Old Mother Riley Detective

Overview

Comedy

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 & crew

Old Mother RileyArthur Lucan

Kitty RileyKitty McShane

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Inspector Victor ColeIvan Brandt

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KenworthyOwen Reynolds

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Inspector MoresbyGeorge Street

P.C. Jimmy GreenJohnnie Schofield

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BillHal Gordon

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ElsieValentine Dunn

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H. G. PopplethwaiteH.F. Maltby

LilyPeggy Cummins

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Solo ViolinistAlfredo Campoli

• Lance Comfort · Director
• Barbara K. Emary · Writer
• Arthur Lucan · Writer
• Austin Melford · Writer
• Geoffrey Orme · Writer