Syd Crossley Movies

Pat Heaton may be the best crime reporter in town but his fiancée Claire, despairing of the more tawdry aspects of his profession, makes him...

An ape is suspected of committing a series of murders.

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...

Betsy, a housemaid and aspiring actress, throws a party in her employer's house while he's away. Guests include agents and producers; but her...

George Formby, who plays George, a stable boy. He also has the unique ability to soothe an anxious racing horse. Expectedly, George races the horse...

An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall.

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

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.

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

A British comedy film directed by John Rawlins

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...

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

Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them. Young Morris Goldfish follows...

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

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

In this comedy a pair of aspiring music hall entertainers attempt to live their dream while saving their landlady's daughter from ruin.

'Poor lord tells future father-in-law that his ex-fiancée is his sister.' (British Film Catalogue)

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 woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.

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