Number of Movies: 15
Overview
A series of films about the misadventures of Old Mother Riley, an old Irish washerwoman, and her daughter Kitty.
Von Housen
Old Mother Riley
Tilly
Anton Daschomb
P.C. Freddie
Mrs Jenks
The Yokel
Mugsy
Freda
Hitchcock
Mrs. Mott
BBC Announcer
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August 13, 1937
Old Mother Riley is a British comedy film directed by Oswald Mitchell and starring Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Barbara Everest, Patrick Ludlow and Hubert Leslie. Mother Riley and her daughter stop the plans of some disinherited relatives to overturn the terms of a will. It was the first in the Old Mother Riley series of films.
March 2, 1938
Old Mother Riley falls into money so goes to Paris, where she is mistaken for a spy.
August 15, 1939
Old Mother Riley loses her laundry job and then battles her ex-boss in a parliamentary election.
September 18, 1939
Mother Riley plays a nurse who was forced to volunteer for the Auxiliary Territorial Service. Mayhem ensues until she is able to prevent German spies from acquiring important documents.
July 27, 1940
Old Mother Riley does the laundry for the dancers in the pantomime "Aladdin", where her daughter Kitty works as a chorus girl. Sneaking a peek at the show one day, Mother Riley accidentally pops up through a trap door onto the stage. Accosted by the angry star, Mother Riley’s belligerent responses have the audience in stitches. Outraged, the star walks out, leaving Kitty to take over the leading role, to great success.
April 11, 1941
Old Mother Riley starts a new business.
December 10, 1941
Mother Riley takes over a circus on the point of closing down, and makes it a success.
June 8, 1941
Old Mother Riley gets involved in a plot to steal an invention
June 1, 1943
Mrs. Riley is tricked out of her license for a pub and joins her daughter in Portugal.
May 31, 1943
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.
December 24, 1945
Old Mother Riley and her daughter's true love, Dan, go in search of Kitty who has run off with her new boyfriend to a gambling den.
July 1, 1949
Old Mother Riley becomes manager of a hotel - stolen diamonds, murder and pie fights follow.
December 31, 1950
The 13th film in the Old Mother Riley series.
January 1, 1951
Old Mother Riley runs into a ghost who turns out to be an old pirate searching for buried treasure.
July 11, 1952
The legendary Bela Lugosi as "the Vampire" teams up with Britain's much-loved "Mother Riley" in this hilarious comedy adventure. The Vampire plans to control the world with the help of his robot, which accidentally gets shipped to Mother Riley. Through radar control, he contacts the robot and orders it to come to him, bringing along Mother Riley! But his life is turned upside down when he holds this most meddling of mothers captive.
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