WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

RyothChatty ridiculous rating

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Usamah Harvey The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

standalone-magazine Since this is my favorite film of (all-time), there are a number of wonderful aspects that I can point out to everyone. It's a film that's full of heart and soul right from the start. Mary Clancy (Hayley Mills) is a spirited teenager who has a (knack) for getting into trouble. And with her new partner in crime, Rachel Devery (June Harding) the sky is the limit. Another bright spot is 'Mother Superior' played by screen legend (Rosalind Russell). She hands her hands full with these two right from the start. (I guess it's pay-back from her days of being a misfit youth.) As the film moves along, we see why Mary Clancy acts the way she does. Her home life isn't the best around and really doesn't know how to love anyone or herself. (It's a bit like her character from the film 'The Chalk Garden' with Deborah Kerr. But not as intense as that character.) But as the film unfolds, she and Rachel learn a lot about life and friendship. And they also learn that getting into trouble never really pays off. but in the end, Mary Clancy becomes the woman that she was always meant to be. It's a wonderful film that all of you will enjoy...The Trouble with Angels.

lisa195719082 I just love this movie. I have it on tape and I've watched over and over numerous times! Rosalind Russell was just excellent as the Mother Superior!I'm surprised that Hayley Mills' and June Harding's characters weren't kicked out as the Mother Superior had planned to do. Smoking in the girls' bathroom. Putting Marvel Ann's bubble bath into the nuns' sugar bowls. Plastering Marvel Ann's (Marvel Ann was Hayley Mills' character's grumpy cousin; also a student at St. Francis) face with plaster from the art room, where the nuns had to use pliers in order to take it off. Showing the other girls around the nuns' living quarters; despite being told that it was "off limits to the entire student body." Cutting swimming classes. Smoking in another building that sent the fire company rushing to the main building, where everybody was evacuated, and the Mother Superior had had it with Mary and Rachel's pranks. They should have been kicked out much sooner.I think that they were just rebelling because they didn't want to be there in the first place. Hayley Mills' character, Mary Clancy, was an orphan. Her uncle (Marvel Ann's father) was just too busy with his own life to take care of her. And June Harding's character, Rachel Devery, missed the progressive school that she went too. She tells Mr. Petrie, the headmaster, in a note that she was "trapped in a nunnery", and that she would commit an "act of desperation" if she didn't get out of St. Francis. The Mother Superior wasn't pleased with this when Mr Petrie was in her office. She didn't even like what the progressive school. taught. No wonder Rachel's father took her out of there.I believe that Hayley Mills' character decided to become a nun because the Mother Superior found that being a nun was better than being a fashion designer; as well as the death of Sister Ligouri; the school's math teacher and assistant to the Mother Superior.It's a shame that Hayley Mills didn't appear in the sequel, "Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows; which was just as good. I wonder how she would have handled those girls, including Marvel Ann, when they went on a bus trip to a youth rally in California.This movie did not make fun of the Catholic Church and nuns. Even though it was a comedy, it treated religion with respect and dignity. Sadly, too many movies and TV shows today make fun of religion; especially Christianity and Judaism.I was only in third grade when this movie first came out. For years, I heard that this movie was filmed right here in the Philadelphia area; where I was born and raised (and I still live here today), but I wasn't so sure. I later learned that it was filmed on the grounds of the St. Mary's Villa for Children in suburban Ambler, Montgomery County. In fact, I worked not too far from where this movie was filmed in neighboring Fort Washington. The Fort Washington Fire Company supplied the fire trucks that rushed to the academy when Sister Prudence, Judith Lowry's character (she also played Mother Dexter on Phyllis) saw smoke coming from the area where Mary and Rachel were smoking. I sometimes went home that way and every time I go by there, I think to myself "This is where The Trouble With Angels" was filmed.

