Writing

Al Giebler

Known for

Writing

Credits

29 titles

Known for

A Sea Dog's Tale poster
7.0

An island princess falls in love with a young man whose picture she sees in the newspaper. Her father, the king, sends his agents to the U.S. to kidnap the man and bring him back to the islands to marry his daughter. Complications ensue.

A Sea Dog's Tale

1926

Tassels in the Air poster
6.8

The stooges are janitors in an office building. They stencil the wrong names on all the offices, causing a rich lady to mistakes Moe for famous decorator Omay. She hires the boys to redecorate her house, which they proceed to ruin. More trouble ensues when the real Omay shows up.

Tassels in the Air

1938

Stop! Look! and Laugh! poster
4.7

Moe, Larry and Curly appear in short subjects linked by ventriloquist Paul Winchell and his dummies.

Stop! Look! and Laugh!

1960

Violent Is the Word for Curly poster
7.1

The stooges are left in charge of a gas station and manage to blow up the car of their first customers, three famous European professors. The stooges steal some of the academics' clothes and wind up at "Mildew", a women's college where the three professors are expected. Mistaken as the real thing, the boys take their place on the faculty. When the real professors show up, the stooges try to convince a rich woman, the schools benefactor, that an athletics programs is more important. Their athletics demonstration comes to an explosive end when the real professors slip them a nitroglycerin basketball.

Violent Is the Word for Curly

1938

Society Mugs poster
7.0

Muriel Allen needs an escort to Alice Preston's dinner party, and her maid Petunia mistakenly places a telephone call to Acme Exterminators instead of Acme Escorts. It's Shemp and Tom to the rescue, and they're assumed to be cultured college seniors. Guest of honor Lord Wafflebottom follows the pest exterminators' lead in proper American party manners, turning the dinner party into an uncouth display. When mice are conveniently spotted, the boys go to work, disrupting the party and the entire mansion.

Society Mugs

1946

Love at First Flight poster
8.0

Love at First Flight is a 1928 comedy short.

Love at First Flight

1928

Behind the camera

A Sea Dog's Tale poster
7.0

An island princess falls in love with a young man whose picture she sees in the newspaper. Her father, the king, sends his agents to the U.S. to kidnap the man and bring him back to the islands to marry his daughter. Complications ensue.

A Sea Dog's Tale

1926

Tassels in the Air poster
6.8

The stooges are janitors in an office building. They stencil the wrong names on all the offices, causing a rich lady to mistakes Moe for famous decorator Omay. She hires the boys to redecorate her house, which they proceed to ruin. More trouble ensues when the real Omay shows up.

Tassels in the Air

1938

Stop! Look! and Laugh! poster
4.7

Moe, Larry and Curly appear in short subjects linked by ventriloquist Paul Winchell and his dummies.

Stop! Look! and Laugh!

1960

Violent Is the Word for Curly poster
7.1

The stooges are left in charge of a gas station and manage to blow up the car of their first customers, three famous European professors. The stooges steal some of the academics' clothes and wind up at "Mildew", a women's college where the three professors are expected. Mistaken as the real thing, the boys take their place on the faculty. When the real professors show up, the stooges try to convince a rich woman, the schools benefactor, that an athletics programs is more important. Their athletics demonstration comes to an explosive end when the real professors slip them a nitroglycerin basketball.

Violent Is the Word for Curly

1938

Society Mugs poster
7.0

Muriel Allen needs an escort to Alice Preston's dinner party, and her maid Petunia mistakenly places a telephone call to Acme Exterminators instead of Acme Escorts. It's Shemp and Tom to the rescue, and they're assumed to be cultured college seniors. Guest of honor Lord Wafflebottom follows the pest exterminators' lead in proper American party manners, turning the dinner party into an uncouth display. When mice are conveniently spotted, the boys go to work, disrupting the party and the entire mansion.

Society Mugs

1946

Love at First Flight poster
8.0

Love at First Flight is a 1928 comedy short.

Love at First Flight

1928

Calling All Doctors poster
8.0

Charley is a hypochondriac who is driving his family, his friends and his doctor crazy.

Calling All Doctors

1937

The Big Squirt poster
6.0

Soda jerk reads mystery stories, fancies himself a master detective.

The Big Squirt

1937

The Best Man poster
7.5

A bride and groom are all set to get married, but they can't until the best man shows up. When the best man eventually does show up, he causes a few problems since he ran through some tar just before entering the church. The groom doesn't seem to mind too much, just as long as the best man brought the ring, which he did. But as the wedding proceeds, that sticky tar just can't help but get the best man into one disastrous incident after another, including with the ring. That havoc, which leads into the reception, the wedding night and the honeymoon send off, may end the marriage even before it begins... or at least the couple's friendship with their best man.

The Best Man

1928

Ants in the Pantry poster
6.9

The Stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting vermin in a ritzy mansion where a party is going on. They are hired, but must pose as guests to work unobserved. They ruin a piano and generally make a mess of the party, but the hostess passes them off as vaudeville comedians and they are invited to join the guests on a fox hunt.

Ants in the Pantry

1936

The Wrong Miss Wright poster
9.0

Charley tries to get out of an arranged marriage so he can marry another girl. What he doesn't realize is that they are one and same girl.

