Adventures of the Texas Kid: Border Ambush
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
Hugh Hooker
as Don Sturgis aka The Texas Kid
John Laurenz
as Pepe Martinez
Pamela Blake
as Betty Johnson
Terry Frost
as Ray Finch
Monte Blue
as Sheriff
James Kirkwood
as Tim Johnson
Frank Jaquet
as Judge
Frank J. Scannell
as Frank Blake
John Compton
as Baden
Frank Marlowe
as Henchman Barton
