Ambush (1939)

6.0/10 82 min Drama Crime

Overview

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.

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

Clem Bevans

Pop Stebbins

Max Hoffman Jr.

Motorcycle Officer Sam Moore

Archie Twitchell

Bank Teller

Billy Lee

Boy at Restaurant

Polly Moran

Cora, diner owner

Wade Boteler

Bank Guard Riley

George Melford

Bank President Wales

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