Al Christie

Directing

Al Christie

Born — Died

1881-10-23 — 1951-04-14

Place of birth

London, Ontario, Canada

Known for

Directing

Credits

42 titles

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

Melancholy Mama poster
6.0

A nightclub owner's wife, jealous of his attentions to his star singer, schemes to get her fired.

Melancholy Mama

1929

Rowdy Ann poster
5.4

Ann is one tough cowgirl. After she beats up Hank, her parents send her East to college, hoping she'll come back a lady.

Rowdy Ann

1919

Rowdy Ann poster
5.4

Ann is one tough cowgirl. After she beats up Hank, her parents send her East to college, hoping she'll come back a lady.

Rowdy Ann

1919

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mister Wife

1926

No artwork available
8.0

Billy Dooley is a suspicious husband who, as a private detective, takes a job from a woman who thinks her husband is running around with another woman. The latter is actually Billy's wife, who is buying a car from the man as a present for Billy. But Billy doesn't know that.

Smart Work

1931

The Birth of a Baby poster
10.0

Mrs. Burgess explains menstruation to her teen-aged daughter by showing her diagrams in a medical book. Her daughter-in-law Mary then tells Mrs. Burgess that she wishes that she, too, knew more about her body. She also reveals that she may be expecting a baby and is apprehensive about her safety and the changes that a new baby will bring to her life.

The Birth of a Baby

1938

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hitchin' Up

1926

No artwork available
6.5

The Ritz Brothers cause chaos in a bankrupt hotel.

Hotel Anchovy

1934

No artwork available
NR

When Tim Ryan's leading lady walks out in a small hillbilly town, the leading lady he selects -- at gunpoint -- is dumb bell Irene Ryan.

One Big Happy Family

1935

My Stars poster
6.2

Johnny tries hard to impress his girl, but she seems to be much more interested in movie stars.

My Stars

1926

No artwork available
NR

A hilarious tale of Caesar running the "Rome Morning After," and having a row with Marc Antony over Cleopatra.

When Caesar Ran a Newspaper

1929

No artwork available
9.0

This film will be liked by hen-pecked husbands and those who like to slip out evenings for a game of draw. But the moral is: Don't let your friend's apartment be raided by the police.

Four of a Kind

1919

Tillie's Punctured Romance poster
6.5

The ring master is plotting to get the circus owner done away with in a lion cage so he can take over.

Tillie's Punctured Romance

1928

No artwork available
9.0

The boys are fagged with the long summer's work and are undecided where to spend their vacation. One day Eddie is idly looking over the paper when he sees that a young man has met and married a wealthy heiress at the beach; suddenly, nothing but the beach will suit them. Eddie sees the boss and they are given permission to take a vacation.

An Heiress for Two

1913

No artwork available
9.0

The boys are fagged with the long summer's work and are undecided where to spend their vacation. One day Eddie is idly looking over the paper when he sees that a young man has met and married a wealthy heiress at the beach; suddenly, nothing but the beach will suit them. Eddie sees the boss and they are given permission to take a vacation.

An Heiress for Two

1913

Love in September poster
9.0

The story of a kindly old lady, her involvement with midget race cars and their drivers.

Love in September

1936

No artwork available
9.0

Harry Barris and Audrey Ferris want to get married, and her father, Harry Holman, likes Barris' piano playing. However, he hates it when Barris sings songs like "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal, You".

That Rascal

1932

No artwork available
10.0

Two men inadvertently create a mechanical menace

The Inventors

1934

Air Parade poster
10.0

Niela is tired of her children's hour radio program and with the help of Lee they frame the station's top executive so that she will get a break on a big time program.

Air Parade

1938

Charley's Aunt poster
NR

Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits with Amy and Kitty, niece and ward of crusty Stephen Spettigue. Complications begin when Fancourt, in drag, becomes the love object of old Spettigue and Sir Francis Chesney.

Charley's Aunt

1925

Hot Scotch poster
7.0

A Paramount-Christie comedy from 1928.

Hot Scotch

1948

See My Lawyer poster
7.0

Robert Gardner and Billy Noble become interested in a machine capable--according to the inventor, Trueman--of producing artificial rubber. A trust is formed, circulars are sent out, and a demonstration is requested. When Billy discovers that the invention is fraudulent and refuses to demonstrate it, the trust lawyer becomes suspicious and notifies postal authorities. Robert feigns insanity, and Trueman accepts an offer of $1 million for the formula, which experts later discover produces an indestructible paving block.

See My Lawyer

1921

See My Lawyer poster
7.0

Robert Gardner and Billy Noble become interested in a machine capable--according to the inventor, Trueman--of producing artificial rubber. A trust is formed, circulars are sent out, and a demonstration is requested. When Billy discovers that the invention is fraudulent and refuses to demonstrate it, the trust lawyer becomes suspicious and notifies postal authorities. Robert feigns insanity, and Trueman accepts an offer of $1 million for the formula, which experts later discover produces an indestructible paving block.

See My Lawyer

1921

No artwork available
5.0

Jimmy, who buys everything on the Easy Payment plan, wants to marry Betty, whose dad believes Cash Is King.

