Mr. Chip's Movie Review Debut: Where Angels Go Trouble Follows

"Where Angels go Trouble Follows" with a musical theme that is unforgettable was made in 1967. I was the tender age of 6 years old. Today in 2007 we have a 4 yr old and I wouldn't even bat an eye about letting her watch it. Granted she probably wouldn't understand it. She'd just enjoy the crazy and hilarious antics of a bunch of young ladies at a Catholic boarding school. Enter Rosalind Russell as the Reverend Mother Superior. Enter a very young Stella Stevens, who is one of the Mother Superiors more radical Nuns. Stevens wants to shake up the old ways of the Nunnery. With the time period set during the Vietnam War and much social upheaval for Civil rights. The activist times of the late sixties with more message music,hippies and the free love society,mini-skirts and young ladies smoking in the bathroom. Rosalind Russell definitely finds her hands full.

In one segment of the movie. Susan Saint James another star is a would-be mad scientist. Who accidentally mixes up a concoction that blows a hole through the building that houses the laboratory. Then you have parts where the young-would-be-nuns go boy crazy. When they find themselves being stranded and their benefactors are a priest and an all boys school. This is where you will hear the theme music again. By the actual band. As the boys and the girls have a dance party.

Towards the end the movie gets more serious and a little scary. When the bus breaks down on the way to a Peace Rally in California. Stella Stevens must get help. Ironically the help is a bike gang. Who are more interested in the bodily measurements of the radical nun. Then in helping her fellow nuns. One of the bikers actually pulls a knife when he feels that Steven's is getting and attitude and smarting off to him. That is when the leader stops his co-Hort. Her words are telling when she says to him "you must be the leader because you don't need a knife." He acknowledges her fact and he and his gang of followers gas up the bus, change the tire and send them on their way to the Peace Rally.

As the movie comes to a close we see Mother Superior and some of the other nuns including Stella Stevens wearing different variations on the mini-skirt style. More reflective of the 1960's MOD fashions. The more hip and trendy dress. Which Stella Stevens believes will help them spread their Gospel message and make them not look so "buttoned-up" staid and uncomfortable for them and others.

This has been a favorite movie of mine forever. Going back to movies like "On Any Sunday" featuring Steve McQueen and "Valley of Gwangii" that I use to watch at the base movie theater in Portsmouth New Hampshire on Pease Air Force base long ago. Closing fact. I own "Where Angels Go Trouble Follows" and I am lucky enough to have the pre-quel(THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS) again featuring Rosalind Russell and other stars such as the wonderful Hayley Mills (The Disney "Parent Trap"),Rachel Devery and Binnie Barnes. To take from another movie I like filled with tons of stars and talent and a movie all the family can enjoy including the baby types the movie is "It's a MAD-MAD-MAD WORLD and I'd say you'll have just as much fun in the funny mad world of a spoof on the lives of nuns. But all in good fun.