In
this exciting episode of The Perils of Pauline entitled Deadly Turning our
heroine Pauline Marvin (Pearl White) has entered herself into an auto race. She
has not told anyone she entered. Pauline tells Harry and her guardian Koener
when a letter arrived to inform her that she has been accepted into the race.
Koener sees this as another
excellent opportunity to get rid of Pauline so he can take her money from her
inheritance. He goes to another one of his many associates for help in his
quest. This associate he threatens most likely because Koener knows something
he did and does not want word to get out. Koener tells this associate to take
his car (Koener’s) in the race and when they come around a bend he is to get
close enough to Pauline to make her go over the edge. Koener has yet another
associate throw something on the road when Pauline comes to a certain spot to
make her crash.
During the race the associate who
was supposed to be throwing things on the road is caught and chased away. And
the other associate did not manage to get Pauline to go over the edge. Pauline
safely wins the race.
The
Deadly Turn is short running just under ten minutes. There was no time to
really feel any excitement or to get into the story. Even though she did not do
anything significant in this film Pauline Marvin is still a great film character.
Here is a woman in 1917 entering an auto race. What a daredevil!
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