Easy Payments

1919

Mary's Merry Mix-Up poster
10.0

Father objects to Jack, Mary's new husband, believing him to be merely a flirtatious lifeguard. Mary's brother is in town and Jack believes her brother is something more-- that she may be 'false'. Jack disguises himself as the family's new butler to investigate.

Mary's Merry Mix-Up

1917

Mary's Merry Mix-Up poster
10.0

Father objects to Jack, Mary's new husband, believing him to be merely a flirtatious lifeguard. Mary's brother is in town and Jack believes her brother is something more-- that she may be 'false'. Jack disguises himself as the family's new butler to investigate.

Mary's Merry Mix-Up

1917

Charley's Aunt poster
6.7

A student is pressured into pretending to be a classmate's Aunt so he can act as a false chaperone.

Charley's Aunt

1930

No artwork available
9.0

When wild horse Emma (Trixie the Horse) keeps opening the gates and freeing horses, ranch owner Molly (Molly Malone) hires Jimmie (Jimmie Adams) to deal with the problem. When he tames Emma, however, jealous ranch hands tie him up and kidnap Molly, so it's Emma to the rescue!

Whoa, Emma!

1926

Her Friend, the Doctor poster
8.0

Jane Carston was to return tomorrow from Ohio, where she had been for the past three years in school, and the ranch was all agog with expectancy and cleanliness. Bob Evans, head cowboy, was most eager and most anxious of the lot. Tomorrow finally became today and Pa had gone to the station in his best linen duster and the buckboard to meet Jane. Finally, in a cloud of dust. Bob discerns them on the brow of the hill. Arriving at the house Jane greets mother with a rousing smack.

Her Friend, the Doctor

1912

No artwork available
NR

In this short film from Educational Pictures, comic Joe Cook plays the title character, Joe Widget. It begins with Widget receiving an award as the company's best salesman. Unfortunately, it was all a dream.

Mr. Widget

1935

When the Heart Calls poster
10.0

Dick Lee, while hunting, meets James Gordon, an old rancher, who invites him to his cabin. Here he meets the rancher's daughter Mary. They soon become fast friends, and the girl's heart is almost broken when, at the end of the boy's holidays, he is to return to the city. Mary makes him promise to write. Back in the city, Dick tries to forget the country girl, and, as he is engaged to Lillian West, life is very gay indeed. Somehow, he cannot forget the little girl back on the ranch. The promised letter, however, is never written. Mary looks every day for the letter that does not come, and her father is very sad to see her pine away. At last he cannot stand it longer, and makes up his mind to go to the city and hunt Dick up.

When the Heart Calls

1912

Dangerous Females poster
10.0

Roommates panic and plan when they hear a radio report of a murderer loose in their neighborhood.

Dangerous Females

1929

No artwork available
7.0

Dick Martin, foreman of the Circle E ranch, tells Colonel Gray that his mother is coming to visit them for a short time. The Colonel thinks it's a fine opportunity to invite his three nieces from the city, as Dick's mother could act as their chaperone.

The Girls and the Chaperone

1912

No artwork available
8.0

A satire on companionate marriage, in which both sides of a polyamorous married couple take lovers. But when this free love arrangement threatens to break up their comfortable domestic life, they throw them over in favor of an exclusive relationship.

The Stronger Sex

1930

No artwork available
9.0

An Al Cristie short starring Ethel Lynne & Jay Balasco.

Hard Luck

1919

No artwork available
9.0

An Al Cristie short starring Ethel Lynne & Jay Balasco.

Hard Luck

1919

No artwork available
7.0

Monte is running for mayor of Hollywood against a crooked gang member. When the mob kidnaps Monte, it's up to the Hollywood Actors Club to save him.

Hollywood Runaround

1932

Hubby's Night Out poster
6.5

Neal hates to give up his evenings with "the boys." even for his wife Betty. She gets a burglar scare and insists on his staying home. However, he wants to go to a masked ball, so he gives her a powder, telling her it will make her sleep soundly. She slips the powder into his favorite decanter, hides his costume, and then retires. In the kitchen, the cook gives a policeman some of the doped whiskey. Neal takes the cop's coat, hat, and stick and starts for the ball. On the way he is called on to restrain a wife-beating husband. He gets a black eye, so decides to go home.

Hubby's Night Out

1917

Madame Behave poster
6.0

A cross-dressing farce, adapted from "Madame Lucy" by Jean Arlette, in which to help a friend in a lawsuit, Jack Mitchell disguises himself as the mysterious "Madame Brown," a missing witness important to the case of the plaintiff. He attracts the romantic attention of two old roués and one hot Broadway showgirl.

Madame Behave

1925

No artwork available
7.0

Miss Klutz is the worst dancer that has ever enrolled at the school ran by Maestro Boris Cobblier, and he is even considering giving her money back to get rid of her, a consideration not to his financial liking. But the owner of a competing dance school has lost her prize dancer and calls on Cobblier with a request to borrow one of his dancers. Seeing a way to kill two birds with one stone---get rid of Miss Klutz and ruin a competitor---he gladly loans Miss Klutz out. But things don't work out just as he had planned.

Bashful Ballerina

1937