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	\| director = [[Oswald Mitchell]]		\| director = [[Oswald Mitchell]]
	\| producer = [[Oswald Mitchell]]		\| producer = [[Oswald Mitchell]]
	\| writer = Con West		\| writer = Con West
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	\| starring = [[Arthur Lucan]]<br>[[Kitty McShane]]<br>[[Jerry Verno]]		\| starring = [[Arthur Lucan]]<br>[[Kitty McShane]]<br>[[Jerry Verno]]
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{{Infobox film
| name = Old Mother Riley in Paris
| image = "Old_Mother_Riley_in_Paris"_(1938).jpg
| caption =
| director = [[Oswald Mitchell]]
| producer = [[Oswald Mitchell]]
| writer = Con West
| story =
| narrator =
| starring = [[Arthur Lucan]]<br>[[Kitty McShane]]<br>[[Jerry Verno]]
| music = [[Percival Mackey]]
| cinematography = [[Geoffrey Faithfull]]
| editing = [[Cecil H. Williamson]]
| studio = [[Butcher's Film Service]]
| distributor = Butcher's Film Service
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1938}}
| runtime = 76 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
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'''''Old Mother Riley in Paris''''' is a 1938 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Oswald Mitchell]] and starring [[Arthur Lucan]], [[Kitty McShane]], Magda Kun and [[C. Denier Warren]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/44892 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090117091721/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/44892 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-01-17 |title=BFI | Film & TV Database | OLD MOTHER RILEY IN PARIS (1938) |publisher=Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk |date=2009-04-16 |access-date=2014-03-01}}</ref> It is the second in the [[Old Mother Riley]] series of films, and is also known by its re-release title, ''Old Mother Riley Catches a Quisling''.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7hgQRVaWL-gC&pg=PA47 |title=Ladies Or Gentlemen: A Pictorial History of Male Cross-dressing in the Movies - Jean-Louis Ginibre - Google Boeken |isbn=9781933231044 |access-date=2014-03-02|last1=Ginibre |first1=Jean-Louis |year=2005 }}</ref>

==Synopsis==
Old Mother Riley is sacked from her job as a step cleaner at the office where her daughter Kitty works. She goes home to make steak and kidney pudding for their lodger, Joe, who is vaguely engaged to Kitty, but distractedly pours castor oil into the gravy, with amusing results. Jo is not sure he wants to be tied down to Kitty (or her impossible mother) and arranges for his travel agency employers to post him to Paris for six months, much to Kitty's discomfiture. While changing a light bulb, Old Mother Riley has a fall from a stepladder, resulting in her hospitalisation: keen to claim the maximum amount on her insurance she alters her medical records for the worse, only to be carried off for an emergency operation when the doctors see how much appears to be "wrong" with her. However, the ruse works: just as bailiffs are arriving to remove all Old Mother Riley's furniture, her insurance agent arrives with £250 in cash, which she uses to pay off her rental arrears and treat Kitty and herself to an air flight to Paris, in order to check up on Joe, who has meanwhile become involved with a suspicious young Parisian lady (really a spy with code name "Madame Zero", who believes he is an English agent).

Old Mother Riley, terrified by the air flight, parachutes out of the plane and on landing is taken to a Paris police station, where the Commissioner locks her up as the suspected spy "Madame Zero". She escapes and joins Kitty in their luxurious Paris hotel, where they cause chaos (and a custard pie fight) in the restaurant, by mistakenly ordering a trolley-ful of trifles. Checking up on Joe, they find him dancing in a café with "Madame Zero". Kitty is heartbroken, and Old Mother Riley drags her rival to the police station, demanding the woman should be locked up for alienating Joe's affections. When it emerges that the girl is in fact the mysterious "Madame Zero", Old Mother Riley is awarded a medal by the French authorities. She and Kitty return to England (by boat) and are joined by the repentant Joe, finally welcomed into the household by Old Mother Riley, who toasts the couple with champagne which she has smuggled through customs.

==Cast==
* [[Arthur Lucan]] - Mrs Riley
* [[Kitty McShane]] - Kitty Riley
* [[Jerry Verno]] - Joe
* [[Magda Kun]] - Madame Zero
* [[C. Denier Warren]] - Commissioner
* Stanley Vilven - Hotel Manager
* Douglas Stewart - Randall, Chairman of Shipping Company
* George Wolkowsky - Apache
* Richard Riviere - French Officer

==Critical reception==
''[[TV Guide]]'' called it, "one of the most far fetched and yet most entertaining of the OLD MOTHER RILEY series...Daring deeds and Lucan's sharp characterization make for an irresistible romp."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://movies.tvguide.com/old-mother-riley-in-paris/108056 |title=Old Mother Riley In Paris Trailer, Reviews and Schedule for Old Mother Riley In Paris | TVGuide.com |publisher=Movies.tvguide.com |access-date=2014-03-01}}</ref> Britmovie called it, "probably (the) most amusing of the long-running Mother Riley series...This irresistible espionage romp in pre-war France has plenty of tired cooking and mother-in-law jokes but there are entertaining moments of energetic slapstick humour."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britmovie.co.uk/films/Old-Mother-Riley-in-Paris_1938/ |title=Old Mother Riley in Paris 1938 | Britmovie | Home of British Films |publisher=Britmovie |access-date=2014-03-01}}</ref> DVD Times bemoaned that the film has "too much reliance on Kitty and no great set pieces (instead we get a series on individual gags which never build to anything)."<ref>{{cite web|last=Nield |first=Anthony |url=http://film.thedigitalfix.com/content.php?contentid=59809 |title=Old Mother Riley in Paris / Old Mother Riley M.P. | DVD Video Review | Film @ The Digital Fix |publisher=Film.thedigitalfix.com |date=2006-01-01 |access-date=2014-03-01}}</ref> [[Sky movies]] comments that it is "probably the funniest of all the Mother Riley comedies, this set up the long-running series, after a rather moderate opener, '[[Old Mother Riley (film)|Old Mother Riley]]', had appeared the previous year...Made in the days when Lucan's real-life wife [[Kitty McShane]] still looked young enough to play his daughter."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://skymovies.sky.com/old-mother-riley-in-paris/review |title=Old Mother Riley in Paris - Sky Movies HD |publisher=Skymovies.sky.com |date=2002-05-23 |access-date=2014-03-01}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
{{IMDb title|0030519}}

{{Oswald Mitchell}}

[[Category:1938 films]]
[[Category:1938 comedy films]]
[[Category:British comedy films]]
[[Category:British black-and-white films]]
[[Category:Films scored by Percival Mackey]]
[[Category:Films directed by Oswald Mitchell]]
[[Category:1930s English-language films]]
[[Category:1930s British films]]

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