Syd Crossley

About a businessman (H.F.Maltby) who borrows his wife's pearls to cover a business loan, only for the pearls to then go missing.

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....

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

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...

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

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

Loud Soup is a comedy short

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

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...

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

Stan Laurel before Laurel and Hardy, in this "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"-inspired story, which was released 30 July 1925.

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 young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds...

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...

Dave Smalley buys a lost Archaeopteryx fossil by accident at an auction and uses the reward money for this to buy a share in his landlady's lodging-...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires...

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...

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

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.

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

'Man borrows service flat to impress girl's parents.' (British Film Catalogue)

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

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

A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and...

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

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...

A rich American businessman in London makes believe he's lost all his money so that his daughter will marry a composer.

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

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.

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...

The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule...

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

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...

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

A young English reporter makes a bet with a wealthy publisher that he can disappear for a month. In his absence the publisher makes much of the...

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...

A henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain!

A frugal coal miner turns into a spendthrift when he wins £20,000 on the football pools!

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

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

A beauty salon owner puts on a cabaret.

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

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

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...

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.

A British comedy film directed by John Rawlins

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

English-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and set aboard a fictional ship, called the...

Some sisters inherit a large sum of money.

Old Mother Riley is a British comedy film directed by Oswald Mitchell and starring Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Barbara Everest, Patrick Ludlow and...

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

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

The daughter of a mill-owner is sent undercover to the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.

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

An ape is suspected of committing a series of murders.

A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds...

A mild-mannered, somewhat mousy man is astounded when his reflection in a mirror comes to life and begins to do all the wild and crazy things that he...

Irresponsible playboy Arthur Rawlings is sent by his uncle to work as a waiter at a hotel in the South of France. Arthur arranges for shop assistant...

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...

A disgraced sea captain signs on as a crewman on a cargo ship. He discovers that the vessel is captained by the very man who stole his ship, a...

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

A telephonist falls for her employer.

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.

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