Mother Riley Detective - 1943

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.

The film opens with a night watchman 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
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.

Arthur Lucan ... Mrs. 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
Alfredo Campoli ... Solo Violinist