Adventures of the Texas Kid Border Ambush (1954)

In TVs 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 rarelyseen TV pilot the Kid and Pepe intercede on behalf of the murdered ranchers 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 costarred 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 lowbudget gem That movies star was Hughs teenage son Buddy Joe Hooker whose own subsequent stellar stunt career inspired HOOPER 1978 Burt Reynolds hit comedy tribute to movie stuntmen