Machine Gun Mama is a 1944 American musical comedy film directed by Harold Young.

It was PRC's attempt to feature a comedy team to compete with Universal's Abbott and Costello and Paramount's Road to ... movies, as well as their entry in the Good Neighbor Policy film genre of the time where the United States presented both a positive image to Latin and South America as well as stimulating American tourism to the region.

Harold Young had also directed the live action portions of Walt Disney's The Three Caballeros.

The title comes from a furious Nita turning a compressed air pellet firing machine gun carnival attraction on the Americans.

Adopting the elephant as their own, the two stumble into a traveling carnival headed by Alberto Cordoba and his daughter Nita.