Keyword Troublemaker

A man in a gleaming white suit comes to a small Southern town on the eve of integration. He calls himself a social reformer. But what he does is stir up trouble--trouble he soon finds he can't control.

Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's future and wary of a scheming relative who seeks custody of the child. One day Mr. Brink, an agent of Death, arrives to take Gramps "to the land where the woodbine twineth." Through a bit of trickery, Gramps confines Mr. Brink, and thus Death, to the branches of a large apple tree, giving Gramps extra time to resolve issues about Pud's future.

Relaxing with a carrot at a U.S. Army air field, Bugs is reading "Victory Through Hare Power" and scoffs at the notion of mentioned gremlins, little creatures who wreak havoc on planes with their diabolical sabotage.

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a series of vignettes illustrate some ways that mothers-in-law irritate, and/or cause problems for, their son-in-law.

Exploring the wit, work and world of Joe Orton through his own words, and the testimony of those who knew him and worked with him.

It's St. Valentine's Day. Cupid is having fun arranging, while a young devil is making mischief sabotaging, love affairs.

Ruby, an 83 year old trying to dodge a retirement home, rents a room to Rata, a solo mum with sidelines in music and benefit fraud. Rata's son is into arson and shoplifting, while Ruby's nephew is a hapless yuppie wannabe. Marginalised by the deregulated economy of the '80s and living on their wits, they may just find common cause despite themselves.

A pair of hapless half-wits get into continuous mischief during the occupation of Germany after WW I.

Joined by his band of merry mates Georgia Blue and Little Johnny, Robbie Hood is a charismatic thirteen-year-old misfit with a heart of gold, who skirts the law to right wrongs he sees playing out in his community. Short of money, and struggling to survive, Robbie and his mates have only themselves to rely on. Guided by the memory of his mother and a strong sense of what’s right and wrong, everything Robbie does is for a reason and, whether good or bad, he does it with the best of intentions. Even if it means helping out his dickhead father.