
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.
Hugh Hooker
Don Sturgis aka The Texas Kid

John Laurenz
Pepe Martinez

Pamela Blake
Betty Johnson

Terry Frost
Ray Finch

Monte Blue
Sheriff

James Kirkwood
Tim Johnson
Frank Jaquet
Judge

Frank J. Scannell
Frank Blake

John Compton
Baden

Frank Marlowe
Henchman Barton
Jack Low
Henchman Ripper

Johnny Carpenter
Henchman Brock

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