Syd Crossley Movies

A perpetual dreamer talks his wife into moving with him from their home in Australia to South Africa, where he hopes to discover gold and finally...

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 British comedy film directed by John Rawlins

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

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...

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...

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

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...

A Liverpool tug boat captain finds he's won a fortune on the penny pools and it changes his life. However, after giving up his job and throwing a...

A refined criminal keeps his life secret from his daughter. When he gets trouble from the police after shooting one of his underworld associates, he...

Vincent Floyd, a seeming lazy figure lounging around London Gentleman's Clubs is in fact a secret agent hot on the trail of Michael Marlowe whom he...

'American motor bandit takes over London garage and club.' (British Film Catalogue)

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

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...

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.

A window cleaner bumps into an old flame, and the pair turn detective in an attempt to foil a gang of burglars.

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

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

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

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...