Sydney Howard Movies

'Newlywed tries to get back gift garter from honeymoon bride.' (British Film Catalogue)

A young woman falls in love with an aristocrat and tries to convince his parents that she is herself wealthy.

Once a Crook is a 1941 British crime film directed by Herbert Mason and featuring Gordon Harker, Sydney Howard, Bernard Lee, Kathleen Harrison, and...

'Stableboy buys ruined employer's horse and wins Derby.' (British Film Catalogue)

Underworld king Lee Lother has been killed aboard a ocean liner, several people could have been the murderer. There is his mistress Anya Roysen, a...

An inventor is mistaken for his twin brother, and is forced to take his brother's place in the Royal Air Force.

A lancashire singer buys a pub in Clydebank and hits money troubles when the shipbyards are closed. She takes a petition to London to try to get them...

An out of work show girl poses as a nurse and undertakes the job of looking after Clinton Clay, a composer and playboy, jilted by his Russian wife....

The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that...

'Farcical comedy of matrimonial complications in which a bibulous man almost wrecks his friend's marriage.' (British Film Institute)

The hall porter at an Oxbridge College inherits an Earldom and enjoys a series of adventures.

Splinters tells of the origins of the 1915 musical comedy revue of the same name, founded by British soldiers fighting on the Western Front in France.

Comedy film...

To celebrate their Admiral's impending marriage, his men stage a variety performance. Meanwhile Joe Crabbs attempts to win back his girlfriend from...

A trombonist becomes mayor of a small town, but he struggles to cope with municipal issues.

During World War I, Captain's wife Dorothy Glenister finds it hard being separated from her husband, so she travels to France to the village where...

Comedy of an incompetent photographer and scoutmaster who achieves his wife's ambition for him of office with the local council more by luck than...

A Yorkshireman comes to London to watch the FA Cup final and loses his money and tickets, leading to a frantic search to recover them...

'Insurance agent poses as royal double and saves him from anarchists.' (British Film Catalogue)

A British comedy about a blacksmith who in looking to get away from his wife discovers a talent for rugby league.