Machine Gun Mama (1944)
Two Americans stranded in Mexico with an elephant try to sell their animal to a traveling carnival. Low-budget comedy with songs and a misleading title.
- Date of release
- 1944-08-18
- TMDB
- 4.5 / 10 (6)
- Runtime
- 1h 1m
- Genres
- Comedy, Romance
- Director
- Harold Young
Casting
- Armida — Nita Cordoba
- Wallace Ford — John O'Reilly
- El Brendel — Ollie Swenson
- Jack La Rue — Jose
- Luis Alberni — Ignacio
- Julian Rivero — Alberto Cordoba
- Ariel Heath — The Blonde
Interesting facts
Machine Gun Mama is a 1944 American musical comedy film directed by Harold Young. It was PRC's attempt to feature a comedy team to compete with Universal's Abbott and Costello and Paramount's Road to ... movies, as well as their entry in the Good Neighbor Policy film genre of the time where the United States presented both a positive image to Latin and South America as well as stimulating American tourism to the region. Harold Young had also directed the live action portions of Walt Disney's The Three Caballeros.
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