Adventures Of The Texas Kid: Border Ambush (1954) On DVD

Actor:           Hugh Hooker, John Laurenz, Pamela Blake, Terry Frost, Monte Blue
Director:      Robert Tansey
Genre:          Western, TV Series
Year:             1954
Studio:         Alpha Video
Length:        1 hours, 17 minutes
Released:   April 29, 2014
Rating:         Not Rated
Format:        DVD
Misc:             Black & White
Language:   English
Subtitles  :   N/A

DESCRIPTION:

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. -- Tom Weaver

BONUS: The Gabby Hayes Show: Host Gabby introduces a digest version of 1947's Law Of The Lashstarring Lash LaRue.