Seven Ways From Sundown (1960), Sealed Cargo (1951), Forbidden Trails (1941), Backlash (1956), Roughshod (1949), The Nest (2002), Drum Beat (1954), Many Rivers to Cross (1955) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Ambush movies.
Storyline: Audie Murphy is again the kid who puts on a badge to catch the bad guy, skillfully played by Barry Sullivan. On the way back to town the two develop a curiously close relationship - Sullivan passes up several chances to get away - but in the end Sullivan "asks for it" and Murphy obliges.—Rita Richardson <RRichar790@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: texas ranger, outlaw, veteran, lieutenant, sergeant, love interest, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During the war off Nova Scotia a fishing boat comes across a badly damaged Danish schooner with only the captain aboard after it has apparently been shelled by a German U-boat. Not realising the sinister real purpose of the larger boat, the fishermen agree to tow it into an isolated harbour.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: fisherman, woman, captain, spy, nazi, sailor, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Trapped in a burning cabin by ex-cons Fulton and Howard, Roberts has his horse Silver drag him to safety. He then joins McCall and Hopkins as they go after Fulton, Howard, and their boss Cramer.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: marshal, convict, partner, friend, fiancée, saloon owner, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jim Slater's father (whom he never knew) died in the Apache ambush at Gila Valley, and Jim is searching for the one survivor, who supposedly went for help but disappeared with a lot of gold. In the process, he gets several people gunning for him, and he keeps meeting liberated woman Karyl Orton, who may be on a similar mission. Renewed Apache hostilities and an impending range war provide complications.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: gunslinger, adversary, sergeant, father, widow, sheriff, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Wrangler Clay Phillips and his younger brother Steve are taking horses to their ranch near Sonora when they come across four dance hall girls heading the same way with a wrecked buggy. One of the girls is taken away by a boyfriend who came after her. Clay takes the girls on to the nearest ranch, where it turns out one of the girls is the homesteaders' wayward daughter. As Clay already has an escaped killer and his two fellow convicts after him he is reluctant to have to take the remaining two girls on with him but they are set on getting to Sonora.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: cattle rancher, younger brother, sheriff, ex-convict, friend, dance hall girl, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Albanian crime lord Abedin Nexhep (Angelo Infanti) is being transported to trial by a specially trained police squad led by tough female commander Helene Laborie (Nadia Farès). Nexhap's hired killers attack the convoy en route, and the survivors retreat to a warehouse. Inside, Santino (Benoît Magimel) and his gang of thieves are stealing laptop computers. When Nexhap's men find the warehouse and prepare to assault, the police and thieves must fight together to get through the night alive.
Plot Keywords: mobster, commanding officer, thief, security guard, sharpshooter, gritty, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: President Grant orders Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate peace with the Modocs of northern California and southern Oregon. On the way he must escort Nancy Meek to the home of her aunt and uncle. After Modoc renegade Captain Jack's group engages in ambush and other atrocities, MacKay eventually ends up tracking Captain Jack down and fighting him one-on-one to apprehend him.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: cowboy, native american warrior, daughter, driver, ulysses s. grant, army officer, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During 1798,Bushrod Gentry is a Kentucky trapper who travels from place to place,sometimes staying with settler families for a night or two before moving on.Being a handsome man he often breaks the hearts of the unmarried young daughters of his hosts and it always leads to proposals of marriage from the girls' part.This causes Bushrod to quickly pack his gear, give the smitten girl his standard speech about why he cannot marry or settle down and depart in a hurry, leaving the girl in tears.But one day,after being saved from an Indian attack by young Scotish woman, Mary Stuart Cherne, he takes shelter with her family until his broken arm can heal.Invariably,the girl falls for his charm and asks him to marry her.Bushrod gives her his standard speech and thinks he's off the hook but stubborn Mary Stuart is not so easily dissuaded.This leads to lies, insinuations, evasive actions, hilarity, fist fights with her brothers, a shooting contest, broken promises and a shotgun wedding.Bushrod is determined to leave and he has a few tricks up his sleeve.—nufs68
Plot Keywords: trapper, frontiersman, frontier woman, father, tomboy, native american warrior, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Siblings Mimi and Luke unwittingly resurrect an ancient alien overlord. Using a magical amulet, they force the monster to obey their childish whims, and accidentally attract a rogues' gallery of intergalactic assassins to small-town suburbia.
