# Machine Gun Mama

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{{short description|1944 film by Harold Young}}
{{more footnotes needed|date=October 2021}}
{{Infobox film
| name           = Machine Gun Mama
| image          = Mgmumpos.jpg
| caption        = Original [film poster](/source/film_poster)
| director       = [Harold Young](/source/Harold_Young_(director))
| producer       = [Harry D. Edwards](/source/Harry_D._Edwards) (associate producer)<br />[Jack Schwarz (producer)](/source/Jack_Schwarz_(producer))
| writer         = [Sam Neuman](/source/Sam_Neuman)
| narrator       =
| starring       = See below
| music          =
| cinematography = [Gus Peterson](/source/Gus_Peterson_(cinematographer))
| editing        = [Robert O. Crandall](/source/Robert_O._Crandall)
| distributor    = [Producers Releasing Corporation](/source/Producers_Releasing_Corporation)
| released       = {{Film date|1944|08|18}}
| runtime        = 61 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English<br />Spanish
| budget         =
| gross          =
}}

'''''Machine Gun Mama''''' is a 1944 American musical comedy film directed by [Harold Young](/source/Harold_Young_(director)).  It was [PRC](/source/Producers_Releasing_Corporation)'s attempt to feature a [comedy team](/source/comedy_team) to compete with Universal's [Abbott and Costello](/source/Abbott_and_Costello) and Paramount's ''[Road to ...](/source/Road_to_...)'' movies, as well as their entry in the [Good Neighbor Policy](/source/Good_Neighbor_Policy) [film genre](/source/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](/source/Walt_Disney)'s ''[The Three Caballeros](/source/The_Three_Caballeros)''.

The film had the [working title](/source/working_title)s ''Mexican Fiesta'' and ''Moonlight Fiesta''<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121104170535/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/82241/Machine-Gun-Mama/#notes Machine Gun Mama]</ref> but is also known as '''''Tropical Fury''''' as an American TV title of the film. 
The title comes from a furious Nita turning a compressed air pellet firing machine gun carnival attraction on the Americans.

== Plot ==
Two truck drivers from Brooklyn travel to Mexico to deliver an elephant named "Bunny", but they have lost the address where Bunny is to be delivered. Adopting the elephant as their own, the two stumble into a [traveling carnival](/source/traveling_carnival) headed by Alberto Cordoba and his daughter Nita. The carnival is destitute and menaced by [loan sharks](/source/loan_sharks).  The two Americans sell Bunny to the carnival to replace their recently departed [flea circus](/source/flea_circus) but agree not to accept their payment until the carnival regains its fortune thanks to Bunny and Brooklyn "[ballyhoo](/source/Media_circus)". The loan sharks attempt a variety of dirty tricks against the [gringo](/source/gringo)s.

== Cast ==
*[Armida](/source/Armida_(actress)) as Nita Cordoba
*[El Brendel](/source/El_Brendel) as Ollie Swenson
*[Wallace Ford](/source/Wallace_Ford) as John O'Reilly
*[Jack La Rue](/source/Jack_La_Rue) as Jose
*[Luis Alberni](/source/Luis_Alberni) as Ignacio
*[Ariel Heath](/source/Ariel_Heath) as The Blonde
*[Julian Rivero](/source/Julian_Rivero) as Alberto Cordoba
*[Eumenio Blanco](/source/Eumenio_Blanco) as First Detective
*[Anthony Warde](/source/Anthony_Warde) as Carlos

== Soundtrack ==
* "Mi Amor" (written by [Sam Neuman](/source/Sam_Neuman) and [Michael Breen](/source/Michael_Breen_(songwriter)))
* "Moonlight Fiesta" (written by Sam Neuman and Michael Breen)

== Notes ==
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== External links ==
*{{IMDb title|id=0037033}}
*{{Internet Archive film|id=machine_gun_mama_1944}}

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{{Harold Young}}

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Category:American black-and-white films
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Category:1944 romantic comedy films
Category:Films set in Mexico
Category:American adventure comedy films
Category:Producers Releasing Corporation films
Category:Films directed by Harold Young (director)
Category:1940s romantic musical films
Category:American romantic musical films
Category:American musical comedy films
Category:1944 English-language films
Category:1944 American films
Category:English-language musical comedy films
Category:English-language romantic comedy films
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