harding) are enrolling as students. This is a parochial school run by nuns and is also the Mother House of their order. The school is run by the Mother Superior (Rosalind Russell). Mary and Rachel become fast friends on the train ride to the school and when they arrive they are inseparable. They love to pull pranks and just try to have a good time and get by for as long as they have to be at that school. Mother Superior tries to keep the girls in line and run the school as well as she can.
As the movie progresses, we get to see how Mary reacts to the school and how she grows. The film quickly covers several years of their education but it doesn’t feel as if it is jumping around too much. We see the transformation of Mary Clancy and while the ending comes as a little bit of a surprise, it really shouldn’t.
“The Trouble with Angels” is a wonderful, good-hearted movie that is perfect for the whole family. There are complaints that this DVD is in the pan and scan format rather than the widescreen OAR that it should be in, but knowing that that is the only format available we have to understand that this is likely the only opportunity to own “The Trouble with Angels” that we will have. The purist in me wants the widescreen, but the rest of my just loves this movie and is glad to have it available at all
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Posted: 03/21/04 - 11:49 Post subject:
This movie was apparently filmed close to where I live. In fact, if any of you PA folk run the Ambler Y race, you'll pass the site on the way. The church burned down almost 20 years ago.
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Posted: 03/21/04 - 14:00 Post subject:
We've got this movie in our collection. The only part that I can really remember is when the girls school goes to a dance with the boys school (and Van Johnson is the priest).
There are other bits and pieces that I can recall, but not enough to make a good review. I remember enough to say that this movie is good wholesome family fun.
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Posted: 03/22/04 - 09:56 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | We've got this movie in our collection. The only part that I can really remember is when the girls school goes to a dance with the boys school (and Van Johnson is the priest).
There are other bits and pieces that I can recall, but not enough to make a good review. I remember enough to say that this movie is good wholesome family fun. |
You might be thinking of a different movie. No dance. 
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Posted: 03/22/04 - 10:03 Post subject:
| Pug wrote: | | You might be thinking of a different movie. No dance. |
You're right. I was thinking of Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows (1968) which also stars Rosalind Russell.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0063800/
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Posted: 03/22/04 - 10:08 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | Pug wrote: | | You might be thinking of a different movie. No dance. |
You're right. I was thinking of Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows (1968) which also stars Rosalind Russell.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0063800/ |
It's in my Netflix queue. I wish Hayley Mills came back from that one, but as far as i know the only returning kid was the girl who played Marvel Ann.
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