Machine Gun Mama is a 1944 American muscial comedy film directed by Harold Young. It was PRC

Producers Releasing Corporation

Producers Releasing Corporation was one of the more lower-end Hollywood film studios on Poverty Row from the late '30s to the mid-'40s. PRC, as it was commonly known, made low-budget B-movies for the lower-half of a double bill. A few of its films have gained a respectable reputation over the...

's attempt to feature a comedy team to compete with Universal's Abbott and Costello

Abbott and Costello

William "Bud" Abbott and Lou Costello performed together as Abbott and Costello, an American comedy duo whose work on stage, radio, film and television made them the most popular comedy team during the 1940s and 1950s...

 and Paramount's Road to … movies and their entry in the Good Neighbor Policy

Good Neighbor policy

The Good Neighbor policy was the foreign policy of the administration of United States President Franklin Roosevelt toward the countries of Latin America. Its main principle was that of non-intervention and non-interference in the domestic affairs of Latin America...

 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 poritons of Walt Disney

Walt Disney

Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist, well-known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. Along with his brother Roy O...

's The Three Caballeros

The Three Caballeros

The Three Caballeros is a 1944 American animated feature film, produced by Walt Disney and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. The film premiered in Mexico City on December 21, 1944. It was released in the United States on February 3, 1945...

.

The film had the working title

Working title

A working title, sometimes called a production title, is the temporary name of a product or project used during its development, usually used in filmmaking, television production, novel, video game, or music album.-Purpose:...

s Mexican Fiesta and Moonlight Fiesta but is also known as Tropical Fury as an American TV title of the film.

Plot summary

Two truck drivers from Brooklyn

Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...

 travel to Mexico to deliver an elephant named "Bunny", but they have lost the address of where Bunny is to be delivered to. Adopting the elephant as their own, the two stumble into a travelling carnival headed by Alberto Cordoba and his daughter Nita. The carnival is destitute and menaced by loan sharks. The two Americans sell Bunny to the carnival to replace their recently departed flea circus

Flea circus

A flea circus refers to a circus sideshow attraction in which fleas are attached to miniature carts and other items, and encouraged to perform circus acts within a small housing...

 but agree not to accept their payment until the carnival regains its fortune thanks to Bunny and Brooklyn "ballyhoo

Media circus

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". The loan sharks attempt a variety of dirty tricks against the gringo

Gringo

Gringo is a slang Spanish and Portuguese word used in Spanish-speaking and Portuguese-speaking countries in Latin America, to denote foreigners, often from the United States. The term can be applied to someone who is actually a foreigner, or it can denote a strong association or assimilation into...

s.

The title comes from a furious Nita turning a compressed air pellet firing machine gun carnival attraction on the Americans.

Cast

• Armida as Nita Cordoba
• El Brendel
  El Brendel
  El Brendel was a vaudeville comedian turned movie star, best remembered for his dialect schtick as a Swedish immigrant. His biggest role was as "Single-0" in the sci-fi musical Just Imagine , produced by Fox Film Corporation...
  
   as Ollie Swenson
• Wallace Ford
  Wallace Ford
  Wallace Ford was an English film and television actor who, with his friendly appearance and stocky build later in life, appeared in a number of film westerns and B-movies....
  
   as John O'Reilly
• Jack La Rue
  Jack La Rue
  Jack La Rue was an American film and stage actor.Born as Gaspere Biondolillo, he worked on the New York stage from 1923 to 1931. He moved to Hollywood, where he appeared in numerous films...
  
   as Jose
• Luis Alberni as Ignacio
• Ariel Heath as The Blonde
• Julian Rivero as Alberto Cordoba
• Eumenio Blanco as First Detective
• Anthony Warde
  Anthony Warde
  Anthony Warde was a noted American actor who appeared in over 150 films between 1937 and 1964.-Career:A native of Pennsylvania, Warde started his Hollywood career in Escape by Night , appearing in a handful of undistinguished feature films before gaining popularity as one of the hardest working...
  
   as Carlos

Soundtrack

• "Mi Amor" (Written by Sam Neuman
  Sam Neuman
  - Selected filmography :*Hitler *Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory *The Hoodlum *I Killed Geronimo *Federal Man *Timber Fury *Down Missouri Way *The Enchanted Forest...
  
   and Michael Breen
  Michael Breen
  Michael Breen may refer to:* Michael Breen wrote The Koreans* Mike Breen * Michael Breen from Montreal, Canada who was nominated at the Juno Awards of 1989* Mike Breen founder of ....
  
  )
• "Moonlight Fiesta" (Written by Sam Neuman and Michael Breen)