The Girl from Mexico (1939)
- Directed by
- Leslie Goodwins
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 11m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 5.1 of 10 from 7 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A hot-headed Mexican singer goes to New York for a radio job. She then sets her sights on winning over the ad man who hired her.
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What happens
The Girl from Mexico is a 1939 American comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins and written by Lionel Houser and Joseph Fields. The film stars Lupe Vélez, who plays a hot-headed, fast-talking Mexican singer taken to New York for a radio gig, who decides she wants the ad agency man for herself. This low-budget film's unexpected box-office success resulted in a sequel, Mexican Spitfire, and eventually a film series of eight films all together. All eight were directed by Goodwins, used venerable comedian Leon Errol as a comic foil, and showcased Vélez's comic persona, indulging in broken-English malapropisms, troublemaking ideas, sudden fits of temper, occasional songs, and bursts of Spanish invective. The film was released June 2, 1939, by RKO Radio Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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