Old Mother Riley Detective (1943)

Directors

Lance Comfort

Cast

Alfredo Campoli, Arthur Lucan, H. F. Maltby, Hal Gordon, Johnnie Schofield, Kitty McShane, Peggy Cummins

The story

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 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.

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