Overview

Like 1940's Melody Ranch, the 1941 Gene Autry vehicle Down Mexico Way was designed as a "special", to be promoted separately from Autry's regular B-western series as an A-picture attraction. The story gets under way when a pair of con artists, Gibson (Sidney Blackmer) and Allen (Joe Sawyer), breeze into the town of Sage City claiming to be movie producers. The two scoundrels promise to film a movie in the little burg on the condition that the townsfolk pony up the necessary production fees.

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Cast

Gene Autry

Gene Autry

Smiley Burnette

Frog

Fay McKenzie

Maria Elena Alvarado

Harold Huber

Pancho Grande

Sidney Blackmer

Ellery Gibson

Joe Sawyer

Allen

Andrew Tombes

Mayor Tubbs

Murray Alper

Flood

Arthur Loft

Homer Gerard

Duncan Renaldo

Juan

Paul Fix

Henchman Davis