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Another winner for the great variety act of Old Mother Riley and Kitty. How can any body judge this great variety act if they are not aware of the bill topping pull they had both on stage and in the series of movies they made,which are collectors items. This heap of fun is when the irish washer woman stands as an M.P. after getting the sack from the irish wash house where she works. every movement and line is a treasure, if you have watched this and did not think it funny watch again and listen to every word and watch the perfect timed action.You will soon want more. See how mother Riley, takes on the other M.P.'s and becomes the P.M. good clean fun for both kids and adults, if only it was possible to see all the series as half the films are missing. At least this one is saved.

Despite its age, this movie shows why the "Old Mother Riley" productions were so popular. The title character is very funny in speech and movements. The theme is that someone who can be dismissed as a idiotic old woman is actually a popular woman who has the support of her down to earth daughter and friends. That those who think of the welfare of others triumph over those who are only interested in themselves.

When Mother Riley finds out that her ex-boss plans to stand for parliament and pull down her and her neighbours houses, she decides to stand against him. At first, it is taken as a joke but the villain of the movie soon realises he has to resort to underhand methods to stop her.

Good quality transfer to DVD. This is one of the best in the series, with a cracking script, showing off Arthur Lucan's over the top washerwoman, Old Mother Riley character to it's best. The plot has Lucan getting he sack from the laundry after a quarrel with its owner and perspective candidate for Parliament.Riley finds out that he wishes to pull down their homes and the local pub and decides to stand for Parliament herself.The social points of the haves and the have-nots are as fresh today as it was in the year of release 1939.Riley is appointed Minister of Strange Affairs,(there should be one of those!) and in a stupid ending to a good farce, forces an Emperor of a tin pot country called Rocavia to cough up a dept of £50,000,000 owing to Britain. Very topical you see. This also benefits with Kitty Mcshane, his real wife at the time, being sidelined from much of the plot. Third billed and looking like some 1950s beefcake actor is Brit Torin Thatcher,later to be a brilliant villain in The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958).Well worth a look.

F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre is wrong to suggest that the name Butcher's Film Service was a play on the Cockney rhyming slang phrase "butcher's hook." Butcher's Films was one of the earliest and longest-surviving British film production companies and distributors, founded by William Butcher and later taken over by his sons William and Fred. Beginning as a chemist in 1860, William Senior progressed to the manufacture of photographic goods, then lantern slides. He died 1904. His sons began film distribution around 1909. The last Butcher's release was Fantasm in 1978. Many Butcher's films are now on DVD on the Renown label. I'm writing about the fascinating history of Butcher's Films in the summer issue of "The Veteran". Postscript 2018: By the time I wrote the above review F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre had been dead for nearly a year. It's probable that his claims to have seen many lost films were untrue. Much of what he says in his IMDb reviews should be taken with a pinch of salt. He was, however, a prolific and talented sci fi writer.

Old Mother Riley MP is a daft but an enjoyable film with an over the top and manic performance by Arthur Lucan, who seems to be all arm movements and some innuendo as well.

Old Mother Riley gets sack from her job as a washer woman in a laundry after a quarrel with the laundry owner. When the owner stands for Parliament and plans to pull down the houses on her street, Old Mother Riley also decides to stand as well, leading to some dirty tricks by his rival.

When she is elected to Parliament, Old Mother Riley fights for social justice and becomes a Minister in the department of Strange Affairs where she pursues a European country that owes Britain some money.

There is an element of farce in this film and also surrealism when Old Mother Riley knocks on a door while canvassing, two kids play the husband and wife of the household with an overgrown man playing their child.

Mrs Brown from the BBC sitcom is really the modern version of Old Mother Riley with more swearing and smuttiness.