Old Mother Riley, M.P. (1940)
Directed by Oswald Mitchell
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Synopsis by Sandra Brennan
In this entry in the long-running British comedy series, boisterous Irish washerwoman Mother Riley loses her laundry job and ends up running for Parliament against the man who fired her. Not only does she win, she also forces a foreign government to pay its massive debt to Britain.
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innocence, Britain, debt, employment, foreign, government, justice, landlord, manager, mother, Parliament, politician, running, winner