Old Mother Riley Detective

The story

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.

In the same saga

Old Mother Riley Collection

In release order

Old Mother Riley

1937

Old Mother Riley in Paris

1938

Old Mother Riley, MP

1939

Old Mother Riley Joins Up

1939

See all films (15)

Old Mother Riley in Society

1940

Old Mother Riley in Business

1941

Old Mother Riley's Ghosts

1941

Old Mother Riley's Circus

1941

This film

Old Mother Riley Detective

1943

Old Mother Riley Overseas

1943

Old Mother Riley at Home

1945

Old Mother Riley's New Venture

1949

Old Mother Riley, Headmistress

1950

Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure

1951

Mother Riley Meets the Vampire

1952

Cast

A Arthur LucanOld Mother Riley K Kitty McShaneKitty Riley I Ivan BrandtInspector Victor Cole O Owen ReynoldsKenworthy G George StreetInspector Moresby J Johnnie SchofieldP.C. Jimmy Green H Hal GordonBill V Valentine DunnElsie H H.F. MaltbyH. G. Popplethwaite P Peggy CumminsLily A Alfredo CampoliSolo Violinist