Syd Crossley Movies

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

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

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....

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

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-...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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.

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.

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

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.