The Wrong Miss Wright

1937

No artwork available
8.0

Johnny writes a screenplay, then gets Tom and his wife to star with him in his amateur production. Their production is about their boss, who walks in on a screening of the finished product, puts "two and two" together and is infuriated....until the footage reveals the truth behind Tom and Johnny's co-worker...who is collecting workman's comp for his "injuries".

Halfway to Hollywood

1938

Gracie at the Bat poster
7.0

Andy manages an all-girl softball team.

Gracie at the Bat

1937

Musclebound Music poster
7.0

Bill and Oscar are musicians but they can't make enough to pay their room-and-board, and they are both in love with the landlady's daughter. However, she is in love with Horace, a wrestler, and Bill gets a world's championship match with him in hopes of securing the needed-boardinghouse bill, and the hand of the daughter of the house.

Musclebound Music

1926

No artwork available
8.0

A Billy Bevan slapstick comedy short.

Masked Mamas

1926

Brothers Under the Chin poster
7.0

Twin "babies" left at an orphanage bear the same birthmark under the chin. One of them is adopted and then the scene shifts to "twenty years later." The other as captain of a sailing vessel needs an extra hand. It does not develop until the end that the well dressed man he has abducted is his own brother.

Brothers Under the Chin

1924

A Doggone Mixup poster
7.0

Harry, who can't resist a bargain, buys a St. Bernard dog.

A Doggone Mixup

1938

The Nightshirt Bandit poster
10.0

A criminology professor sets out to find the "sleepwalking bandit", but when he finally catches up with the somnambulistic thief, it's not quite who he thought it would be.

The Nightshirt Bandit

1938

Ice Cold Cocos poster
9.0

Billy and Andy impersonate two ice-delivery men in a suburban town. Billy takes a fancy to a newly-wed bride and most of his loose cash is liquidated as he flirts with her. Her husband is not pleased at Billy's attentions to his new bride. There is a skating contest at the local ice-rink, and the bride, her mother and her husband are in attendance, as are Billy and Andy, the icemen.

Ice Cold Cocos

1926

The Mind Needer poster
7.0

A Charley Chase short, produced at Columbia. Charley is alarmingly forgetful, and this is his wedding anniversary. Will he give his wife a present and avoid her wrath?

The Mind Needer

1938

Playing the Ponies poster
6.3

The stooges are gypped into trading their restaurant for "Thunderbolt", a washed up race horse. When Curly feeds Thunderbolt some chili pepperinos, he runs like crazy towards the nearest water. The boys enter Thunderbolt in a big race. With jockey Larry feeding Thunderbolt the pepperinos, and Moe and Curly on a motorcycle leading him with a bucket of water, they win the race.

Playing the Ponies

1937

No artwork available
10.0

Aa Columbia 2-reel comedy starring Tom Kennedy and Monty Collins in NEW NEWS (1937). Fans of the 3 Stooges will recognize the exact same plot and situations from their short CRASH GOES THE HASH (1944). Yes, this version came out BEFORE the Stooges version...so anyone that says these guys are ripping the Stooges off, they are wrong! Columbia made 526 slapstick two-reelers between 1933-1958...190 starred the Stooges...336 others starred a variety of comedians.

New News

1937

The Grand Hooter poster
10.0

Charley's wife accuses him of preferring his Hoot Owl Lodge over her.

The Grand Hooter

1937

A Rainy Knight poster
7.5

Sweethearts Jimmie Carter and Bessie Barnes work for Adolph Brock at the Acme Corporation. One day while he is out for a drive in his jalopy of a car, Jimmie spies a pretty young woman on horseback. He comes to her rescue after she falls off her horse and gets injured, he leading her to refuge in an abandoned cabin when it starts to rain heavily. Although she flirts with him, he, in turn attracted to her, wants to remain faithful to Bessie and resists his urges. When this woman mysteriously disappear on him, he can't stop thinking about her and follows her innuendo to meet with her at her apartment. All the while, he is unaware that she is Peggy Joyce, Brock's gold-digging fiancée. He is also unaware that Peggy has ulterior motives for coming on to him, which, in combination with her dangerous past, could lead to complications for all involved.

A Rainy Knight

1925

The Leather Necker poster
NR

Harry and his ex-sergeant recall their rivalry over the same girl.

The Leather Necker

1935

Two Wagons Both Covered poster
10.0

Satire on the epic Western 'The Covered Wagon (1923)'.

Two Wagons Both Covered

1924

Termites of 1938 poster
6.9

The stooges are pest exterminators, mistakenly hired by a rich lady looking for an escort to a fancy society party. The stooges wreck the fancy mansion where the party is taking place and befuddle the guest of honor, an English Lord.

Termites of 1938

1938

Dog Daze poster
5.4

The Gang owes 37 cents to Butch, so they try to raise money by rounding up stray dogs for the reward, but nearly get busted for dognapping.

Dog Daze

1939

The Greener Hills poster
6.3

An MGM Miniature about an incurable optimist who is always giving up on his job or project to try something new, while his wife and kids humor him, thinking that some day he may make that million he always talks about. He takes over a peanut farm, but immediately starts off on a bee-hive project, leaving his wife and kids to run the peanut farm.

The Greener Hills

1939