A programmer codes his way into mambo madness — 1956's most unhinged musical rom-com!
Score
Pérez Prado's mambo brass could wake the dead.
Costume
Technicolor suits that scream 'my other car is a conga line'.
Direction
Fred F. Sears crams 12 musical numbers into 78 minutes.
Director
Fred F. Sears
Dámaso Pérez Prado
Perez Prado
Stephen Dunne
Bill Haven
Alix Talton
Debbie Farmer
Sylvia Lewis
Nita Munay
Dante DiPaolo
Elvarez
Jose Gonzales-Gonzales
Pedro Fernandez
Charles Evans
George Evans
Howard Wright
Harry Teasdale
Edgar Dearing
Investor Charlie
Franklyn Farnum
Board of Directors
Frank Fenton
Board of Directors Head
Michael Fox
Frank
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dámaso Pérez Prado was the actual 'King of Mambo' — this was his Hollywood moment before the craze died.
The film rode the 1954-1956 mambo craze that made Latin music briefly mainstream before rock killed it dead.
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