Writing

Syd Courtenay

Acting credits

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7.0

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

Old Spanish Customers

1932

Cotton Queen poster
6.3

The niece of a mill-owner goes undercover in the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.

Cotton Queen

1937

Bill's Legacy poster
7.0

A comedy film directed by Harry Revier.

Bill's Legacy

1931

Why Sailors Leave Home poster
7.0

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 women. Visiting a sheik who has long been under obligation to him, Bill is welcomed at the palace, and the polygamous ruler, who has abducted a damsel, decides to absent himself and appoint Bill as his deputy. It seems Bill's luck is set to change dramatically until the wives decide to go on strike!

Why Sailors Leave Home

1930

Poor Old Bill poster
7.0

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 be true.

Poor Old Bill

1931

What a Night! poster
8.0

While staying at a reportedly haunted inn a traveller discovers that the 'ghost' is a thief.

What a Night!

1931

Kiss Me Sergeant poster
10.0

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

Kiss Me Sergeant

1930

Boys Will Be Girls poster
7.3

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 awaits the reading of the will. Ready to celebrate their fortunes the family gathers the evening before with a big party. A great assortment of characters, comic ones, are all expecting to get their share of the inheritance.

Boys Will Be Girls

1938

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10.0

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

Lost In The Legion

1934

Tonight's the Night - Pass It On poster
10.0

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

Tonight's the Night - Pass It On

1931

The Pride of the Force poster
9.0

This lively comedy of 1933 provided an early film role for Leslie Fuller, and sees the wildly popular, rubber-faced actor and entertainer – once touted as Elstree's own Clark Gable – playing identical twins with very different ambitions: one is a policeman who longs to join a circus, the other a farm hand who wants to be a policeman!

The Pride of the Force

1933

Not So Quiet on the Western Front poster
7.0

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

Not So Quiet on the Western Front

1930

Behind the camera

Hawleys of High Street poster
9.0

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

Hawleys of High Street

1933

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8.0

British comedy film directed by Leslie Pearce.

The Stoker

1935

Everything Is Rhythm poster
7.0

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 leader.

Everything Is Rhythm

1936

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7.0

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

The Last Coupon

1932

The Man Behind the Mask poster
5.3

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

The Man Behind the Mask

1936

Bill's Legacy poster
7.0

A comedy film directed by Harry Revier.

Bill's Legacy

1931

A Political Party poster
9.0

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 love with a girl who has reason to hope that the bigwig will be elected.

A Political Party

1934

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8.0

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

Captain Bill

1935

What a Night! poster
8.0

While staying at a reportedly haunted inn a traveller discovers that the 'ghost' is a thief.

What a Night!

1931

Darby and Joan poster
6.3

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 uncle, the family benefactor.

Darby and Joan

1937

The Outcast poster
5.8

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

The Outcast

1934

Not So Quiet on the Western Front poster
7.0

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

Not So Quiet on the Western Front

1930