BETHLEHEM, PA / AGILITYPR.NEWS / August 02, 2021 /  

Columbia Pictures had a hit with their 1966 release of the Rosalind Russell and Hayley Mills comedy, THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS, and they quickly rushed a sequel into production. WHERE ANGELS GO TROUBLE FOLLOWS followed many of the first film’s characters as they traversed the country on their way to a youth rally. 

Along the way, in the sequel, they stopped at an all-boys High School, A Hollywood movie set and the Lehigh Valley’s most famous amusement park, Dorney Park.

On Wednesday August 4, 2021 the nuns will officially return to Dorney Park when Bethlehem-born actor and director, Daniel Roebuck, brings his latest film to the 137 year old park.

THE HAIL MARY is about a funny nun, Sister Kathy (played by Marsha Dietlein Bennett) who finds a man (Daniel Roebuck) in desperate need of redemption and cons him into creating a football team for her all-boys Catholic School.

Roebuck, who has always credited THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS as a big inspiration for THE HAIL MARY is pleased as punch to be taking his cinematic characters to the park for a day.

“When I was a kid, I couldn’t believe that “my” Dorney Park was in a movie and now as a grown-up filmmaker I can’t believe that I am putting the historic amusement park back in a movie! We are so grateful to have had the cooperation of the Dorney team and the support of their parent organization, Cedar Fair Entertainment Company,” Roebuck recently shared from the set in Northampton, Pennsylvania.

In this latest film, Roebuck’s cinematic football team takes a much-needed day off to travel to Dorney Park and of course the nun’s chaperone.

Roebuck continued, “Our Religious Sisters will enjoy the park as much as the schoolboys do, just like they did in Where Angels Go Trouble Follows. ‘Nuns’ on roller coasters just seem funny to me. 

“When Danny contacted us to film at Dorney, we knew this was a project we wanted to do. We are extremely honored to be highlighted in his latest film as there are plenty of FUN places all around the area,” said Tana Korpics, Dorney Park’s public relations manager. “The park has been a staple in the Lehigh Valley since 1884; to be featured in this Lehigh Valley-based movie is simply amazing.”

THE HAIL MARY is the second film being made through the non-profit, A CHANNEL OF PEACE. The first, LUCKY LOUIE, was filmed last fall, also in the Lehigh Valley. Roebuck and his team of producers are dedicated to giving opportunities to the local community to work on the set both behind and in front of the camera.

Aside from Dietlein Bennet, most of the women playing the religious sisters in this film are all Lehigh Valley residents. The same is true for the boys playing football players.

Valley residents might also end up in the film if they are guests of Dorney on Wednesday the 4th of August. They will have another opportunity to be part of Roebuck’s movie on Saturday, August14th when the company hopes to draw a couple hundred people to the BASD Stadium for a portion of the film that will require a large crowd for the football game sequence.

For more information or if you’d like to be part of ACOP’s mission to create faith-filled family entertainment, please go to www.achannelofpeace.org