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.
Cast
- Gene Autry as Gene Autry
- Smiley Burnette as Frog
- Fay McKenzie as Maria Elena Alvarado
- Harold Huber as Pancho Grande
- Sidney Blackmer as Ellery Gibson
- Joe Sawyer as Allen
- Andrew Tombes as Mayor Tubbs
- Murray Alper as Flood
- Arthur Loft as Homer Gerard
- Duncan Renaldo as Juan