Old Mother Riley Detective (1943)
1h 20m
Running Time
May 31, 1943Release Date
Old Mother Riley Detective (1943)
1h 20m
Running Time
May 31, 1943Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Arthur Lucan
Mother Riley
Kitty McShane
Kitty
Ivan Brandt
Detective Inspector Victor Cole
Owen Reynolds
Kenworthy
George Street
Police Inspector
Johnnie Schofield
Bashful policeman
Edgar Driver
Bob
H.F. Maltby
H. G. Popplethwaite
Hal Gordon
Bill
Valentine Dunn
Elsie
Peggy Cummins
Lily
Alfredo Campoli
Solo Violinist
Lance Comfort
Director
C. Wilfred Arnold
Art Direction
Harold V. King
Sound Supervisor
Austin Melford
Writer
Details.
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Old Mother Riley Detective is a 1943 British comedy film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane and Hal Gordon. It was part of the long running Old Mother Riley series. Old Mother Riley investigates the disappearance of food during the war, a serious crime because of rationing.
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