Syd Crossley Movies

A useless secretary and his private detective friend try to help an heiress from being swindled by her guardian.

A man finds out that his wife wishes he would act more like his twin brother, so he decides to impersonate his twin in an attempt to determine his...

A young English reporter makes a bet with a wealthy publisher that he can disappear for a month. In his absence the publisher makes much of the...

In this musical comedy, the trouble begins when a carefree playboy steals the virtue of a young French maiden and is forced to marry her when her...

An American reporter takes over an assignment on English farm life. Owing to a mistake in identity things turn out rough but Valerie's charm and...

During the First World War a British unit take up a new position in a trench unaware that the Germans are laying a mine underneath it.

Slapstick comedy in which luckless slate club treasurer Bill Smithers is sent to prison for three years after being mistakenly accused of stealing...

A British comedy film directed by John Rawlins

“Professional jealousy over the discovery of a formula for an anaesthetic leads to murder in a hospital.” - BFI.

Two thieves are released from prison; one of them has an umbrella with jewels hidden in its handle.

A worker at a gramphone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song.

Mother Riley takes over a circus on the point of closing down, and makes it a success.

Based on the spectacular rise of bandleader and vaudevillian Harry Roy, this is the comic tale of a Ruritanian princess who elopes with a dance-band...

Two business partners are having woman trouble. One wants to marry his secretary and the other is set to marry a wealthy aristocrat. When the partner...

After it has been sold to a new owner,a shyster and killer has stolen the property deed to a valuable mine and is using it for blackmail purposes....

Posing as an aristocrat to crash a party, a composer stumbles upon a gang of jewel thieves working unnoticed upstairs.

A newsboy enters a boxing championship where he is matched with a sick friend.

Our hero catches a gang of bank robbers while taking time out to romance the banker's pretty daughter.

A jealous agent uses a girl singer to break up a double act.