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{{Infobox film
| name = Raising a Riot
| image = "Raising_a_Riot"_(1955).jpg
| caption =
| director = [[Wendy Toye]]
| producer = Ian Dalrymple Hugh Perceval
| writer = [[Ian Dalrymple]] [[Hugh Perceval]]
| based_on = ''Raising a Riot'' by Alfred Toombs
| starring = [[Kenneth More]] [[Shelagh Fraser]] [[Mandy Miller]]
| cinematography = [[Christopher Challis]]
| editing = Bert Rule
| music = [[Edmund Crispin|Bruce Montgomery]]
| studio = [[London Films]] Wessex Films
| distributor = [[British Lion Films]]
| released = 21 February 1955
| runtime = 90 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| gross = £231,148 (UK)<ref>Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', ''Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television'', Vol 20 No 4, 2000 p506</ref>}}
'''''Raising a Riot''''' is a 1955 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Wendy Toye]] and starring [[Kenneth More]], [[Shelagh Fraser]] and [[Mandy Miller]] about a naval officer who attempts to look after his three children in his wife's absence.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/47726|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113212015/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/47726|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-01-13|title=Raising a Riot (1955)|work=BFI}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51774030 |title=Family comedy. |newspaper=[[The Australian Women's Weekly]] | date=21 March 1956 |accessdate=6 May 2012 |page=47 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> It was shot at [[Shepperton Studios]] near [[London]] with sets designed by the [[art director]] [[Joseph Bato]].

==Plot summary==
Commander Peter Kent of the Royal Navy and his wife May have three children, ranging from five to eleven years: Peter, Anne and Fusty. Kent comes home after three years abroad with no idea how to handle the children. When Mary has to fly to Canada, Peter takes his children to his father's new country home, which turns out to be a windmill. They end up clashing with an American family in the neighbourhood.

==Cast==
* [[Kenneth More]] as Peter Kent
* [[Shelagh Fraser]] as Mary Kent
* [[Mandy Miller]] as Anne Kent
* Gary Billings as Peter Kent
* Fusty Bentine as Fusty Kent
* [[Ronald Squire]] as Grampy
* [[Olga Lindo]] as Aunt Maud
* [[Lionel Murton]] as Hary
* Mary Laura Wood as Jacqueline
* Jan Miller as Sue
* [[Nora Nicholson]] as Miss Pettigrew
* [[Anita Sharp-Bolster]] as Mrs Buttons
* [[Michael Bentine]] as The Professor
* Dorothy Dewhurst as Mother
* Robin Brown as Junior

==Production==
The film was based on a book by American writer Alfred Toombs. The book was based on Toombs' real life experience of having to look after his children after having been away from them at war for three years.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39351220 |title=The amusing story of a young father who takes on family housekeeping "RAISING A RIOT". |newspaper=[[Western Mail (Western Australia)|Western Mail]] |location=Perth |date=28 May 1952 |accessdate=18 July 2012 |page=13 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

One of the children is an uncredited Caroline John, who would later play Liz Shaw in Doctor Who.

==Reception==
===Box office===
The film was the eighth most popular movie at the British box office in 1955.<ref>{{cite news|title=Dirk Bogarde favourite film actor|work=The Irish Times|location=Dublin, Ireland|date=Dec 29, 1955|page=9}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/Screen_Volume_32_Issue_3/page/n17|magazine=Screen|page=259|volume=32|issue=3|title=The popular cash and culture in the postwar British cinema industry|first=Janet|last=Thumim}}</ref>

According to the [[National Film Finance Corporation]], the film made a comfortable profit.<ref>{{cite news|title=U.S. MONEY BEHIND 30% OF BRITISH FILMS: Problems for the Board of Trade|work=The Manchester Guardian|date=May 4, 1956|page=7}}</ref>

===Critical===
''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote, "Withal, it makes agreeable entertainment. Mr. More is a comical chap, particularly when he has a dog to cope with, as he had in the memorable ''[[Genevieve (film)|Genevieve]]''...''Raising a Riot'' is an amiable little film";<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9901E7DB1631E63ABC4053DFB366838C649EDE|title = Movie Reviews|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 5 November 2021}}</ref> while more recently, the ''[[Radio Times]]'' called it "an inconsequential, one-joke comedy, kept moving by the polished More, but old-fashioned and rather flat";<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/film/h8dk4/raising-a-riot|title=Raising a Riot|author=Robin Karney|work=RadioTimes}}</ref> and [[AllMovie]] described how the film "goes off on several directions, many of them hilarious: some of the best scenes involve the kids' ongoing feud with a bunch of American children."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/raising-a-riot-v107213|title=Raising a Riot (1955) – Wendy Toye – Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related |author=Hal Erickson|work=AllMovie}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0048539}}

[[Category:1955 films]]
[[Category:1955 comedy films]]
[[Category:British comedy films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Wendy Toye]]
[[Category:Films produced by Ian Dalrymple]]
[[Category:Films with screenplays by Ian Dalrymple]]
[[Category:London Films films]]
[[Category:British Lion Films films]]
[[Category:Films shot at Shepperton Studios]]
[[Category:1950s English-language films]]
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