Mother Riley Meets The Vampire

AKA's:

Dracula's Desire / Mother Riley In Dracula's Desire / Mother Riley Runs Riot / My Son, The Vampire / Old Mother Riley Meets The Vampire / Riley Contre Le Vampire / Robot And The Vampire, The / Vampire And The Robot, The / Vampire Over London

Release date:	1952 UK
Running time:	74' (cover 74') - Source: DVD (RC 1/NTSC) b/w
Rating:	UK: U; US: NR
Main Crew:	Director: John Gilling (The Mummy's Shroud 1967; The Reptile 1966; The Plague Of                The Zombies 1966; The Pirates Of Blood River 1962) Producer: Fernwood Productions Score: Lindo Southworth Writer: Val Valentine Director of photography: Stanley Pavey
Cast:	Use the dropdown menu to see the full cast Arthur Lucan / Mother Riley Bela Lugosi / Von Housen Dora Bryan / Tillie Ian Wilson / Hitchcock, the Butler Philip Leaver / Anton Daschomb Richard Wattis / Police Constable Freddie Graham Moffatt / The Yokel Maria Mercedes / Julia Loretti Roderick Lovell / Douglas David Hurst / Mugsy Judith Furse / Freda Hattie Jacques / Mrs. Jenks Laurence Naismith / Policeman at Desk Dandy Nichols George Benson Bill Shine David Hannaford Charles Lloyd Pack Cyril Smith Peter Bathurst John Le Mesurier
Summary:	The mad scientist Von Housen (Bela Lugosi), known as "The Vampire", plans to control the world with the help of his robot, which accidentally gets shipped to Mother Riley (Arthur Lucan). Through radar control, he contacts the robot and orders it to come to him, bringing along Mother Riley! But his life is turned upside down when he holds this most meddling of mothers captive.
Note:	- The last film in the "Old Mother Riley" series (1937-1952), and also the last film for Arthur Lucan (who continued to make live stage appearances) was the only film in the series in which the main character is not called "Old Mother Riley" in the title. "Old Mother Riley" was a British comedy series starring Arthur Lucan (in drag, and who was known for the fact that he never appeared in public except in his "Old Mother Riley" garb), who played an old working class woman. - In 1951 Bela Lugosi went to England to revive his famous "Dracula" play in a touring stage production (that played 221 performances in 22 different cities around the United Kingdom), before he made his third and final British film. - There was an existing script for the film, but it didn't have a part for Lugosi in it (the "Old Mother Riley" films were family fare in Britain, and to have Lugosi actually play a real vampire would cause the film to have a harsher rating, thus losing its family appeal), so producer George Minter had a new script written. - American distributor Jack H. Harris picked it up and tried to market it as a "Carry On..." film calling it "Carry On Vampire", but was sued by the creators of the British "Carry On" films. A re-edited version with new Lugosi footage and all of the Old Mother Riley scenes cut out was planned for the American release (titled "King Robot"), but could not be accomplished because Lugosi, only a year later, no longer matched the existing footage. So the film was retitled "My Son The Vampire" for its US release, where it was given about two minutes of added footage ahead of the main title, featuring a new song by Allan Sherman.
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