CinemaOSMovie · 1943 · 1h 20m

Old Mother Riley Detective

70%(3)IMDbComedy

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.

Directed byLance Comfort

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 20m
Language
EN
Released
May 31, 1943
Studios
British National Films

Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring
Arthur Lucan

Arthur Lucan

Old Mother Riley

Kitty McShane

Kitty McShane

Kitty Riley

Ivan Brandt

Inspector Victor Cole

Owen Reynolds

Kenworthy

George Street

Inspector Moresby

Johnnie Schofield

Johnnie Schofield

P.C. Jimmy Green

Hal Gordon

Bill

Valentine Dunn

Elsie

H.F. Maltby

H. G. Popplethwaite

Peggy Cummins

Peggy Cummins

Lily

Creative team
Directed by
Lance Comfort
Written by
Barbara K. Emary
Arthur Lucan
Arthur Lucan
Produced by
John Baxter

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