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Turning the Table
Also known as [Turning the Tables]
(1913) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Bertram Bracken
Cast: Henry King [Ranger Bob Tenny], Velma Whitman [Salita], Henry Stanley [Ramon, Salita’s father], Betty Burbridge [May Sawyer]
Lubin Manufacturing Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Produced by Siegmund Lubin. / Released 20 November 1913. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama: Western.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Ramon, a notorious Mexican bandit, camps his outlaws in a ravine in the hills near John Sawyer’s Texas ranch. He rustles some horses from the ranch, leaving a note of thanks on the gate post. The morning following the theft, Bob Tenny and his squad of rangers visit the ranch. Bob is in love with May Sawyer. When Sawyer finds Ramon’s note he turns it over to Bob. The latter vows to capture the bandit. Salita, the unscrupulous daughter of Ramon, who roams the roads as a spy, hears Bob’s vow and determines to checkmate him. She attracts Bob’s attention and infatuates him. She agrees to meet him the next morning at the forks of the ravine trails. Leaving Bob, Salita goes to the bandit camp and plots with Ramon to capture the ranger. Next morning Salita meets Bob and lures him down the trail into the ravine. May finding Bob gone, rides off on the upper trail. On the edge of a high bluff May hears voices and peering over sees the bandits in their camp below. She also sees Bob and Salita talking lover-like. Although downcast by the discovery of Bob’s faithlessness. May realizes his danger and rides off to warn the ranger. May arrives in the ravine too late and is forced to watch Bob’s capture by Ramon and Salita. The bandit and his daughter disarm the ranger and handcuff him around a slender tree with his own handcuffs. Ramon and Salita then leave the ranger, declaring they will go to the camp, get the remainder of the outlaws and lynch Bob. After the captors leave, May, who has heard the threat, appears and tries in vain to break the handcuffs. Then, using an axe left by Ramon, she chops down the tree. Bob is released just in time to escape. He and May ride off on May’s horse, followed by a shower of bullets. The rangers at the ranch hear the firing and meet Bob and May at the forks. May leads them to the point on the upper trail above the bandit camp. Here the rangers descend the bluff and form an ambush for the bandits, who return to the camp with the intention of moving on at once. All are captured. As for Bob’s fate in the hands of May, there is a question. She tells the shamed ranger that she “may marry him some time, but not now.”
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 5 October 2023.
References: Website-IMDb.
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