Adventures of the Texas Kid: Border Ambush
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1954-01-01
Runtime: 77 mins
Director: Robert Emmett Tansey
Writer: Robert Emmett Tansey
Spoken language:
Genres: TV Movie, Western
Original title: Adventures of the Texas Kid: Border Ambush
Production Companies: John Jay Franklin Productions
Production Countries: United States of America
Cast
Hugh Hooker
John Laurenz
Pamela Blake
Terry Frost
Monte Blue
James Kirkwood
Frank Jaquet
Frank J. Scannell
John Compton
Frank Marlowe
Jack Low
Johnny Carpenter
Noble 'Kid' Chissell
Ann Duncan
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