Sighted: Ah There You Are!

[Gerald Lovell]

"A New Adventure of Old Mother Riley entitled" Old Mother Riley Overseas (1943) again has no role attributions and the available lists are incomplete and partly incorrect. With some guesses, I'd say the credited cast includes:


It's the sneaky Señor Santos who is played by Fred Kitchen Jnr.


The femme fatale is not Kitty but Magda Kun as Marquita


Kitty's mug, er, love interest, is Ferdy Mayne (credited as "Ferdi Mayer") who plays Pedro Quintos, here with the object of his desire and his father played by Anthony Holles


And Stanelli playing Stanellios, the orchestra conductor who rivals OMR in shouting and arm waving.

[Gerald Lovell]

I surmise that the performer credited only as 'Freddie' is Hakim the excitable shop owner. IMdb conflates Freddie's name as "Freddie William Breach" with that of William Breach . . .


. . . who adopted the stage name of Willer Neal and was the real life love interest of Mrs. Kitty Lucan. Here he plays Captain Cerullo


Another guess that this is Bob Lloyd as OMR's pub rival Mr. Duckett. I don't know who plays the charming Mrs. D


The American sailor who is understandbly bemused by OMR's explanation about her family tree seems to be Paul Erickson, later a writer who I met in 1980s.

[Gerald Lovell]

The pair jumping for joy at being in an Old Mother Riley film I guess are Rosarito and Paula.

Onto the uncredited folk and at OMR's Slip Inn:


Poor Jack May suddenly realises he shouldn't have let his dog drink all that illicit beer


And crafty Ben Williams on the right plans to endanger the old lady's licence. How she got one in the first place remains a mystery. Ben's chum looks here a bit like John Singer, but I don't think it is.

[Gerald Lovell]

Off to Portugal again and at The Vineyard Club:


The gentleman on the right kindly manages to obscure Kitty's face with his cigar smoke, but luckily not that of Pat Ryan in the background. Ferdy Mayne listens to dad Anthony Holles


And waiter Louis Matto berates his colleague for bumping into him and smashing his dishes when of course it's all OMR's fault.

[Gerald Lovell]

The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954) has been comprehensively if not grammar school covered before, but no longer playing truant from it:


At the railway station where, of course, the girls run riot to the consternation of Lorna Henderson, Roger Delgado and Arthur Sandifer, Sonnie Willis can be seen having a gander on the left


And on parents' day, Cecil Paul is in the car delivering a line as Johnnie Schofield as Spider looks on from the background.

[Gerald Lovell]

In the title sequence of INTERPOL CALLING (1959-60), we find:


Roy Everson seeing if he can tune into Radio Luxembourg.

The voice-over during the sequence is spoken by Tim Turner.

[Gerald Lovell]

A Spanish busdriver in The Spanish Gardener (1956):


Is Paul Beradi with Jon Whiteley as his half fare sole passenger.

[Wood-TIMBER-Wood]

Old Mother Riley - Overseas

I am wondering if the person at the back far right of the attaches is not Fred Wood. If it is it would be his earliest sighting (at the age of 21)

[Gerald Lovell]

Sorry, no, that's Pat Ryan.

[kelp]

Gerald, I have lightened your photograph, hope that is OK? It looks a bit smaller than your original, but I am unsure how to make it larger? Thank you. kelp.

[Gerald Lovell]

Thanks, kelp.

[Gerald Lovell]

Is it "An Inside Job" when a supermarket is robbed in SOFTLY SOFTLY TASK FORCE? Let's pray not:


And at Bushford Parish Church, Kathleen Heath may do just that


David J. Grahame is content to shake hands with the vicar


Police detective Reg Turner arrives to investigate


But Detective Inspector Harry Hawkins (Norman Bowler) relies upon having a quiet word with the barman at The Bricklayers' Arms played by David Melbourne.

[Gerald Lovell]

Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1957) has been experienced before, not least by Movie Dude, however there are yet more assassins to be spotted and so ignoring those sighted previously:


At a rave in the sixth form dorm, Tony Spears walks into shot as Rosalind Knight has some fun with Tony Castleton


Lloyd Lamble gathers his troops for a raid of the school, including Philip Johns far right


In the centre here, Lee Fenton looks quizzically at Bill Shine.

[Gerald Lovell]

The school cheats itself into a European trip and in a French café:


As Joyce Grenfell gets chat up by Terry-Thomas, Paul Phillips delivers the goods. It looks a bit like Pauline C on the left, but read on . . .


Terry is so engrossed in Joyce (or rather, her expectations of an inheritance), he doesn't see Johnny Rossi rising to the occasion in the background.

[Gerald Lovell]

The climatic water polo match/massacre scores a number of sightings:


If we look at the far end of the trumpet, I'm sure it's Norman Fisher having a seat


Among the dignitaries, I spot additionally Pat Hagan and Arthur Howell


And it that wasn't Pauline Chamberlain before, here she is now in her fetching hat/lampshade


Aileen Lewis makes her appearance beside a returning Philip Johns and, ignoring Dame Lionel Jeffries, Terry Sartain is in the right background. He can earlier be seen wearing the same gear as a diner in a Florence restaurant. He may also be in Lionel's Ancient Rome dream sequence, but it's difficult to make him out for sartain, er, certain.

[024Crosby]

Gerald, third photo. Could the guy right center be a young Fred Peck?

[Gerald Lovell]

Sorry, not seeing Fred there.

[Gerald Lovell]

As the match starts, despite the distractions, I can see George Hilsdon and Ian Selby on the far side of the pool


On this side of the pool, the attendant with the armband could be Gordon Humphries, while the bloke in white tie and tails might be Martin Lyder, but if so, he only appears in the wide shots


At the dramatic clinch, Arthur Dibbs comes up for air above Guido Lorraine and Bob E. Raymond, who plays another attendant.