Malcolm St. Clair

Directing

Malcolm St. Clair

Born 1897-05-17 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Malcolm St. Clair (May 17, 1897 – June 1, 1952) was a Hollywood film director, writer, producer and actor.

Acting credits

Fascinating Youth poster
9.0

Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris Lane, but tells Teddy he can marry whom he pleases if he will make the Mountain Inn a profitable operation. Teddy agrees, and with the support of his friends arranges an ice-boat race with a $10,000 prize to the winner. A problem arises when his father refuses to pay such an amount. Teddy thinks one of his friends will win the race and refuse the prize, but champion racer "Duke" Slade shows up and Teddy knows he will take the money. Some movie stars show up and, while using their own names, are definitely not playing "Self" in this fictional film.

Fascinating Youth

1926

Lost: A Cook poster
NR

Ambrose (Mack Swain) is a clumsy, aspiring cook who finds himself in over his head when he is hired to work in a busy household or restaurant. Most of the humor stems from Ambrose’s spectacular incompetence in the kitchen. He misinterprets simple instructions, leads a series of messy kitchen disasters, and accidentally destroys various household items while attempting to prepare a meal. The situation typically escalates into a frantic "Keystone-style" chase or a massive physical confrontation involving food, dishes, and outraged employers or customers.

Lost: A Cook

1917

The Goat poster
7.2

A series of misadventures occur when Buster is mistaken for a criminal on the lam.

The Goat

1921

The Blacksmith poster
6.6

Buster clowns around in a blacksmith's shop until he and the smithy get in a fight which sends the smithy to jail. Buster helps several customers with horses, then destroys a Rolls Royce while fixing the car parked next to it.

The Blacksmith

1922

Yankee Doodle in Berlin poster
5.7

Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself.

Yankee Doodle in Berlin

1919

His Bitter Pill poster
5.1

Jim, the apple of his mother's eyes, is the big-hearted galoot of a man and is sheriff of his small town. He is sweet on Nell, who he has known all his life. Just as he is about to propose to her, he finds out that he has missed his opportunity as Diamond Dan, a big city slicker, has already proposed to her, to which she's accepted.

His Bitter Pill

1916

Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 poster
6.0

Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood."

Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6

1942

Dollars and Sense poster
NR

A country girl and a foppish Englishman are to inherit an estate, and the terms say that it can't be divided: The two must get married, and if one refuses, then the other gets the entire estate. The girl schemes with her twin brother to trick the Englishman out of his part of the inheritance. The girl's corn-fed crush helps out, while the twins' father dreams of being force-fed dog sausage.

Dollars and Sense

1916

Why Beaches Are Popular poster
7.0

This short was a promo piece for Mack Sennett's Yankee Doodle in Berlin

Why Beaches Are Popular

1919

No artwork available
NR

After having difficulty coming up with a new story idea, a writer pays a fellow to allow him to follow him around in hopes it will encourage his literary juices to flow. Unfortunately, he gets more than he bargained for.

Money to Burns

1924

The Camera Cure poster
9.0

A couple fires there butler over a misunderstanding. When the husband is sent off to hire a new one, he spends most of his time annoying a women in the park. Unbeknownst to him his former butler is there and take a picture of him which he intends to use to get his job back.

The Camera Cure

1917

Cactus Nell poster
NR

Cactus Nell

Cactus Nell

1917

No artwork available
NR

An industrious criminal plays his game so crookedly that he "double crosses" himself.

Did She Do Wrong?

1918

Behind the camera

Crack-Up poster
5.9

Betrayal and espionage abound as an experimental aircraft is readied for its maiden voyage.

Crack-Up

1936

The Show Off poster
7.2

A blowhard who poses as a railroad executive (but is really just a $30-a-week clerk) catches a young bride and then drives her family's finances to the brink of ruin.

The Show Off

1926

Meet the Missus poster
7.0

Gran Higgins falls under the spell of a love-starved widow.

Meet the Missus

1940

Fighting Back poster
6.7

An ex-convict, freed to fight in World War II, gets a factory job and is accused when a bracelet is missing.

Fighting Back

1948

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes poster
10.0

Gold digging blonde Lorelei and her brunette friend Dorothy are searching for rich husbands. This film is believed lost.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

1928

Jitterbugs poster
5.9

The two-man Laurel and Hardy Zoot Suit Band find themselves fronting a scam for "gasolene pills" in wartime oil-short America. They are however soon on the side of the angels helping recover $10,000 for an attractive young lady whose family have themselves been swindled.

