The Troublemaker (1964 film)

The Troublemaker
Directed by	Theodore J. Flicker
Produced by	Robert Gaffney
Written by	Theodore J. Flicker Buck Henry
Story by	Buck Henry
Starring	Tom Aldredge Joan Darling
Music by	Cy Coleman
Cinematography	Gayne Rescher
Edited by	William Austin John McManus
Production company	Ozymandias Seneca Productions
Distributed by	Janus Films
Release dates	June 22, 1964
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Troublemaker is a 1964 film directed by Theodore J. Flicker. The script was co-written by him and Buck Henry, and they both had roles in the film. The humor was based on The Premise, a Greenwich Village based comedy troupe.^[1]

Premise

A young, naive chicken farmer from New Jersey moves to Greenwich Village to open a coffee shop.

Principal cast

Actor	Role
Tom Aldredge	Jack Armstrong
Joan Darling	Denver James
James Frawley	Sal Kelly / Sol Kelly / Judge Kelly
Theodore J. Flicker	Mr. Big
Buck Henry	T. R. Kingston
Godfrey Cambridge	F.I.

Critical reception

Bosley Crowther of The New York Times gave the film a mixed review.

“

In a manner that bears some resemblance to intelligent reasoning some times, and at other times to the manifestation of sheer insanity, the people who made The Premise a Greenwich Village hit are trying to make a motion picture bear a reasonable resemblance to one. And the consequence of their strange endeavor is that sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. The Troublemaker achieves the dubious triumph of being a troublesome film.[2]

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References

1. Brennan, Sandra. "The Troublemaker > Overview". AllMovie. Retrieved 2010-09-21.
2. Crowther, Bosley (1964-06-23). "Original ''New York Times'' review". Movies.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2010-10-04.

External links

• The Troublemaker at the Internet Movie Database
• The Troublemaker at AllMovie