Syd Crossley Movies

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

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...

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

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

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

Maxwell Archer, a private detective, attempts to clear a young man wrongly accused of murder.

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

'Captain tries to hide accidental female passengers from admiral.' (British Film Catalogue)

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...

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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.