FirstWitch
A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
Abbigail Bush
what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
Josephina
Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.
Gideon24
Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows is a 1968 sequel to the 1966 classic The Trouble with Angels, but lightening definitely did not strike twice here.Rosalind Russell reprises her role as the Mother Superior who heads up St. Francis Academy, a convent school for teenage girls. In this film, the Reverend Mother finds herself at odds with a new nun at the Academy named Sister George, exuberantly played by Stella Stevens, whose radical ideas about education and everything else excites her young charges but works Reverend Mother's nerves into a frazzle. The conflict between old and new reach a fever pitch when Reverend Mother and Sister George take several of the girls on a cross-country bus trip.The film attempts to recapture t he spirit of the first film, but the conflict that Russell and Stevens' characters create here just aren't as interesting as the conflict between Russell and Hayley Mills in the first film. The adventures presented here include the bus breaking down and an encounter with a movie star (Robert Taylor) filming on location.Russell and Stevens work very hard to sustain interest here and Binnie Barnes and Mary Wickes also recreate their roles from the first film and provide sporadic laughs. Van Johnson appears as a priest and one of the St. Francis girls is played by a very young Susan Saint James.It's a pleasant time-filler, nothing more, but Hayley Mills is sorely missed.
Tad Pole
. . . this tone-deaf sequel from two years later tries WAY too hard to jump onto the Hippie Summer of Love Bandwagon and "be cool" like some sort of Junior Miss version of Boomer icon Tom Wolfe's KANDY-KOLORED TANGERINE-FLAKE STREAMLINE BABY (BUS). Every decade features its share of teen angst flicks, but only the 1960s let the instantly obsolete and grating slang necessary to "humor" young adults leak into most of the films intended for general audiences. WHERE ANGELS GO, TROUBLE FOLLOWS! is a case in point. Hippie Sister George flaunts the essence of Nun-Hood, and by film's end the right-minded (in the earlier movie, at least) Reverend Mother is speaking and dressing like a teen wannabe herself! In other words, the inmates are now running the asylum! Real life in America mirrored this "canary in the coal mine" warning film so much that Pope Benedict was forced to crush the entire leadership of American nuns which sprang from Sister George's generation. This cheap road trip flick pulls all its punches, while distorting and demeaning Native American History. ("Custer's Last Stand" occurred in 1844 and the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1858, according to the sisters' reckoning. C'Mon, people!) I'm sure poet Robert Frost would NOT follow these troubled "angels," but leave this film as "a road not taken."
atlasmb
This comedy has little to recommend it. Whatever drama might be generated by an intergenerational conflict (represented by Mother Superior and the upstart younger nun) was very tame and broadly played. Whatever comedy might have come from the various situations the nuns and their students encounter was rather clichéd and hardly knee-slapping.Where Angels Go is an over-the-road story that could have been about real truths discovered and personal revelations, but--like sixties conventions themselves--it's mostly about surface issues. Easy Rider would soon redefine the genre and create film's new anti-heroes, challenging the status quo in more profound ways. Some reviewers who are Catholic have correctly pointed out that one can see examples of the church's struggle to modernize itself in this film, but the church was struggling with issues already addressed by society decades before, as is always the case.Rosalind Russell turns in a creditable performance as the Mother Superior. Stella Stevens is a worthy antagonist. The other actors were not asked to stretch much. The story just is not that compelling.
wes-connors
This raggedly produced sequel to "The Trouble with Angels" (1966) focuses on returning conservative "Mother Superior" Rosalind Russell's clash with younger, liberal Stella Stevens (as Sister George). Driver Mary Wickes (as Sister Clarissa), Binnie Barnes (as Sister Celestine), and Dolores Sutton (as Sister Rose Marie) also return. The nuns take a cross country bus trip, from Pennsylvania to California, which provides some lovely locations. Like the original film, we get a "hip" for the sixties Catholic Church.Prurient fun can be had in watching the convent women dancing at a naughty all-girl pajama party, swingin' at a Catholic boys' school, and shortening their skirts. The mischievous "girls" taking center stage are butch Susan Saint James (as Rosabelle) and blonde Barbara Hunter (as Marvel Ann). Two sexy young "Peyton Place" "hunks" appear - first, motorcycle gang leader Michael Christian trades sharp innuendo with Ms. Stevens, then blond ranch-hand John Findlater arouses the girls at a swimsuit party.There were few, if any retakes - note Stevens brushing a fly away from her face, and the falling chair - in fact, the movie plays like four episodes of a TV series; and it was likely, at some point, considered as such. But, it is fairly good fun to watch. Unseen pop duo Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart provide the soundtrack theme. You also get old-timers Milton Berle, Robert Taylor (his last appearance), Van Johnson, and Arthur Godfrey showing they're part of the 1960s effort to merge the "In Crowd" with Catholicism.***** Where Angels Go… Trouble Follows! (4/3/68) James Neilson ~ Rosalind Russell, Stella Stevens, Susan Saint James, Barbara Hunter
