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Summary: For the adolescent Catholic girl school experience A+
Review: I first saw this film when I was a teenager 'enjoying' all the trials and tribulations of these girls. Now as an adult and a Rosalind Russell fan this movie is funny and poignant on an entirely different level. Women, girls - sit back with the popcorn and enjoy.
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Summary: Happy 60s Movie
Review: Typical of the period; a little slow, but very enjoyable. Nice for a rainy weekend afternoon.
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Summary: "That's a blast...."
Review: "The Trouble with Angels" is a cute, innocuous movie whose humor, unfortunately, doesn't always translate well from the 1960s to the new century. Mary Clancy (Hayley Mills) and Rachel Devery (June Harding) are thrown together at St. Francis Academy, a Catholic girls' school run by nuns and administered by Mother Superior (Rosalind Russell). The two girls chafe at the rigidity of the routine at the school and end up pulling a series of juvenile pranks based on Mary's "scathingly brilliant ideas" (which, it needn't be said, are only marginally clever at best). This, of course, displeases Mother Superior and gets the girls in trouble on a regular basis. However, the school gradually has a profound effect on Mary, giving rise to a surprise ending.The film must likewise have had an effect on me, as I named my daughter Devery after the June Harding character.
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Summary: What no LetterBox format?
Review: I adore this movie but i won't buy the DVD until it comes out in letterbox format. Note - it is slightly cheaper at walmart's site but not by much. If I have to suffer thru a full screen version, i might as well continue to view my VHS copy [recorded off of TV]
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Summary: Oh, BROTHER!
Review: I can't believe that Sony released a pan-and-scan edition of this and that I didn't catch it before purchasing it. Please, Sony, if you're going to assign a $24.95 list price to a DVD with NO EXTRAS WHATSOEVER, at least have the decency to offer pan-and-scan as an option (for those who'd actually want such a thing) along with an anamorphic widescreen print in the correct ratio aspect, as you did with The Long Gray Line, for instance. I'm really disgusted that this charming, hilarious film was accorded such shabby treatment, and the high list price adds insult to injury. Not surprising, given that the Columbia catalog is owned by the same folks who screwed up with Betamax, and are the last label to offer hybrid SACD's.
Incidentally, this film is based on a true story written by Jane Trahey titled Life with Mother Superior. The movie is faithful to the spirit of the book, which is devastatingly funny. Grab it if you can find it.
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Summary: Happy 60s Movie
Review: A film by Ida Lupino "The Trouble with Angels" is a very charming movie and it remains one of my favorites. The story is simple, but sweet. It takes place at the St. Francis Academy for Girls, where Mary Clancy (Hayley Mills) and Rachel Devery (June Harding) are enrolling as students. This is a parochial school run by nuns and is also the Mother House of their order. The school is run by the Mother Superior (Rosalind Russell). Mary and Rachel become fast friends on the train ride to the school and when they arrive they are inseparable. They love to pull pranks and just try to have a good time and get by for as long as they have to be at that school. Mother Superior tries to keep the girls in line and run the school as well as she can. As the movie progresses, we get to see how Mary reacts to the school and how she grows. The film quickly covers several years of their education but it doesn't feel as if it is jumping around too much. We see the transformation of Mary Clancy and while the ending comes as a little bit of a surprise, it really shouldn't. "The Trouble with Angels" is a wonderful, good-hearted movie that is perfect for the whole family. There are complaints that this DVD is in the pan and scan format rather than the widescreen OAR that it should be in, but knowing that that is the only format available we have to understand that this is likely the only opportunity to own "The Trouble with Angels" that we will have. The purist in me wants the widescreen, but the rest of my just loves this movie and is glad to have it available at all
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Summary: Terrific movie, BUT...
Review: It is great to have Trouble with Angels come out in DVD, but why did it not come out in it's original aspect ratio. It is not an inexpensive DVD. It was either filmed in 1.66 which is not much to worry about, but if it was filmed in 1.85 we have lost some of the feel and picture.
It definately was not filmed in 1.33, as when the movie starts it states "made to fit your t.v." , plus almost every movie after 1953 was letterboxes with exceptions.
I hope the movie is released again in letterbox, but it is doubtful since it has already been released.
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