Adventures of the Texas Kid: Border Ambush

Adventures of the Texas Kid: Border Ambush

🎞️ Movie 77 min US
1954

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.

Cast

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Hugh Hooker
Don Sturgis - aka The Texas Kid
John Laurenz
John Laurenz
Pepe Martinez
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Pamela Blake
Betty Johnson
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Terry Frost
Ray Finch
Monte Blue
Monte Blue
Sheriff
James Kirkwood
James Kirkwood
Tim Johnson
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Frank Jaquet
Judge
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Frank J. Scannell
Frank Blake
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John Compton
Baden
Frank Marlowe
Frank Marlowe
Barton - Henchman
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Leonard Clairmont
Cinematographer