Where Angels Go Trouble Follows! (1968)

Director:

James Neilson

Writers:

Blanche Hanalis (written by)
Jane Trahey (characters creator)

Release Date:

6 January 1969 (Denmark)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

Something new is happening to those Teen-Angels of St. Francis.

Plot:

An old-line Mother Superior is challenged by a modern young nun when they take the girls of St. Francis Academy on a bus trip across the U.S.A.

Plot Keywords:

Bus | Mother Superior | Trip | Nun | Catholic School

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Rosalind Russell	...	Mother Superior (Rev. Mother)
Stella Stevens	...	Sister George
Binnie Barnes	...	Sister Celestine
Mary Wickes	...	Sister Clarissa
Dolores Sutton	...	Sister Rose Marie
Milton Berle	...	The Movie Director: The 'In' Group
Arthur Godfrey	...	The Bishop: The 'In' Group
Van Johnson	...	Father Chase: The 'In' Group
Robert Taylor	...	Mr. Farriday - The 'In' Group
Susan Saint James	...	Rosabelle
Barbara Hunter	...	Marvel Ann
Alice Rawlings	...	Patty
Hilary Thompson	...	Hilarie (as Hilarie Thompson)
Devon Douglas	...	Devon
Ellen Moss	...	Tanya

Runtime:

USA:93 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:U | USA:G

Filming Locations:

Dorney Amusement Park - 3830 Dorney Park Road, Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivia:

The roller coaster the girls go on is "Thunderhawk". It is the last remaining wooden roller coaster at Dorney Park.

Goofs:

Continuity: Before leaving Mr. Farriday's ranch, the school bus is set with a prominent display of a bull's horns mounted on the front of the bus. A following scene as the bus is about to go over a bridge clearly shows the bull horns missing from the front of the bus. Soon after when the bus has stopped for unexpected detour signs, the horns are again seen on the front of the bus.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Sister George: [carrying a sign, returning from a protest] Not a single arrest today, Mother!
Mother Superior: [sarcastically] Don't get discouraged, I'm sure you'll do better next time.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Cave Dwellers (#4.1)" (1991)

Soundtrack:

Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows

The Girls Of Saint Francis

In the first film of this series The Trouble With Angels the main focus of the film was on the students in particular Hayley Mills and the trouble she got into, always vexing Mother Superior Rosalind Russell. In Where Angels Go Trouble Follows the accent is on the nuns and in particular the generational dispute between Rosalind Russell and new nun on the faculty, Stella Stevens.

It's the same kind of fun that the previous film was. The girls at the Catholic Academy are all revved up by Stella Stevens to attend an interfaith youth rally cross country in California. She together with Bishop Arthur Godfrey persuade Rosalind Russell to take 3000 mile cross country bus trip with a picked group of the girls. One of them, Barbara Hunter gets to go via her dad William Lundigan donating the bus for the trip.

In fact Hunter and Susan Saint James are the troublesome pair of girls who take Hayley Mills's place in vexing Russell. Funniest scene is when after being ordered to wash the bus bumper to bumper by Russell, the two of them take the bus into a car wash they break into and try to use. Of course the two geniuses forget to close the bus windows before putting it through the wash.

Russell got to work with two of her former fellow contract players at MGM in this film. Robert Taylor plays the owner of a boys summer camp ranch and Van Johnson is a priest and head of a Catholic Boys School. Johnson and she never worked together at MGM and she and Taylor whom she said started the exact same day for Louis B. Mayer were both supporting players in a film West Point Of The Air and did not work together again until Where Angels Go Trouble Follows.

Dolores Sutton, Mary Wickes, and Binnie Barnes were all members of the convent in the previous film and repeat their roles here. Milton Berle is on hand as a movie director of a western on to whose set the bus stumbles on during an 'Indian' attack. With that eyepatch for affect and Berle makes you know it's for affect, it either suggests a spoof of John Ford or Raoul Walsh.

I liked the film because without condescension it shows the generational conflict between the two protagonists, Russell and Stevens. Neither is made to be a fool, both had very good points on their side.

Though it's set in the culture of the Sixties, the humor and wisdom in Where Angels Go Trouble Follows is timeless and will still be funny generations from now.