Syd Crossley Movies

An impoverished team of composer and songwriter try to secure financial backing for their new musical, with the assistance of a struggling actress...

A rich American businessman in London makes believe he's lost all his money so that his daughter will marry a composer.

A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which the son (John Mills) of a stern magistrate (Will Hay) visits a music hall...

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.

A telephonist falls for her employer.

A British submarine on patrol is accidentally rammed by a merchant ship, that tears a big hole in in sub which sinks trapping the crew.

A newly-married woman disguises herself as a doughboy in order to stay close to her husband.

A police captain poses as the valet of a friend who has been invited on a yacht cruise by a notorious schemer, whom the friend is afraid wants to...

Stan Laurel before Laurel and Hardy, in this "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"-inspired story, which was released 30 July 1925.

An aunt objects to the romance between her niece and a neighbour's nephew, and steps in to put an end to the love affair – with comic...

English-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and set aboard a fictional ship, called the...

In 'The Circus Kid', Buddy, an orphan who runs away from a a harsh orphanage, joins Cadwallader's Circus.

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.

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...

'Romance set around the famous air race in which a girl helps a nervous pilot to victory.' (British Film Institute)

A trombonist becomes mayor of a small town, but he struggles to cope with municipal issues.

Monty Banks gets involved in tracking down a stolen fortune, his adventures culminating in a whirlwind, gag-filled climax at sea.

The son of a stodgy British earl falls in love with the daughter of an American millionaire businessman. The fathers oppose the relationship.