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Machine Gun Mama (1944)

1944 · Feature film · 60 min · dir. Harold Young

  • Comedy
  • Romance

Synopsis

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.

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Details

Director
Harold Young
Writer
Sam Neuman
Released
1944-08-18
Running time
60 minutes

Cast & crew

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★★★ · Talented elephant · jimelena · 2006-05-26

Five stars just for the elephant. The actors are some of my favorites but maybe these parts are not so good for them. I like that Russian guy no matter what he does but his role here is weak. He does it well though.

★★★★ · Humorous, endearing, and NON-VIOLENT. · kareneliot · 2005-10-23

I enjoyed this unlikely story of two guys from New York and their elephant ending up where they do. It has a little romance, a little mystery and a little humor. I liked how the leading lady handled the gun. It was actually quite a humorous, romantic and NON-violent movie.

★★★ · First TV Showing under the original title · Braveologist65 · 2024-07-02

This film was first re-titled "Tropical Fury" for TV. National Telefilms Associates restored the original title opening in the spiring of 1970. This restored print debuted on WFAN-TV 14 in Washington D.C. on Thursday June 5, 1970 at 3:30pm.

★★ · Who is Machine Gun Mama? · Karaoke Joe · 2005-11-08

A couple of of New Yorkers wind up in Mexico with an elephant and¡¦ hold on.. Let¡¯s back up here. Why did they wind up in Mexico? And why on earth do they have an elephant? These questions are established at the very beginning of this mess of a movie, which details the two winding up in a Mexican carnival trying to sell of the animal to the fair owners, but the fair owners are wondering if they can afford the elephant. Soon, one of the two is falling in love with the daughter of the fair owner, but he might have some skeletons in the closet that she doesn¡¯t know about. Fairly…

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