The Trouble with Angels

The Trouble with Angels (1966) is a Columbia Pictures comedy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Ida Lupino and starring Hayley Mills and Rosalind Russell.

Mary and her friend Rachel arrive at St. Francis Academy for Girls determined not to be bored. Mother Superior — played by Russell with total composure — has managed difficult students before. Not these two. The pranks escalate year by year; the landing is always the same chair across the same desk. Somewhere between one stunt and the next, something quietly shifts.

Lupino was among the very few women directing studio features in Hollywood in 1966, and the film has a warmth that doesn't need to announce itself. Stream The Trouble with Angels online on iFILM.