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Director
  
Maclean Rogers

Writer
  
Val Valentine

Music director
  
Wilfred Burns

Country
  
UK

4.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy

Film series
  
Old Mother Riley Series

Duration
  

Language
  
English

Release date
  
1951

Cast
  
Arthur Lucan
(Old Mother Riley),
Kitty McShane
(Kitty Riley),
Roddy Hughes
(Mr Orders),
Peter Butterworth
(Steve),
Garry Marsh
(Jim)

Similar movies
  
Old Mother Rileys Jungle Treasure and Old Mother Riley Meets the Vampire are part of the same movie series

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.

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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.

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.

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")

Cast

  • Old Mother Riley ...Arthur Lucan
  • Kitty ... Kitty McShane
  • Jim ... Garry Marsh
  • Captain Daincourt ... Cyril Chamberlain
  • Chief 'Stinker' Carstairs ... Robert Adams
  • James Orders ... Roddy Hughes
  • Harry Benson ... Willer Neal
  • Estelle ... Anita D'ray
  • Morgan the Pirate ... Sebastian Cabot
  • Flying Officer Prang ... Bill Shine
  • 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."
  • 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."

    • References

    Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure Wikipedia
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    Old Mother Rileys Jungle Treasure IMDb