James Hitchcock During the first half of the sixties Hayley Mills was perhaps the most successful teenage actress in Hollywood, appearing in a series of family comedies for Walt Disney. "The Trouble with Angels" was the first movie she made after her contract with Disney came to an end in 1965, and although Hayley was now twenty years old she was still cast as a teenage schoolgirl. The film is set in an all-girls Catholic boarding school run by an order of nuns. Hayley plays the rebellious Mary Clancy who with her best friend Rachel Devery gets into all sorts of scrapes and becomes the bane of the Mother Superior's life. Although Hayley's own schooldays were now at an end, she was still young enough to be convincing as a teenager. Not so June Harding, who plays Rachel and was actually twenty-six at the time, three years older than Camilla Sparv, who plays one of the nuns, Sister Constance. Unlike Mills, who is her usual irrepressible self, Harding gives a wooden performance.Although the movie was made in the sixties, the heyday of protest and youthful rebellion, the misdemeanours of the two girls are very minor-league stuff. The general atmosphere is similar to that of those old boarding school novels from the thirties by the likes of Enid Blyton and Angela Brazil; all that is missing is a midnight feast with lashings of ginger beer. I kept hoping that Mary and Rachel would do something really daring, like taking drugs, sneaking boys back into their dormitory, going on a protest march calling for the Pill to be distributed free, having a lesbian affair or spiking the nuns' coffee with LSD, but their minor acts of rebellion never get much further than bilking off swimming lessons by feigning illness or sneaking off for a quick cigarette. The scene in which Mary substitutes soap powder for the nuns' sugar is about as much fun as it gets. Hayley Mills obviously wanted to keep her clean-cut image intact, although that image was to be damaged in her next film, "Sky West and Crooked", in which she plays a simple-minded girl who gets involved with an older man, and to be blown out of the water in the film after that, "The Family Way", in which she appeared nude.For most of its length "The Trouble with Angels" is a rather dull comedy about naughty schoolgirls, but it tries to become more serious at the end when Mary, rather improbably, decides that she too will become a nun. Mary seems to have been impressed by Sister Constance who is leaving the school to teach in a leper colony in the Philippines, and by the Mother Superior's own life history- she gave up a successful career as a fashion designer to become a nun- but there has been little in what has gone before to suggest that Mary might have a religious vocation, and this ending comes as something of a surprise. If the film-makers had wanted to make a film about a girl who becomes a nun- a sort of junior version of "The Nun's Story"- they would have done better to concentrate more on her spiritual development from the start. As it is, I was left with the impression that they simply tacked this unlikely ending onto this feeble comedy just to reassure Catholic cinema-goers that their faith was not being lampooned. 4/10

bkoganbing Rosalind Russell, Loretta Young, and Irene Dunne were the Catholic triple threat of Hollywood stardom. All of these women were prominent Catholic lay individuals and later on in their careers got to do a little outreach for their religion. I don't think Roz ever served the Catholic cause better than by playing a Mother Superior whose convent runs a Catholic Girl's High School. The kids board there, it's a place for rich men of the Catholic persuasion to dump their teenage daughters.No one of the students is more aware of it than Hayley Mills and she's one rebellious child. She and her friend June Harding become the Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance of the student body, giving no end of grief to Rosalind Russell and the rest of the sisters.It is true that Rosalind Russell stated in her memoirs that she and Hayley Mills did not get along in the making of The Trouble With Angels. Quite different from what Maureen O'Hara said about Hayley during the making of The Parent Trap. What a difference six years can make. But in teenage years it's a lifetime of change. Hayley Mills even after finishing her contract with Disney could not escape that image and her youthful appearance worked against her getting really adult parts. Later that year she finally broke the mold with The Family Way back in her native Great Britain. Russell attributed it to hormonal change as well in her life.This film has some touches of sadness as well unlike the sequel Where Angels Go Troubles Follow. One of the sisters dies unexpectedly and Hayley's life takes an unexpected turn that she would have told you that you were nuts if you didn't see it. Russell's an old fashioned Mother Superior, but wise and patient with her charges. She's most definitely not Auntie Mame in a habit.Given all that the Catholic church has recently dealt with you could not make a film like this today. So when this one is run, enjoy it and think of more innocent times.