Syd Courtenay Movies

The daughter of a mill-owner is sent undercover to the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.

While staying at a reportedly haunted inn a traveller discovers that the 'ghost' is a thief.

A man sponges off an old comrade from the First World War who believes he has saved his life during the war, although this ultimately proves not to...

A north-country chimney sweep standing for Parliament is opposed by a local bigwig. His campaign is imperiled when his artist son, Tony, falls in...

A henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain!

A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and...

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...

When their ship arrives in an Arabian port, the sailors are given shore leave among them Bill Biggles, who has previously had little success with...

British comedy film directed by Leslie Pearce.

Darby is a blind girl and Joan is her elder sister. The story revolves around Joan's passion for Yorke - an idle scamp - and her marriage to his...

A musical comedy directed by Monty Banks. A cook recalls a night spent in a French estaminet in 1915.

This lively comedy of 1933 provided an early film role for Leslie Fuller, and sees the wildly popular, rubber-faced actor and entertainer –...

Matronly great aunt Emily went off to Africa and left behind her wanna be snobbish family. Ten years later, upon her death, the greedy family members...

A comedy film directed by Monty Banks.

A music-hall star and his best mate are conned out of their earnings (twice!) and left with nothing but a beloved greyhound.

In India, a British soldier saves the jeweled eye of a sacred idol.

Two ship's cooks get lost in the desert and unwittingly enroll in the Foreign Legion!

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

A frugal coal miner turns into a spendthrift when he wins £20,000 on the football pools!

A barge operator helps a schoolteacher tackle a gang of criminals.