Syd Crossley Movies

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

A cleaner salesman finds himself campaigning for both sides in an election.

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

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

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...

An ape is suspected of committing a series of murders.

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

A beauty salon owner puts on a cabaret.

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

The owner of a professional help agency poses as a poet at a wealthy patron's ball and prevents a necklace from being stolen by thieves.

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

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

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.

Gold-digger Molly marries the heir to a fortune, but things go badly when he is disinherited and starts working as a ditch digger.

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

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...

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...

The Very Reverend Richard Jedd has a problem: the church spire, now in a parlous state of repair, will cost nearly £1,000 to fix. When various...

The Boy, involved in a maritime disaster as a child, suffers from hydrophobia. He invents a life preserver that automatically inflates when it hits...

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.