Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure

Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure is a low budget 1951 British comedy film, the penultimate in the long running Old Mother Riley series starring Arthur Lucan and Kitty McShane. It features an early appearance by future Carry On regular Peter Butterworth.[1]

Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure
Directed byMaclean Rogers
Produced byMaclean Rogers
Screenplay byVal Valentine
StarringArthur Lucan
Kitty McShane
Music byWilfred Burns
CinematographyJames Wilson
Edited byAnne Barker
Production
company
Oakland Films
Distributed byRenown Pictures
Release date
1951
Running time
75 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Husband and wife Arthur Lucan and Kitty McShane had separated by the time of production, and were touring in different "Old Mother Riley" shows. This was Kitty's final Mother Riley film, and her scenes with Lucan were reputedly shot on separate days.[2]

Plot summary

Mother Riley, working in an antique shop with daughter Kitty, uncovers a secret treasure map hidden in the headboard of an antique bed. With the help of the ghost of the pirate Captain Morgan, mother and daughter head for a remote tropical island in the South Seas, and begin their hunt for buried treasure. Not only do they find the fortune, but Mother Riley ends up celebrated by natives as a tribal queen.[3][4][5]

Sample gag

"All the supposed cannibal tribesman are in actual fact ex-Oxford graduates who spend their time (in full tribal dress) listening to the cricket on the short wave radio." ("Screensnapshots.blogspot.co.uk") [6]

Cast

Critical reception
  • TV Guide called the movie, a "relentlessly absurd farce...A film in the stylized vein of British comedy (as are all the pictures in the "Old Mother Riley" series) that continues through the films of Monty Python."[3]
  • David Parkinson writes in Moviemail.com, " a discreet veil should be drawn over the last third of Jungle Treasure (1951), as its racial stereotyping outdoes anything seen in a Tarzan adventure."[7]

References
  1. "Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure - Sky Movies HD". Skymovies.sky.com. 23 May 2002. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  2. "A Gender Variance Who's Who: Old Mother Riley". Zagria.blogspot.co.uk. 10 September 2008. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  3. "Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure Review". Movies.tvguide.com. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  4. "Buy Movies at Movies Unlimited - The Movie Collector's Site". Moviesunlimited.com. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  5. Beifuss, John (15 June 2010). "An (Un)Real Mother For Ya: Old Mother Riley on DVD - The Bloodshot Eye". Blogs.commercialappeal.com. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  6. "Screen Snapshots: Law of the Jungle (1942) - Monogram and the Importance of Mantan Moreland". Screensnapshots.blogspot.co.uk. 20 May 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  7. "Old Mother Riley: In Paris & MP DVD | Classic Movies | Films by Movie Mail UK". Moviemail.com. 30 January 2006. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
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