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Mother Riley Meets the Vampire (1952) Full HD Movie
Starring: Arthur Lucan, Bela Lugosi, Dora Bryan
Director: John Gilling
Studio: Fernwood Productions
š OLD MOTHER RILEY TAKES A BITE OUT OF BELA LUGOSI! š
Mother Riley Meets the Vampire (1952) is a delightfully bizarre British horror-comedy from Fernwood Productions, starring Arthur Lucan, Bela Lugosi, and Dora Bryan. Directed by John Gilling, this offbeat cult curiosity mixes slapstick comedy, mad-scientist mayhem, and Gothic horror in a wonderfully eccentric slice of postwar British cinema.
HOW THIS FOR GENIUS: The mysterious figure known as ‘The Vampire’ comes to England to complete experiments in his mad bid to control the world. When the radar-controlled Robot he ordered is mistakenly delivered to Mother Riley, the Vampire uses radar control to have the Robot transport itself and Mother Riley to the proper destination. The old lady goes into a whirl of side-splitting action as she tries to frustrate the sinister vampire’s plans!
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A Tasty Tidbit from Mystery Girl: Bela Lugosi, stranded in England after a failed Dracula stage tour, took the role for $5,000 to fund his return to America. This was the final film in the long-running Old Mother Riley series and the only one made after Arthur Lucan separated from his wife and stage partner, Kitty McShane.
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This was Arthur Lucan’s final film before he passed in 1954. Arthur Lucan was an English actor (born 1885) who performed as Old Mother Riley on stage, screen, and radio, including a series of comedy films from the 1930s into the 1950s. It’s nice to see that he was able to work with Bela Lugosi in this production.
I bought this on dvd 2 weeks ago from a stall in my local indoor market!
This rivals plan9 from outer space for bad writing direction and production
Poor Bela š¦he tried so hard not to be a flop this one really takes the biscuit for horrible cinema no moviesā¦ no grade C movies and I didnāt know Ronny Barker was in movies!
The cat said…”Scat!”
Looks so much better! Thanks!
Wonderful, hammy writing & overacting! š š š
“This is an awful, a really awful, a ferociously awful movie, and if you want to spend a deliriously joyful hour, don’t miss it. No low comedy is beneath Mrs. Riley… her whole act was built around effects that were so dreadfully unfunny that they came out hilarious. There’s a lot more of Lugosi, a lot more of Mrs. Riley, a lot more of the most feeble, least sensible movie around. You’ll love it” (Sol Abraham of the Baltimore Sun, Jan. 16, 1964, p. 14)