Adventures of the Texas Kid: Border Ambush

Jan 1, 1954

1h 17m

★ 0.0

Overview

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.

Genres

TV Movie

Western

Production Companies

John Jay Franklin Productions

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Cast

Don Sturgis aka The Texas Kid

Hugh Hooker

Pepe Martinez

John Laurenz

Betty Johnson

Pamela Blake

Ray Finch

Terry Frost

Sheriff

Monte Blue

Tim Johnson

James Kirkwood

Judge

Frank Jaquet

Frank Blake

Frank J. Scannell

Baden

John Compton

Henchman Barton

Frank Marlowe

Henchman Ripper

Jack Low

Henchman Brock

Johnny Carpenter

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Adventures of the Texas Kid: Border Ambush

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