Avenging Waters

Avenging Waters is a 1936 western starring Ken Maynard, Beth Marion, Ward Bond and John Elliott. It was written by Nat Gatzert and directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet. A film about a land dispute. Charles Mortimer (Elliott) buys cattle from Ken Morley (Maynard) and builds a fence to keep them in. His neighbour, Slater (Bond), 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 Mortimer is in the path of the oncoming surge of water.