
Directing
Malcolm St. Clair
Born — Died
1897-05-17 — 1952-06-01
Place of birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Known for
Directing
Credits
53 titles
Malcolm St. Clair (May 17, 1897 – June 1, 1952) was a Hollywood film director, writer, producer and actor.
Known for
7.2A series of misadventures occur when Buster is mistaken for a criminal on the lam.
The Goat
1921
10.0Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
The Jones Family in Hollywood
1939
5.6An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con woman and is repeatedly mistaken for a gangster.
She Had to Eat
1937
6.3The 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
6.0The 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
5.9Betrayal and espionage abound as an experimental aircraft is readied for its maiden voyage.
Crack-Up
1936
Film credits
1920s · 4 titles
7.2A series of misadventures occur when Buster is mistaken for a criminal on the lam.
The Goat
1921
6.7Buster 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
9.0Playboy 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
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
1910s · 8 titles
7.0This short was a promo piece for Mack Sennett's Yankee Doodle in Berlin
Why Beaches Are Popular
1919
5.7Behind 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
5.1Jim, 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
9.0A 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
NRCactus Nell
Cactus Nell
1917
An industrious criminal plays his game so crookedly that he "double crosses" himself.
Did She Do Wrong?
1918
NRAmbrose (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
NRA 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
Behind the camera
7.2A series of misadventures occur when Buster is mistaken for a criminal on the lam.
The Goat
1921
7.2A series of misadventures occur when Buster is mistaken for a criminal on the lam.
The Goat
1921
10.0Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
The Jones Family in Hollywood
1939
5.6An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con woman and is repeatedly mistaken for a gangster.
She Had to Eat
1937
6.3The 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
6.0The 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
5.9Betrayal and espionage abound as an experimental aircraft is readied for its maiden voyage.
Crack-Up
1936
6.0A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
Time Out for Romance
1937
5.5The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jones. It doesn't take long for the Joneses to be victimized by clever Parisian con artists.
A Trip to Paris
1938
5.7A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the Canary". All the suspects knew and were used by her and everyone had a motive to see her dead. The only witness to the crime has also been 'rubbed out'. Only one man, the keen, fascinating, debonair detective Philo Vance, would be able to figure out who is the killer.
The Canary Murder Case
1929
9.0Gangsters, gold-digging dames, and other assorted characters nettle an overworked custodian in this odd farce.
Olsen’s Big Moment
1933
4.9A gentle botany student has to toughen up to replace his father as chief of police.
Welcome Danger
1929
8.0Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go back home.
Young as You Feel
1940
6.7Buster 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
6.7Buster 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
6.0Bumbling 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
6.0Bumbling 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
4.5When Abner is mistakenly diagnosed as having only two weeks to live, his partner gets the idea that they can make a ton of money by having Abner perform all kinds of dangerous stunts.
Two Weeks to Live
1943
6.5An oil heir and the daughter of a social climbing family are set to marry.
Bright Eyes
1921
9.0The ghost of a murdered man returns to Earth to help a young couple find his killer.
The Man in the Trunk
1942
6.3Lum Edwards is annoyed with his partner in Pine Ridge's Jot-'em-Down general store, Abner Peabody, because Abner has swapped their delivery car for a racehorse. Lum, meanwhile, is too timid to propose to Geraldine.
The Bashful Bachelor
1942
5.5A European countess, after being betrayed by her lover, goes to live in small town Middle America with her cousins and causes havoc among the rather puritanical community members.
A Woman of the World
1925
5.8A 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
8.5A lighthouse keeper and his daughter are in trouble on two fronts--if the authorities find out he is going blind they will remove him, and a gang of liquor-smugglers is trying to destroy the lighthouse so they can land their illegal cargo on shore without being spotted.
The Lighthouse by the Sea
1924
10.0Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
Down on the Farm
1938
4.8Gladys 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
7.3Albert Durant, a young millionaire, poses as a waiter in order to woo an exiled and financially hard up Grand Duchess. She finds him impertinent and clumsy, but also quite fascinating. She takes him into her employ insisting he does everything she asks.
The Grand Duchess and the Waiter
1926
6.7An ex-convict, freed to fight in World War II, gets a factory job and is accused when a bracelet is missing.
Fighting Back
1948
7.0William Hyatt (Tom Moore) runs an exclusive shoe store, and his happy marriage to Grace (Florence Vidor) is nearly derailed by his well-meaning, but hopelessly gauche pal, Al Hennessy (Sterling). Dagmar, a Parisian shoe designer (Esther Ralston) has come to town to meet with Hyatt and Hennessy, and Hennessy describes the situation to Grace in the worst possible manner, convincing her that her husband is having an affair.
The Trouble With Wives
1925
7.0The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
Safety in Numbers
1938
5.9Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger.
Side Street
1929
5.9Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger.
Side Street
1929
8.0Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes) at the office where she works, Berle overhears several men discussing the suicide of a coworker. Struck with a brilliant notion, Berle decides to confess to the murder of the dead man, certain that he'll be able to wriggle out of the situation and thereby have plenty of material for a story.
Over My Dead Body
1942
4.7A wild-partying flapper marries a cowboy and tries to adjust to life on a western ranch.
Montana Moon
1930
3.7A young woman must find a way to break the news to her parents and a stuffy suitor that she is now married to a sailor.
Arthur Takes Over
1948
10.0The teenage daughter of a wealthy couple is horrified to find out that her parents, who spend most of their time fighting with each other, are planning to divorce. She schemes to get them back together by pretending to fall for a dimwitted actor, hoping that her parents will unite to prevent the "romance".
Are Parents People?
1925
7.3In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.
Quick Millions
1939
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
8.0Small-town barber Max Haber is the pride of his father, Johann, who owns an antiquated barbershop. Max adores Kitty Laverne, the manicurist, who loves him but is ambitious to be a dancer, so she heads for New York, hoping that he will follow in pursuit of better things. Mrs. Jackson-Greer, a New York society matron, has occasion to note Max styling the hair of a town girl and induces him to come to New York and pose as a French count. There he meets April, Mrs. King's niece, and loses his heart to her, as well as to Kitty, now a showgirl.
A Social Celebrity
1926
7.0A girl who works in a dance hall falls in love with a sailor, but he has the wrong idea of what it is she does and doesn't want anything to do with her.
The Fleet's In
1928

