Syd Crossley Movies

A woman prevents a popular stage performer getting arrested for drunk driving, though has to pretend to be a rich benefactor when she next meets him.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

After it has been sold to a new owner,a shyster and killer has stolen the property deed to a valuable mine and is using it for blackmail purposes....

When a bank executive disappears, he is accused of stealing a fortune from the bank. But his daughter and her criminologist friend set out to find...

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

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

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

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

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 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...

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