Ambush (DVD)

The U.S. Cavalry knows that traveling the unmapped Arizona Territory canyons and trails in search of a woman kidnapped by Apaches could mean riding into a trap. So they ask the help of Ward Kinman, a prospector and scout who knows both the terrain and the ways of the warring tribesmen. Nearly a decade after Billy the Kid, Robert Taylor saddled up a second time and portrayed Kinman in Ambush, the film that began his steady string of work in a genre that suited him like a Colt 45 tucked easy into hip leather. Marguerite Roberts (True Grit) offers a script filled with blazing action and romantic subplots. Among the co-stars: Chief Thundercloud (Tonto in the Lone Ranger serials of 1938 and 1939).

Starring: Robert Taylor, John Hodiak, Arlene Dahl, Don Taylor, Jean Hagen, Pat Moriarty, Chief Thundercloud, Ray Teal, Robin Short, Richard Bailey, Cliff Clark, Pat Moriarity, Bruce Cowling, Leon Ames, John McIntire, Charles Stevens, Lane Chandler, Marta Mitrovich, Florence Lake, Charles Cane, Ray Bennett, Archie Butler, Tom Forman, Robert Hoy, Carol Henry, Bill Hale, James Van Horn, Reed Howes, Lynn Farr, Phil Schumacher, Arthur Loew Jr., Hank Mann, Heinie Conklin, Fred Somers, Peter Prouse, James Harrison, William Haade, Pat O'Malley

Director: Armand Deutsch