Ambush

January. 20,1939      NR
Rating:
5.6
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

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

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