I've just watched this movie, and even as I try to recall enough of it to explain it to you, my brain recoils in horror. It involves Arthur Lucan in drag (he sings a song, during which the sound track changes, letting the audience know it is pre-recorded) and Bela Lugosi acting perfectly seriously as someone who believes he is a vampire.
How sad that Bela had to end up in rubbish like this. Not much to describe.
My soul-mate and I watched this movie in bed and found it outrageously funny. Arthur Lucan, as Old Mother Riley, is as funny as Tyler Perry is as Madea.
Not a 'good' film, but definitely worth seeing for any fan of Bela Lugosi, and not nearly as 'awful' as its general negative reputation suggests. This was the last chapter in a British series that featured an Irish wash woman type character named "Old Mother Riley" (and played by comedian Arthur Lucan in drag).
Finding some hidden gems when checking his credits over the last few Octobers,I decided it was time to watch a Bela Lugosi movie. Looking round online, I spotted a Lugosi title I've not heard of before,which led to me looking up to see a vampire over London.
MOTHER RILEY MEETS THE VAMPIRE is the last in a long-running series of films (going since the 1930s) featuring Arthur Lucan in the title role of Old Mother Riley, a bad-tempered Irish washerwoman who always seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. This one's the only one in the series of interest to horror fans, thanks to a starring role for an aged Bela Lugosi, playing a sinister vampire with nefarious plans for England.
Right from the beginning this movie had a feel of a cheaply made production that for some reason was able to get aging Bela Lugosi to co-star in order to give the film some worth. But overall, Lugosi turned out to be more of an embarrassment to the film while the main star, Arthur Lucan, tried his best to hold the movie together with his slap-stick antics that had been his custom for years.
My Son the Vampire AKA Vampire Over London (1952) or "Old Mother Riley Meets the Vampire" (original title).This is a cute comedy-horror film.
Old Mother Riley Meets the Vampire. Bela Lugosi plays a mad scientist with plans for world domination by creating an army of comical looking robots.