Adventures of the Texas Kid: Border Ambush
Adventures of the Texas Kid: Border Ambush

Adventures of the Texas Kid: Border Ambush

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1 hr 17 min

1954-01-01

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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.

TV Movie

Western

Trailers

Characters

Hugh Hooker

Hugh Hooker

Don Sturgis aka The Texas Kid

John Laurenz

John Laurenz

Pepe Martinez

Pamela Blake

Pamela Blake

Betty Johnson

Terry Frost

Terry Frost

Ray Finch

Monte Blue

Monte Blue

Sheriff

James Kirkwood

James Kirkwood

Tim Johnson

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