Old Mother Riley Detective

A night watchman is being bludgeoned as a safe is cracked open in the offices of the District Food Controller A list of wartime foods to be rationed is stolen and the police fear gangsters are planning to sell the foods on the black market As the office charwoman Old Mother Rileys fingerprints are all over the safe and she becomes the polices number one suspect To prove her innocence Mother Riley turns detective adopting various methods and disguises to track down the villains