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Year
1939
Runtime
71 min.
Director
Leslie Goodwins
Genres
Romance, Comedy, Music
Rating *
6.5
Votes *
120
Checks
23
Favs
1
Dislikes
0
Favs/checks
4.3% (1:23)
Favs/dislikes
1:0
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    Siskoid

    The Girl from Mexico spawned 7 more films in the "Mexican Spitfire" series, starring Lupe Vélez, but the comedy is far less raucous than in later chapters (from what I've seen). This first chapter is a pretty standard romantic comedy with a couple of musical numbers, and Vélez giving the kind of slapstick performance one might later expect from Lucille Ball, with an extra dollop of national stereotype. The year is 1939, so we can perhaps accept that her character comes from a less technologically-inclined village in Mexico, but some of the trouble she gets up to makes her seem more than a little dumb. If we're supposed to laugh at the fiery (i.e. easily angered), dippy latina who doesn't know her English idioms, well, that doesn't play great today. And it's perhaps at odds with this actually being a vehicle for a Mexican actress AND showing progressive thinking in having the white bread lead marry her instead of the catty white socialite he was rather apathetically engaged to. I guess it's kind of cute without being too funny. 5 years 7 months ago
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