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''Mexican Spitfire'' refers to a series of seven comedy films released by the RKO Pictures between 1940 and 1943 starring Lupe Vélez and Leon Errol. The movies were a comedy featuring the character of ''Carmelita Lindsay'' (Lupe Vélez), a sympathetic and temperamental Mexican singer who leaves her career and her native country to meet Dennis Lindsay, an elegant and handsome American gentleman. The series is a sequel of the 1939 film''The Girl from Mexico'' which first introduced Carmelita and the other characters of the series. The argument is based mainly on the culture shock facing Carmelita in her new married life, especially when she knows the family and friends of her husband. She finds in the Uncle Matthew 'Matt' Lindsay (Leon Errol) an perfect accomplice and companion of adventures, as they both get into trouble and situations usually caused by the volatile temperament of Carmelita . The plot often took a back seat to gags, many of them supposedly ad-libbed by Vélez and Errol during filming. ==Films in the series== *''Mexican Spitfire (1940) *''Mexican Spitfire Out West'' (1940) *''The Mexican Spitfire's Baby'' (1941) *''Mexican Spitfire at Sea'' (1942) *''Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost'' (1942) *''Mexican Spitfire's Elephant'' (1942) *''Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event'' (1943) Each film is not simply a comedic film, but a satire of the cultural shock and stereotypes of the Mexican people (and Latin American people in general) in the American society at the time. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mexican Spitfire (film series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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