Plot Keywords: police chief, psychic, detective, victim, amusing, offbeat, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An ambitious reporter (Georgina Campbell) stationed in the Middle East is taken captive after a militant group ambushes her convoy. Convinced that the young woman is hiding her true identity, they'll stop at nothing to extract information crucial to the success of their upcoming terrorist attack. With time running out, she must find a way to survive and turn the tables on her assailants.
Plot Keywords: journalist, reporter, captive, captor, militant, military official, militia member ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1865 in Nevada, former Confederate Captain Ben Lassiter and his daughter Abbey travel through Modoc territory on their way to Oregon. At Fenniman's Station they stop for a meal, a bath and supplies. Inside the way-station, a group of Union soldiers, led by Lieutenant Weeks, are enjoying a meal. The patrol escorts an Army payroll and two sisters to meet another patrol, led by Captain Howard Poole. One of the sisters, Beth Drury, is engaged to Poole. The other sister, Martha Drury, is bitter at having lost her fiance during the American Civil War. When Ben Lassiter and his daughter sit for a meal inside the way-station, Martha Drury reacts badly toward the former Confederate officer and asks the Union patrol to arrest Lassiter. However, the Union patrol commander explains the civil war is over, shrugs Martha's suggestion off and orders the patrol to move on. Unknown to them, the Modocs have already set up a nearby ambush while other Modocs have surrounded Captain Poole's troop, pinning them down. Ben Lassiter and his daughter Abbey are the last to leave Fenniman's Station. Resuming their journey, they travel all day and they set up a night camp just off the trail. During the night, Ben Lassiter scouts around and notices a group of drunken Modoc Indians carrying liquor jugs, similar to those sold at Fenniman's Station. Fearing that the Indians have attacked Fenniman's Station, Ben Lassiter decides to wait for the sunrise and warn Lieutenant Weeks' payroll escort of the danger. Ironically, a former Confederate officer is attempting to save Union soldiers' lives.—nufs68
Plot Keywords: confederate soldier, daughter, native american, survivor, sister, union soldier, fiery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A mysterious stranger and a random act of violence drag a town of misfits and nitwits into the bloody crosshairs of revenge.
Plot Keywords: mysterious drifter, dog, marshal, son, wife, misfit, brash ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Curley Thompson purchases a ranch near the town of Douglas and is surprised to find that his inherited, happy-go-lucky foreman, Sam Hawkins, can't even ride a horse. Freight owner Hatch Bolton is boss of the town and is out to ruin the local ranchers in order to get their ranches and sell to a Chicago grain combine. After Sheriff Tom Gordon is ambushed, his brother Walter and Alice Rhodes join Curley in his fight against Bolton. A rancher is murdered and Bolton tries to frame Curley, but Gordon lets him out of jail. Curley learns that the murdered man had been trying to tell him that a pair of steer horns over the bar contain the evidence needed against Bolton.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: rancher, foreman, sheriff, deputy, murder victim, henchman, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A cavalry officer, the sole survivor of an Indian attack, and a wagon load of prisoners travel through hostile Indian country.
Plot Keywords: army officer, native american, native american chief, native american warrior, pioneer, stagecoach driver, stagecoach owner ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A vicious outlaw called Pecos Pete (Onslow Stevens) has long tormented the peaceful residents of a small frontier town. So these desperate people hire a dedicated new sheriff, Tex Miller (Glenn Ford), to bring this ruffian to justice. But, for all his determination, Tex is tricked by Pete and led into an ambush. Ultimately, it is the wily and brassy transplant Belinda "Bill" Pendergast (Penny Singleton) who uncovers Pete's true identity and plots a way to run him out of town once and for all.
Plot Keywords: cowboy, outlaw, showgirl, sheriff, girlfriend, cattle rustler, winsome ...
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