Adventures of the Texas Kid: Border Ambush
1954, English. Directed by Robert Emmett Tansey.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 17m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- English
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Cast & crew
- Robert Emmett TanseyDirector
- Hugh HookerDon Sturgis aka The Texas Kid
- John LaurenzPepe Martinez
- Pamela BlakeBetty Johnson
- Terry FrostRay Finch
- Monte BlueSheriff
- James KirkwoodTim Johnson
- Frank JaquetJudge
- Frank J. ScannellFrank Blake
- John ComptonBaden
- Frank MarloweHenchman Barton
- Jack LowHenchman Ripper
- Johnny CarpenterHenchman Brock
Details
- Released
- 1 January 1954
- Country
- United States of America
- Written by
- Robert Emmett Tansey
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Adventures of the Texas Kid: Border Ambush (1954) was directed by Robert Emmett Tansey and stars Hugh Hooker, John Laurenz, Pamela Blake.