The Texas Streak

The Texas Streak is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by Lynn Reynolds and starring Hoot Gibson.

[1] As described in a film magazine,[2] Chad Pennington, a motion picture extra on location with a Hollywood movie company in Arizona, is stranded with his pals Jiggs and Swede when they lose their railroad fares in a game of craps and cannot persuade the hardhearted assistant director to provide transportation.

Chad goes to Bowie, the nearest town, and discovers that the water company is warring with the ranchers, and wants to hire a gun-man to guard its surveyors.

He attends a masked country dance, quarrels with Powell, a rancher who is leading the fight, flees from the house, not knowing that his enemy, firing at him, has wounded Jimmy Hollis, young son of another rancher, and brother of Amy Hollis, in whom Chad has become interested.

The hardboiled assistant director hunts up the "bad man" with the astonishing report that the company has decided to star Chad in some western films.