Syd Crossley Movies

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

A British comedy film directed by John Rawlins

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...

A telephonist falls for her employer.

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

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

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

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-...

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

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 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...

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.

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

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