Adventures of the Texas Kid: Border Ambush (1954)
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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.
- Release date
- January 1, 1954
- Country of origin
- United States
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 Barton - Henchman
Crew
- Robert Emmett Tansey · Director
- Robert Emmett Tansey · Writer
- John Jay Franklin · Producer
- Leonard Clairmont · Cinematographer
- Reg Browne · Editor