Old Mother Riley (film)
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Old Mother Riley is a 1937 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.
Cinema of the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...
comedy film
Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...
directed by Oswald Mitchell
Oswald Mitchell
Oswald Albert Mitchell was a British film director who directed several of the Old Mother Riley series of films.-Selected filmography:* Such Is the Law * Danny Boy * Old Mother Riley...
and starring Arthur Lucan
Arthur Lucan
Arthur Lucan was an English actor who gained fame as Old Mother Riley on stage, radio and also screen, with a series of comedy films between the late 1930s and early 1950s.-Biography:...
, Kitty McShane
Kitty McShane
Kathleen "Kitty" McShane is best known as the wife and acting partner of Arthur Lucan, with whom she appeared in a series of Old Mother Riley stage shows and films from the 1930s to the 1950s.-Early life:Catherine McShane was the fourth of seventeen children born to Daniel and Kate McShane, of...
, Barbara Everest
Barbara Everest
Barbara Everest was a British film actress. She was born in Southfields, Surrey, and made her screen debut in the 1916 film The Man Without a Soul.-Selected filmography:* A Romance of Old Baghdad...
, Patrick Ludlow
Patrick Ludlow
-Selected filmography:* Watch Beverly * Chelsea Life * Evergreen * Love on the Spot * Gangway * Old Mother Riley, MP * The Farmer's Wife * Marriage of Convenience...
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
Old Mother Riley
Old Mother Riley was a music hall act which originally ran from about 1934 to 1954 played by Arthur Lucan, then from 1954 to 1977 by Roy Rolland....
series of films.
Cast
- Arthur LucanArthur LucanArthur Lucan was an English actor who gained fame as Old Mother Riley on stage, radio and also screen, with a series of comedy films between the late 1930s and early 1950s.-Biography:...
– Mrs Riley - Kitty McShaneKitty McShaneKathleen "Kitty" McShane is best known as the wife and acting partner of Arthur Lucan, with whom she appeared in a series of Old Mother Riley stage shows and films from the 1930s to the 1950s.-Early life:Catherine McShane was the fourth of seventeen children born to Daniel and Kate McShane, of...
– Kitty Riley - Barbara EverestBarbara EverestBarbara Everest was a British film actress. She was born in Southfields, Surrey, and made her screen debut in the 1916 film The Man Without a Soul.-Selected filmography:* A Romance of Old Baghdad...
– Mrs Briggs - Patrick LudlowPatrick Ludlow-Selected filmography:* Watch Beverly * Chelsea Life * Evergreen * Love on the Spot * Gangway * Old Mother Riley, MP * The Farmer's Wife * Marriage of Convenience...
– Edwin Briggs - Hubert Leslie – Captain Lawson
- Edith SharpeEdith Sharpe-Selected filmography:* The Education of Elizabeth * Music Hath Charms * The Tenth Man * When the Bough Breaks * That Dangerous Age * Landfall * No Place for Jennifer...
– Matilda Lawson - Syd CrossleySyd CrossleySyd Crossley was an English film actor. He appeared in 114 films between 1925 and 1942.He was born in London, England and died in Troon, Scotland...
– Butler - Edgar DriverEdgar Driver-Selected filmography:* Say It With Flowers * The Admiral's Secret * Designing Women * Stepping Toes * Sunset in Vienna * The Agitator * The Grand Escapade * Private's Progress...
– Bill Jones - Dorothy Vernon – Aggie Sparks
- Vanessa Sproggett – Betty Swallocks