Jitterbugs

1943

Lost: A Cook poster
NR

Ambrose (Mack Swain) is a clumsy, aspiring cook who finds himself in over his head when he is hired to work in a busy household or restaurant. Most of the humor stems from Ambrose’s spectacular incompetence in the kitchen. He misinterprets simple instructions, leads a series of messy kitchen disasters, and accidentally destroys various household items while attempting to prepare a meal. The situation typically escalates into a frantic "Keystone-style" chase or a massive physical confrontation involving food, dishes, and outraged employers or customers.

Lost: A Cook

1917

The Bullfighters poster
5.9

Bumbling detective Stan Laurel disguises himself as a famous matador in order to hide from the vengeful Richard K. Muldoon, who spent time in prison on Stan's bogus testimony.

The Bullfighters

1945

The Bullfighters poster
5.9

Bumbling detective Stan Laurel disguises himself as a famous matador in order to hide from the vengeful Richard K. Muldoon, who spent time in prison on Stan's bogus testimony.

The Bullfighters

1945

The Goat poster
7.2

A series of misadventures occur when Buster is mistaken for a criminal on the lam.

The Goat

1921

The Goat poster
7.2

A series of misadventures occur when Buster is mistaken for a criminal on the lam.

The Goat

1921

Dangerously Yours poster
5.8

A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York in search a famous gem. He falls in love with one of the crooks.

Dangerously Yours

1937

The Blacksmith poster
6.6

Buster clowns around in a blacksmith's shop until he and the smithy get in a fight which sends the smithy to jail. Buster helps several customers with horses, then destroys a Rolls Royce while fixing the car parked next to it.

The Blacksmith

1922

The Blacksmith poster
6.6

Buster clowns around in a blacksmith's shop until he and the smithy get in a fight which sends the smithy to jail. Buster helps several customers with horses, then destroys a Rolls Royce while fixing the car parked next to it.

The Blacksmith

1922

Montana Moon poster
4.7

A wild-partying flapper marries a cowboy and tries to adjust to life on a western ranch.

Montana Moon

1930

On Thin Ice poster
7.0

A crook and his gang plan to con a young woman out of a cache of stolen loot they, and the police, believe she's hiding. The situation changes, however, when he falls in love with her and he sets out to save her from being imprisoned for a crime she didn't commit.

On Thin Ice

1925

The Popular Sin poster
3.3

Philandering husband George Montfort purchases railroad tickets for a weekend tryst in the mountains with his latest paramour. When his wife Yvonne finds the tickets, George hastily explains that they were bought as an anniversary present for her. Yvonne doesn't believe George, but she decides to use her ticket anyway, while George remains behind in Paris on "business."

The Popular Sin

1926

The Dancing Masters poster
6.2

The Dancing Masters is a 1943 Laurel and Hardy feature film. The plot involves the team running a ballet school, and getting involved with an inventor. A young Robert Mitchum has an uncredited cameo role as a fraudulent insurance salesman.

The Dancing Masters

1943

Born Reckless poster
5.4

Racketeer Jim Barnes is trying to force the independent taxicab-drivers to join his "protection service" at the cost of five bucks a day. Champion race-car driver, Bob Kane, joins with his friends Lee and "Dad" Martin in a fight for the street rights of a big city.

Born Reckless

1937

Down on the Farm poster
10.0

Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.

Down on the Farm

1938

Sherlock's Home poster
4.8

Gladys falls for a prizefighter who has invited his entire hometown to watch his fight in New York City. However, he gets crazy jealous when he sees Gladys at the fight sitting next to Jimmy. After the bout is over, he sets out for the hotel to teach Jimmy a lesson.

Sherlock's Home

1924

Olsen’s Big Moment poster
9.0

Gangsters, gold-digging dames, and other assorted characters nettle an overworked custodian in this odd farce.

Olsen’s Big Moment

1933

The Big Noise poster
6.1

During World War II Stan and Ollie find themselves as improbable bodyguards to an eccentric inventor and his strategically important new bomb.

The Big Noise

1944

Time Out for Romance poster
6.0

A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.

Time Out for Romance

1937