Avenging Waters
{{short description|1936 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Avenging Waters
| image = Avenging waters poster.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = Spencer Gordon Bennet
| producer = Larry Darmour
| writer = Nate Gatzert
| starring = Ken Maynard
Beth Marion
Ward Bond
John Elliott
| cinematography = James S. Brown Jr.
| editing = Dwight Caldwell
| studio = Larry Darmour Productions
| distributor = Columbia Pictures
| released = {{film date|1936|5|8}}
| runtime = 56 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
}}
Avenging Waters is a 1936 American western film directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet and starring Ken Maynard, Beth Marion, Ward Bond and John Elliott. It was written by Nate Gatzert.
Plot
Charles Mortimer buys cattle from Ken Morley and builds a fence to keep them in. His neighbour, Slater, is angered by Mortimer's actions because he wants access to the land. By way of revenge, he builds a dam cutting off Mortimer's water supply. Morley confronts Slater, and Slater captures and imprisons him in a shack. The dam is subsequently destroyed by lightning, and the shack holding Morley is in the path of the oncoming wall of water. Aided by his horse and a stout rope, Morley is able to get the bars off the shack window and escape the shack, riding toward Mortimer's place just ahead of the water. Mortimer and his henchman hear the water coming and flee the ranch on horseback, riding double. But they've left behind another prisoner, the girl. Morley is just in time to scoop her up in his arms and ride up a nearby hillock to safety, as the water, having already destroyed his shack-prison, rushes over top of the Mortimer ranch. They get married, and Mortimer and his man are never heard from again.
Cast
- Ken Maynard as Ken Morley
- Beth Marion as Mary Mortimer
- Ward Bond as Marve Slater
- John Elliott as Charles Mortimer
- Zella Russell as Aunt Eloise Smythe
- Hal Taliaferro as Slivers
- The Stafford Sisters as comic singers (uncredited)
External links
- {{IMDb title|0027322}}
{{Spencer Gordon Bennet}}
Category:1930s English-language films
Category:1936 Western (genre) films
Category:American Western (genre) films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Columbia Pictures films
Category:Films directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
Category:English-language Western (genre) films
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