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What happened to Sam Wood before Ambush was released?

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Sam Wood (Foreground, from left to right) Groucho Marx, Margaret Dumont, Chico Marx, and Harpo Marx in *A Night at the Opera* (1935), directed by Sam Wood.

Before the film Ambush was released in 1950, the director Sam Wood suffered a fatal heart attack. He died on September 22, 1949, in Los Angeles, California.12