Syd Courtenay Movies

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

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

A music-hall star and his best mate are conned out of their earnings (twice!) and left with nothing but a beloved greyhound.

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

A comedy film directed by Monty Banks.

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...

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...

British comedy film directed by Leslie Pearce.

In India, a British soldier saves the jeweled eye of a sacred idol.

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

A barge operator helps a schoolteacher tackle a gang of criminals.

A man sponges off an old comrade from the First World War who believes he has saved his life during the war, although this ultimately proves not to...

A butcher and a draper stand for election to the local council.

A musical comedy directed by Monty Banks. A cook recalls a night spent in a French estaminet in 1915.

A north-country chimney sweep standing for Parliament is opposed by a local bigwig. His campaign is imperiled when his artist son, Tony, falls in...

This lively comedy of 1933 provided an early film role for Leslie Fuller, and sees the wildly popular, rubber-faced actor and entertainer –...

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

When their ship arrives in an Arabian port, the sailors are given shore leave among them Bill Biggles, who has previously had little success with...

Darby is a blind girl and Joan is her elder sister. The story revolves around Joan's passion for Yorke - an idle scamp - and her marriage to his...

Two ship's cooks get lost in the desert and unwittingly enroll in the Foreign Legion!