Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure - Revision history

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	'''''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 (franchise)\|''Carry On'']] regular [[Peter Butterworth]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://skymovies.sky.com/old-mother-rileys-jungle-treasure/review \|title=Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure - Sky Movies HD \|publisher=Skymovies.sky.com \|date=2002-05-23 \|access-date=2014-02-22}}</ref>		'''''Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure''''' is a low budget 1951 British [[w:comedy film\|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 (franchise)\|''Carry On'']] regular [[Peter Butterworth]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://skymovies.sky.com/old-mother-rileys-jungle-treasure/review \|title=Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure - Sky Movies HD \|publisher=Skymovies.sky.com \|date=2002-05-23 \|access-date=2014-02-22}}</ref>

	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.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://zagria.blogspot.co.uk/2008/09/old-mother-riley.html#.UwUu-mJ_uKU \|title=A Gender Variance Who's Who: Old Mother Riley \|publisher=Zagria.blogspot.co.uk \|date=2008-09-10 \|access-date=2014-02-22}}</ref>		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.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://zagria.blogspot.co.uk/2008/09/old-mother-riley.html#.UwUu-mJ_uKU \|title=A Gender Variance Who's Who: Old Mother Riley \|publisher=Zagria.blogspot.co.uk \|date=2008-09-10 \|access-date=2014-02-22}}</ref>

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{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2016}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure
| image = "Old_Mother_Riley's_Jungle_Treasure"_(1951).jpg
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| border =
| alt =
| caption =
| director = [[Maclean Rogers]]
| producer = [[Maclean Rogers]]
| writer =
| screenplay = [[Val Valentine]]
| story =
| based_on =
| narrator =
| starring = [[Arthur Lucan]]<br>[[Kitty McShane]]
| music = [[Wilfred Burns]]
| cinematography = [[James Wilson (cinematographer)|James Wilson]]
| editing = Anne Barker
| studio = Oakland Films
| distributor = [[Renown Pictures]]
| released = 1951
| runtime = 75 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
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'''''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 (franchise)|''Carry On'']] regular [[Peter Butterworth]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://skymovies.sky.com/old-mother-rileys-jungle-treasure/review |title=Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure - Sky Movies HD |publisher=Skymovies.sky.com |date=2002-05-23 |access-date=2014-02-22}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://zagria.blogspot.co.uk/2008/09/old-mother-riley.html#.UwUu-mJ_uKU |title=A Gender Variance Who's Who: Old Mother Riley |publisher=Zagria.blogspot.co.uk |date=2008-09-10 |access-date=2014-02-22}}</ref>

==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.<ref name="tvguide1">{{cite web|url=http://movies.tvguide.com/old-mother-rileys-jungle-treasure/review/108063 |title=Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure Review |publisher=Movies.tvguide.com |access-date=2014-02-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.moviesunlimited.com/musite/product.asp?sku=D04113 |title=Buy Movies at Movies Unlimited - The Movie Collector's Site |publisher=Moviesunlimited.com |access-date=2014-02-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Beifuss |first=John |url=http://blogs.commercialappeal.com/the_bloodshot_eye/2010/06/old-mother-riley.html |title=An (Un)Real Mother For Ya: Old Mother Riley on DVD - The Bloodshot Eye |publisher=Blogs.commercialappeal.com |date=2010-06-15 |access-date=2014-02-22}}</ref>

==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")<ref>{{cite web|url=http://screensnapshots.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/law-of-jungle-1942-monogram-and.html |title=Screen Snapshots: Law of the Jungle (1942) - Monogram and the Importance of Mantan Moreland |publisher=Screensnapshots.blogspot.co.uk |date=2010-05-20 |access-date=2014-02-22}}</ref>

==Cast==
*Old Mother Riley ...[[Arthur Lucan]]
*Kitty ... [[Kitty McShane]]
*Jim ... [[Garry Marsh]]
*Captain Daincourt ... [[Cyril Chamberlain]]
*Chief 'Stinker' Carstairs ... [[Robert Adams (actor)|Robert Adams]]
*James Orders ... [[Roddy Hughes]]
*Harry Benson ... Willer Neal
*Estelle ... Anita D'ray
*Morgan the Pirate ... [[Sebastian Cabot (actor)|Sebastian Cabot]]
*Flying Officer Prang ... [[Bill Shine (actor)]]
*Steve ... [[Peter Butterworth]]
*Mr Benson ... [[Peter Swanwick]]
*Slim ... Harry Lane
*Jake ... [[Michael Ripper]]
*Air Hostess ... Maria Mercedes
*Ted ... Gerald Rex

==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]]."<ref name="tvguide1"/>
*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."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.moviemail.com/film/dvd/Old-Mother-Riley-In-Paris-MP/ |title=Old Mother Riley: In Paris & MP DVD | Classic Movies | Films by Movie Mail UK |publisher=Moviemail.com |date=2006-01-30 |access-date=2014-02-22}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0043876}}
{{Maclean Rogers}}

[[Category:1951 films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Maclean Rogers]]
[[Category:1951 comedy films]]
[[Category:British comedy films]]
[[Category:Films set in Africa]]
[[Category:British black-and-white films]]
[[Category:1950s English-language films]]
[[Category:1950s British films]]