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Ambush (1950 film)

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The expedition sets off. Tana disappears to warn Diablito, but Ward kills him before he can. Eventually the trackers come across Diablito’s camp and stampede the horses. A gun battle ensues. A cavalry re-enforcement column arrives and routs the Indians. Ward rescues Mary. Lorrison sets off in pursuit
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Setting out on the trail with a few cavalrymen and Ann, they come across an Apache encampment. Ward learns from an Apache woman that Mary has been taken by a chief called Diablito. Returning to the cavalry fort with Tana, a captive who had refused to either fight or flee, preparations are made for a
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Mary and Ann are re-united back at the fort. Ann concedes that Kinsman was right, and indeed many lives would be lost attempting to save just one; this opens the door for him to reverse himself and acknowledge that someone had to stop Diablito to end his rampaging ways, and Lorrison was willing to
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of a small band of escaping warriors, who ambush and decimate their pursuers. After killing Lorrison Diablito plays dead, lying in wait for Kinsman, whom has previously captured and returned him to a reservation. Sensing a set-up, Kinsman gets Diablito to reveal himself, and slays him.
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Captain Lorrison proposes marriage to Ann; she postpones a yes. Ann tells Ward that she intends to accept his proposal, but Ward gets her to admit that she is not in love with him.
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In 1878, Ward Kinsman, an Indian scout turned prospector, has been persuaded by the US Cavalry to find Mary Carlyle, the daughter of a general, who has been taken by
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According to MGM records the film earned $ 2,108,000 in the US and Canada and $ 1,107,000 overseas, resulting in a $ 401,000 profit.
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full-scale expedition to find Diablito and capture or destroy he and his renegades.
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Principal photography was done on location at the Corriganville Ranch in
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pay that price. The mutual unburdenings draw the pair closer together.
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Index


Sam Wood
Marguerite Roberts
The Saturday Evening Post
Luke Short
Armand Deutsch
Robert Taylor
John Hodiak
Arlene Dahl
Harold Lipstein
Ben Lewis
Rudolph G. Kopp
Black and white
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Western
Robert Taylor
John Hodiak
Arlene Dahl
Sam Wood
Luke Short
The Saturday Evening Post
Simi Valley, California
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Jungle Jim
Gallup, New Mexico
Apaches
Robert Taylor
Arlene Dahl
John Hodiak
Don Taylor

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