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Down Mexico Way

"TOPS EVERY OTHER AUTRY HIT - Gene in his most likeable role...more songs...more thrills...more beautiful senoritas...a glamorous screen production that gives the most in entertainment and fun!"

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.

Top Cast

  • Gene Autry

    Gene Autry

    Gene Autry

  • Smiley Burnette

    Smiley Burnette

    Frog

  • Fay McKenzie

    Fay McKenzie

    Maria Elena Alvarado

  • Harold Huber

    Harold Huber

    Pancho Grande

  • Sidney Blackmer

    Sidney Blackmer

    Ellery Gibson

  • Joe Sawyer

    Joe Sawyer

    Allen

  • Andrew Tombes

    Andrew Tombes

    Mayor Tubbs

  • Murray Alper

    Murray Alper

    Flood

  • Arthur Loft

    Arthur Loft

    Homer Gerard

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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