Malcolm St. Clair

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

Film credits

1920s · 4 titles

1910s · 8 titles

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

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

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

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

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

Behind the camera

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

The Jones Family in Hollywood poster
10.0

Father 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

She Had to Eat poster
5.6

An 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

The Dancing Masters poster
6.3

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

Jitterbugs poster
6.0

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

Crack-Up poster
5.9

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

Crack-Up

1936

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

A Trip to Paris poster
5.5

The 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

The Canary Murder Case poster
5.7

A 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

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

Welcome Danger poster
4.9

A gentle botany student has to toughen up to replace his father as chief of police.

Welcome Danger

1929

Young as You Feel poster
8.0

Father 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

The Blacksmith poster
6.7

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
6.7

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 Bullfighters poster
6.0

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
6.0

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

Two Weeks to Live poster
4.5

When 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

Bright Eyes poster
6.5

An oil heir and the daughter of a social climbing family are set to marry.

Bright Eyes

1921

The Man in the Trunk poster
9.0

The ghost of a murdered man returns to Earth to help a young couple find his killer.

The Man in the Trunk

1942

The Bashful Bachelor poster
6.3

Lum 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

A Woman of the World poster
5.5

A 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

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 Lighthouse by the Sea poster
8.5

A 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

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

The Grand Duchess and the Waiter poster
7.3

Albert 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

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

The Trouble With Wives poster
7.0

William 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

Safety in Numbers poster
7.0

The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.

Safety in Numbers

1938

Side Street poster
5.9

Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger.

Side Street

1929

Side Street poster
5.9

Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger.

Side Street

1929

Over My Dead Body poster
8.0

Berle 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

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

Arthur Takes Over poster
3.7

A 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

Are Parents People? poster
10.0

The 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

Quick Millions poster
7.3

In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.

Quick Millions

1939

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

A Social Celebrity poster
8.0

Small-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

The Fleet's In poster
7.0

A 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