Down Mexico Way

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!

A charismatic cowboy journeys down to Mexico with his loyal sidekick. They must track down cunning con artists and retrieve the stolen funds of innocent townsfolk.

Date of release
1941-10-15
TMDB
10.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 11m
Genres
Western, Comedy
Director
Joseph Santley

Casting

Interesting facts

Down Mexico Way is a 1941 American Western film directed by Joseph Santley and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Fay McKenzie. Based on a story by Dorrell and Stuart E. McGowan, the film is about a singing cowboy who comes to the aid of the townspeople of Sage City who are victims of a nefarious scam.

Production

Between 1941 and 1942, Fay McKenzie appeared as the leading lady in five Gene Autry films: Down Mexico Way (1941), Sierra Sue (1941), Cowboy Serenade (1942), Heart of the Rio Grande (1942), and Home in Wyomin' (1942). Born in Hollywood, California in 1918 into a show business family, McKenzie made her screen debut at the age of 10 weeks old as Gloria Swanson's baby in Station Content (1918).

I loved working with Gene, he was terrific! I could sing and that was something the earlier girls couldn't do. Yates knew I had done Broadway; that helped! I could do more than smile and wave at the cowboy! ... He was also a brilliant businessman! Not a fly-by-night. It was a wonderful, rich experience.

Down Mexico Way was filmed August 18 to September 6, 1941. The film had an operating budget of $124,947 (equal to $2,734,982 today), and a negative cost of $133,520.

Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, California, USA

Corriganville Movie Ranch, Simi Valley, California, USA

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