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Down Mexico Way

Release Date:October 15, 1941

Running Time:54 min

Genres:Comedy, Western

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Cast

Gene Autry Smiley Burnette Fay McKenzie Harold Huber Sidney Blackmer Joe Sawyer Andrew Tombes Murray Alper Arthur Loft Duncan Renaldo Paul Fix Julian Rivero

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

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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