5.3/10 26 votes

Released:
1943-05-31

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.

Director:
Lance Comfort

Runtime:
1h 20min

Genre:
Comedy

• Cast:
• 
  Arthur Lucan
  as
  Old Mother Riley
• 
  Kitty McShane
  as
  Kitty Riley
• 
  Ivan Brandt
  as
  Inspector Victor Cole
• 
  Owen Reynolds
  as
  Kenworthy
• 
  George Street
  as
  Inspector Moresby