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.
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
Paul Fix
as Henchman Davis
Julian Rivero
as Don Carlos Alvarado
