Down Mexico Way (1941)
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!
77 min
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.
- Release date
- October 15, 1941
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Gene Autry as Gene Autry
- Smiley Burnette as Frog Millhouse
- 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
Crew
- Joseph Santley · Director
- Dorrell McGowan · Writer
- Stuart E. McGowan · Writer
- Olive Cooper · Writer
- Albert Duffy · Writer
- Jack A. Marta · Cinematographer
- Howard O'Neill · Editor