Ambush

Ambush

HOW DID HE GET AWAY WITH IT!

NR 1939 · 82 min · ★ 6.0 · Drama, Crime

Four bandits swoop down on a California bank and flee with $98,000, leaving a truck as the only clue to their identity. Jane Hartman, bank secretary, recognizes the truck as one on which her brother Charles worked. Fleeing to her brother, she is trapped by the gang, composed of its master-mind, Gibbs, Sidney, a gunman, and Randall, a blackballed airplane pilot. Under threat of bodily harm to her brother, she lures truck-driver Tony Andrews to the hideout, and he is forced to help them in their escape attempt.

Directed by Kurt Neumann · Written by Laura Perelman

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Cast

Gladys Swarthout Jane Hartman
Lloyd Nolan Tony Andrews
William Henry Charlie Hartman
William Frawley Inspector J.L. Weber
Ernest Truex Mr. Gibbs
Broderick Crawford Randall
Rufe Davis Centerville Sheriff
Richard Denning Police Garage Mechanic
John Hartley Sidney Blue
Antonio Moreno Captain Mike Gonzalez
Harry Fleischmann Captain Bosen
Clem Bevans Pop Stebbins

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