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Monday, April 28, 2014

Ambush Valley (1936)

An American western directed by Bernard B. Ray a.k.a. Franklin Shamray.
A gang of outlaws is in conflict with settlers in an area and one of the outlaws shoots a settler in a bar. The sheriff tries to deal with the situation before everyone kills each other.
Clocking in at 47 minutes and 44 seconds, it didn't take long to get through. What was there was a little convoluted and murky of plot, unidentifiable of characters and totally lacking in style. The acting and editing was horrible and it featured only diegetic music when non-diegetic would have been better (my opinion). It seems to me that they focused all their energy on quantity of plot and characters rather than quality of anything at all. I'm rating it poor.