"The Trouble With Angels" is rated "PG" due to some "mature themes", like cigar smoking ?
"Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows" is rated "G", and it has a guy holding a switchblade to a nun's neck.
The MPAA, go figure.
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Ratings seem to make little, if any, sense these days.
Here in the U.K. both "The Trouble With Angels" and "Where Angels Go...." are currently rated U (Universal - the British equivalent of G).
But like the MPAA, you can find plenty of absurdities, such as children's movies from the 1960s originally rated U but now classified PG, along with 1950s movies such as "Rebel Without A Cause" which were originally an X certificate and are now also PG.
Forget the switchblade. That chair Sister Celestine accidentally knocks over could have done damage.
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The MPAA's film ratings were instituted on November 1, 1968, in response to religiously-motivated complaints about the sexual, violent, profane, and impudent content of American cinema, after the MPAA's 1966 revision of the Production Code.
There were ratings of sorts before then, though.
Personally, I think I have too much bloom. Maybe that's the trouble with me.
Good catch. I never noticed this one.
shareSmoking was not a "mature theme". No one was policing movies for scenes with smoking in 1966. In fact I'd challenge anyone to find a movie from 1966 or earlier with no smoking in it. This was pre-PC.
Possibly "Trouble with Angels" had a PG rating for the brassiere scene, or the Gypsy Rose Lee scene.
The Trouble With Angels and Where Angels Go Trouble Follows are both tame enough to show on TV. Kids these days watch reruns of vulgar shows such as South Park and Family Guy!
Rosalind Russell looks so cute as Sister George throws a life saver at her head!
Many "G" rated movies in 1968 generally had content that is prevalent in "PG" movies now. Back then, "PG" was called "M" (for Mature). "M" rated movies had some material that would make a film "PG-13" today or at least a very strong "PG".
"Trouble with Angels" was not rated "PG" until many years after its release (the ratings system did not exist in 1966).