Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows! ** (1968, Rosalind Russell, Stella Stevens, Binnie Barnes, Mary Wickes) – Classic Movie Review 9,173

Rosalind Russell stars again as the Mother Superior in the 1968 comedy sequel film Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows! Stella Stevens co-stars as a young nun who sympathises with the rebellious convent students.

And where a hit movie goes, a troubled sequel often follows. Witness the 1968 comedy film Where Angels Go Trouble Follows! director James Neilson’s seemingly too hastily and shambolically packaged follow-up to The Trouble with Angels, in which the St Francis Academy For Girls nuns take their Catholic convent schoolgirls  on a bus trip across America from Pennsylvania to a convention on the West Coast.

Expected adventures happen on the way, such as bus problems, a stopover at a Catholic boys’ school and a clash with the other kind of angels – Hell’s Angels.

Among the hardworking cast, Rosalind Russell is back from The Trouble with Angels as the mother superior, Stella Stevens is a thoroughly modern young nun, Van Johnson is the boys’ school priest Father Chase, Milton Berle plays the Movie Director in a parody of John Ford, and Binnie Barnes, Mary Wickes and Dolores Sutton return too from The Trouble with Angels as teachers Sister Celestine, Sister Clarissa and Sister Rose Marie. All of them give winsome performances.

Blanche Hanalis again writes the stodgy screenplay, based on the characters from Jane Trahey’s book Life with Mother Superior.

Also in the cast are Arthur Godfrey as The Bishop, Susan Saint James as Rosabelle, Barbara Hunter as Marvel Ann, Alice Rawlings, Hilarie Thompson, Devon Douglas, Ellen Moss, William Lundigan, and Robert Taylor as millionaire Mr Farriday, owner of a Western dude ranch.

© Derek Winnert 2019 Classic Movie Review 9,173

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