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.
Release Date : Jan 01, 1954
Production Company : John Jay Franklin Productions
Production Countries : United States of America
Original Language :
Casts : Hugh Hooker, John Laurenz, Pamela Blake, Terry Frost, Monte Blue, James Kirkwood, Frank Jaquet, Frank J. Scannell, John Compton, Frank Marlowe, Jack Low
Director :
Status : Released
Budget : 0
Revenue : 0
