Ambush
1939 · 82 min
Drama · Crime
★ 6.0Four 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.
Crew
- Director Kurt Neumann
- Screenplay Laura Perelman
- Screenplay S.J. Perelman
- Story Robert Ray
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
- H
Harry Fleischmann
Captain Bosen
Clem Bevans
Pop Stebbins
Crew
- Director — Kurt Neumann
- Screenplay — Laura Perelman
- Screenplay — S.J. Perelman
- Story — Robert Ray
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