Vampire Over London (1952)
Also known as Mother Riley Meets the Vampire
1952 · Feature film · 73 min · dir. John Gilling
It's enough to make a bat laugh!
- Comedy
- Horror
Synopsis
The legendary Bela Lugosi as "the Vampire" teams up with Britain's much-loved "Mother Riley" in this hilarious comedy adventure. The Vampire plans to control the world with the help of his robot, which accidentally gets shipped to Mother Riley. 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.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- John Gilling
- Writer
- Val Valentine
- Cinematography
- Stanley Pavey
- Studio
- Fernwood Productions Inc.
- Released
- 1952-07-11
- Series
- Old Mother Riley Collection
- Running time
- 73 minutes
Cast & crew
John Gilling Director
Bela Lugosi
Arthur Lucan
Dora Bryan- Philip Leaver
Richard Wattis
Hattie Jacques
Graham Moffatt
David Hurst
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · More Mother Riley Please · slurryer · 2012-10-21
I Loved This. It was not great, but it was very enjoyable to sit through. Smiled throughout. Yes it was goofy. Yes the plot was awful. Yes the effects were hideous. But with Mother Riley, all that seems to fit, and fit very well. Difficult to explain, but a must see. You will either love it, or hate it, and you will know within the first 15 minutes which. The opening number Finger in the air... Awesomely original and out of place all at the same time, which made me all the more curious to see it to the end. Glad I did. Looking for more Mother Riley.
★★★ · Lugosi vs. Lucan · picfixer · 2014-02-19
Off-the-wall British comedy with a plastering of slapstick. Stars English music hall comic Arthur Lucan in drag as a shop keeper/scullery maid and Bela Lugosi as a vampire/mad scientist. Plus there is a robot that doubles as an AM radio. Following me so far? Lugosi is fine and looks ten years younger than he did just one year later when he "narrated" Ed Wood's "Glen or Glenda." Arthur Lucan can be experienced but not described. At first you're not sure if he's a woman -- then you thank God he's not. When he turns on the slapstick, which there isn't enough of, he's very funny -- other times…
