Old Mother Riley Detective

Overview

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

Arthur Lucan

Old Mother Riley

Kitty McShane

Kitty Riley

Ivan Brandt

Inspector Victor Cole

Owen Reynolds

Kenworthy

George Street

Inspector Moresby

Johnnie Schofield

P.C. Jimmy Green

Hal Gordon

Bill

Valentine Dunn

Elsie

H.F. Maltby

H. G. Popplethwaite

Peggy Cummins

Lily