The Redemption of Red Rube
About The Redemption of Red Rube
Sheriff Sanders is leaving to chase the jail-breaker Red Rube when Spotted Snake, from the reservation, demands whiskey and is thrown out. Snake comes back, takes the sheriff’s little girl, and leaves her in the desert. At Silver City, Rube shoots Sanders in the arm and runs from a posse that wants to lynch him. He finds the child in the desert. Going back with her means the rope. He takes her home anyway. The sheriff shakes his hand. Moving Picture World is the source of this outline. Robert Thornby, George Stanley, Anne Schaefer, and Eagle Eye are the billed players.
Cast & crew
More about The Redemption of Red Rube
Rollin S. Sturgeon directed. A YouTube copy and IMDb credit the Vitagraph Company of America and date the short 1912. This record’s year is 1911. No reel length is printed with the Moving Picture World synopsis.
Themes
Making
Sturgeon’s western puts the outlaw and the sheriff’s daughter in the same stretch of desert, then sends Rube back into the town that wants to hang him.
Notes
- The posse wants a lynching after the saloon shooting in Silver City. The saloon in the synopsis is the Silver King’s.
- Spotted Snake’s revenge is the kidnapping, not a gunfight with Rube.
- Rube’s change of mind is the child’s trust, and he expects to be punished for the shooting.
- The American Film Manufacturing Company is not the company on the Vitagraph credit.
Scenes
- Spotted Snake rides off with the sheriff’s daughter and abandons her.
- Rube, already wanted for shooting Sanders, finds the child and turns back toward Silver City.
- Sanders takes Rube’s hand.
