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


[[Category:1951 films]]
[[Category:1951 films]]

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

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]

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. 2002-05-23. Retrieved 2014-02-22.
  2. ^ "A Gender Variance Who's Who: Old Mother Riley". Zagria.blogspot.co.uk. 2008-09-10. Retrieved 2014-02-22.
  3. ^ a b "Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure Review". Movies.tvguide.com. Retrieved 2014-02-22.
  4. ^ "Buy Movies at Movies Unlimited - The Movie Collector's Site". Moviesunlimited.com. Retrieved 2014-02-22.
  5. ^ Beifuss, John (2010-06-15). "An (Un)Real Mother For Ya: Old Mother Riley on DVD - The Bloodshot Eye". Blogs.commercialappeal.com. Retrieved 2014-02-22.
  6. ^ "Screen Snapshots: Law of the Jungle (1942) - Monogram and the Importance of Mantan Moreland". Screensnapshots.blogspot.co.uk. 2010-05-20. Retrieved 2014-02-22.
  7. ^ "Old Mother Riley: In Paris & MP DVD | Classic Movies | Films by Movie Mail UK". Moviemail.com. 2006-01-30. Retrieved 2014-02-22.

External links

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