Syd Courtenay
Writer
Movies12
Movie10.0ComedySlapstick 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 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyWhen 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 · 1 votes
Movie6.2ComedyRomanceThe niece of a mill-owner goes undercover in the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.
Cotton Queen
1937 · 4 votes
Movie7.0MusicComedyA 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 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0Comedy
Two ship's cooks get lost in the desert and unwittingly enroll in the Foreign Legion!
Lost In The Legion
1934 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyThis 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 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0Comedy
A henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain!
Old Spanish Customers
1932 · 2 votes
Movie7.3ComedyMatronly 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 · 3 votes
Movie7.0ComedyA comedy film directed by Harry Revier.
Bill's Legacy
1931 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyA 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 · 2 votes
Movie10.0ComedyIn India, a British soldier saves the jeweled eye of a sacred idol.
Kiss Me Sergeant
1930 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ComedyCrimeWhile staying at a reportedly haunted inn a traveller discovers that the 'ghost' is a thief.
What a Night!
1931 · 1 votes