(Adventures of the Texas Kid: Border Ambush)

Content: 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.

Countries:

United States of America

Genres:

TV Movie,

Western

Runtime:

77 minutes

Year:

1954

Directors:

Robert Emmett Tansey

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Production companies:

John Jay Franklin Productions

Actors:

Don Sturgis aka The Texas Kid

Pepe Martinez

Betty Johnson

Ray Finch

Sheriff

Crews:

Director

Writer