Title: Ambush Valley
Year: 1936
Genres: Western
Director: Bernard B. Ray (credited as Franklin Shamray)

Cast:

• Bob Custer as Bruce Potter
• Victoria Vinton as Ann Potter
• Vane Calvert as Ma Potter
• Philip Phillips as Clay Morgan
• Hal Taliaferro (billed as Wally Wales) as Joel Potter
• Oscar Gahan as Diggs
• Ed Cassidy as Nester
• Victor Adamson (as Denver Dixon) as Nester
• Wally West as Nester
• Jimmy Aubrey (as Jack Anderson) as Father
• Jack Gilman as Son
• The Oklahoma Rangers as Musicians

Synopsis:

When outlaw Clay Morgan shoots and kills Joel Potter, Marshal Lamar Blyth faces a wrenching duty: he must arrest Bruce Potter—the slain man’s brother and the sibling of his fiancée, Ann. Torn between his love for Ann and his oath to uphold the law, Blyth navigates a powder-keg frontier town where land disputes between cattlemen and homesteaders keep tempers at the breaking point. As tensions erupt in gunplay, Blyth races to bring Morgan to justice and restore peace—before the valley erupts in all-out bloodshed.

Trivia:

• Produced on “Poverty Row” by Reliable Pictures, the film runs just 57 minutes and was released states-rights style rather than through a major studio.
• Bernard B. Ray used the pseudonym Franklin Shamray in the credits.
• It was remade in 1950 as West of the Brazos.
• The U.S. copyright was not renewed, placing Ambush Valley in the public domain.