Adventures of the Texas Kid: Border Ambush

In TV's pioneer days when kids idolized the Lone Ranger, the Texas Kid was a knight errant of the frontier leading the fight for law and order alongside his Mexican companion Pepe. In this rarely-seen TV pilot, the Kid and Pepe intercede on behalf of the murdered rancher's daughter, openly defying the landgrabbers in a cow town so lawless that rustlers operate in broad daylight! Shot at the Corrigan Ranch in 1950, TEXAS KID co-starred Mercury Records recording artist John Laurenz as Pepe and stuntman Hugh Hooker as the Kid. Hooker, a specialist in stunts involving horses and stagecoaches, often doubled Gene Autry and even produced a few movies, including the low-budget gem . That movie's star was Hugh's teenage son Buddy Joe Hooker, whose own subsequent, stellar stunt career inspired HOOPER (1978), Burt Reynolds' hit comedy tribute to movie stuntmen.

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77 min

Cast

Hugh Hooker

as Don Sturgis aka The Texas Kid

John Laurenz

as Pepe Martinez

Pamela Blake

as Betty Johnson

Terry Frost

as Ray Finch

Monte Blue

as Sheriff

James Kirkwood

as Tim Johnson

Frank Jaquet

as Judge

Frank J. Scannell

as Frank Blake

John Compton

as Baden

Frank Marlowe

as Henchman Barton

Jack Low

as Henchman Ripper

Johnny Carpenter

as Henchman Brock

Noble 'Kid' Chissell

as Henchman Montana

Ann Duncan

as Sis Johnson

Bobby Taylor

as Bobby Johnson

Director

Robert Emmett Tansey