Movie Reviewed: Mexican Spitfire series, starring Lupe Velez

Movie Reviewed: Mexican Spitfire series, starring Lupe Velez

Lupe Velez is outrageously funny in this Mexican Spitfire movie series

Lupe Velez, the girl from Mexico plays Carmelita Fuentes and later as Carmelita Lindsay. Producer Robert Sisk Brought Lupe Velez back to the movies after 18 months of absence. She is cast as a fiery Latin entertainer who turns Manhattan topsy-turvy with her madcap activities; at best she is the Latin version of Lucille Ball. Donald Wood as bewildered ad-man becomes weak to the romantic onslaught of the Mexican Spitfire, and strongly supported by Leon Errol as uncle Lindsay/Lord Epping. Girl from Mexico became the pilot of the RKO's Mexican Spitfire series.

The Mexican Spitfire film is about Linda Hays as the former fiancée of Donald Wood and Elisabeth Risdon as her aunt to break up the marriage of Woods with Carmelita. Leon Errol plays the dual role of uncle of Donald Wood attempts to straighten the martial problems of the newlyweds and also as Lord Epping, the whiskey baron who is the client of Donald Wood acts in antagonistic fashion towards Linda Hays and his wife Elisabeth Risdon. RKO made a loss of $4,000 at a cost of $102,000 in 1939 in making this film, but it was hit in other ways and the studio went on to make several Spitfire movies that included; Mexican Spitfire out West, Mexican Spitfire's baby, Mexican Spitfire at sea, Mexican Spitfire sees a ghost, Mexican Spitfire's elephant, and Mexican Spitfire's blessed event.

This DVD set is an absolutely a great purchase and I am sure you will like Lupe Velez and her madcap acts. If you like Lucille Ball, you will like Lupe Velez.