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Old Mother Riley Detective (1943)
Directed by Lance Comfort
Comedy · 1h 20m
A night watchman is being bludgeoned, as a safe is cracked open in the offices of the District Food Controller. A list of wartime foods to be rationed is stolen, and the police fear gangsters are planning to sell the foods on the black market. As the office charwoman, Old Mother Riley's fingerprints are all over the safe, and she becomes the police's number one suspect. To prove her innocence, Mother Riley turns detective, adopting various methods and disguises to track down the villains.
Cast
Arthur Lucan
Old Mother Riley
Kitty McShane
Kitty Riley
I
Ivan Brandt
Inspector Victor Cole
O
Owen Reynolds
Kenworthy
G
George Street
Inspector Moresby
Johnnie Schofield
P.C. Jimmy Green
H
Hal Gordon
Bill
V
Valentine Dunn
Elsie
H
H.F. Maltby
H. G. Popplethwaite
Peggy Cummins
Lily
A
Alfredo Campoli
Solo Violinist
Crew
- Director
- Lance Comfort
- Writer
- Barbara K. Emary, Arthur Lucan, Austin Melford, Geoffrey Orme
- Director of Photography
- James Wilson
- Editor
- E.W. White
- Producer
- John Baxter
Details
- Release date
- 1943-05-31
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- British National Films