Movie
Ambush
Released: January 20, 1939 (1939)
Runtime: 82 minutes
Genres: 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.
Main Cast (Top 10 billed, oldest first)
- William Frawley as Inspector J.L. Weber
Age at release: 51
- Antonio Moreno as Captain Mike Gonzalez
Age at release: 51
- Ernest Truex as Mr. Gibbs
Age at release: 49
- Gladys Swarthout as Jane Hartman
Age at release: 41
- Lloyd Nolan as Tony Andrews
Age at release: 36
- Rufe Davis as Centerville Sheriff
Age at release: 30
- Broderick Crawford as Randall
Age at release: 27
- John Hartley as Sidney Blue
Age at release: 26
- William Henry as Charlie Hartman
Age at release: 24
- Richard Denning as Police Garage Mechanic
Age at release: 24
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- Clem Bevans as Pop Stebbins
Age at release: 58
- Polly Moran as Cora, diner owner
Age at release: 55
- Wade Boteler as Bank Guard Riley
Age at release: 50
- Max Hoffman Jr. as Motorcycle Officer Sam Moore
Age at release: 36
- Archie Twitchell as Bank Teller
Age at release: 32
- Billy Lee as Boy at Restaurant
Age at release: 9
- Harry Fleischmann as Captain Bosen
Age at release: Unknown
- Jane Dewey as Mother at Restaurant
Age at release: Unknown