Mexican Spitfire's Baby (1941)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Leslie Goodwins

Writers:

Jerome Cady (writer)
Charles E. Roberts (writer)

Release Date:

28 November 1941 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

It is the Lindsay's wedding anniversary and they are fighting. To help them settle down with a house and children...

Plot Keywords:

War Orphan | Disguise | Deception | Knife Throwing | Sequel

Cast

Lupe Velez	...	Carmelita Lindsay
Leon Errol	...	Uncle Matt Lindsay / Lord Basil Epping
Charles 'Buddy' Rogers	...	Dennis Lindsay
Zasu Pitts	...	Miss Emily Pepper
Elisabeth Risdon	...	Aunt Della
Fritz Feld	...	Lt. Pierre Gaston de la Blanc
Marion Martin	...	Fifi
Lloyd Corrigan	...	Chumley
Lydia Bilbrook	...	Lady Ada Epping
Vinton Hayworth	...	Hotel Clerk (as Jack Arnold)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jack Grey	...	Reporter
Jane Patten	...	Dennis's Stenographer
Jane Woodworth	...	Cashier

Runtime:

69 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

USA:Approved (PCA #7417)

Company:

RKO Radio Pictures

Trivia:

The Fuller Brush Company was noted for door-to-door sales of brushes of various sorts, with many Fuller Brush salesmen door-knocking houses all over the USA. There were two movies made - The Fuller Brush Man (1948) and The Fuller Brush Girl (1950).

Goofs:

Plot holes: Lord Epping brings over a 'war orphan' from World War 1. Given that the film was made in 1941 and the war ended in 1918, Fifi would be around 22 years old, hardly an age for someone to be adopted as an orphan.

Movie Connections:

Follows Mexican Spitfire (1940)

Shticks

These Mexican Spitfire movies are usually little more than a collection of bits from comedy short subjects, and RKO was one of the two best studios for short subjects in this period -- Columbia was the other with the Stooges and Andy Clyde. Lupe Velez does her broken English doubletalk, Leon Errol does a bit of his crazy legs routine and alternates between his usual voice and his Lord Epping bit and the usual silliness ensues.

In this case the effort is strengthened by the addition of several wonderful comedy performers. Fritz Feld is there, clicking his heels and popping; Tom Kennedy has a small bit as the sheriff and Zasu Pitts shows up, although her role is far too small and doesn't use her as well as it might.

Plot? Plot? Of course there's a bit of plot as the Lindsays try to get Lord Epping's business by having him get them a war orphan and he shows up with girl -- a war orphan from World War One. Does it really matter?