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Old Mother Riley in Society (1940)

Old Mother Riley in Society poster
Directed by
John Baxter
Genre
comedy film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 21m
Rating
7.7 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An Irish washerwoman gets a job working for a wealthy family. She causes chaos with her bumbling and clever insults.

lightheartedsillyfast-pacedwhimsicaldatedsimpleplayfulbroad comedy

What happens

Old Mother Riley in Society is a low budget 1940 black and white British comedy film, directed by John Baxter, and starring Arthur Lucan and Kitty McShane. It was written by Barbara K. Emary, Austin Melford, Bridget Boland and Mary Cathcart Borer from a story by McShane. It is the fifth in the long running Old Mother Riley series, and features the screen debut of Jimmy Clitheroe as the boot boy in a high society household. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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