Adventures of the Texas Kid: Border Ambush

Adventures of the Texas Kid: Border Ambush

1954 · 77 min · ★ 7.0 · TV Movie, Western

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.

Directed by Robert Emmett Tansey · Written by Robert Emmett Tansey

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Hugh Hooker Don Sturgis aka The Texas Kid
John Laurenz Pepe Martinez
Pamela Blake Betty Johnson
Terry Frost Ray Finch
Monte Blue Sheriff
James Kirkwood Tim Johnson
Frank Jaquet Judge
Frank J. Scannell Frank Blake
John Compton Baden
Frank Marlowe Henchman Barton
Jack Low Henchman Ripper
Johnny Carpenter Henchman Brock

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