Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Charles Giblyn
Stars: Murdock MacQuarrie, Lon
Chaney and Seymour Hastings
Release Date: 22 July 1914 (USA)
Filming Locations: Nestor
Studios, Gower Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Production Co: Nestor Film
Company, Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Sound Mix: Silent
Color: Black and White
Plot Keywords: Inside Job |
Undercover Detective | Bandit | Robbery | Hold Up | Mirror |
Silent Film | Attempted Rape |
Posse | Outlaw Gang | Informant | Boss' Daughter | Gold Mine
Genres: Short | Action | Drama |
Western
A company detective goes
undercover to expose a gang that uses inside information to rob gold
shipments.
Frank Lawler, a clerk for a
mining company, colludes with a bandit gang about the timing of gold shipments
with a mirror signal system and has designs on Doris Davis, the daughter of the
local branch manager. The company's main office dispatches their top detective
John Murdock, who goes undercover to expose the scheme and rescue the Doris
from the unwanted advances of the dastardly Lawler.
Revealing mistakes
The set used for the gold company
office is obviously an outdoor set without a roof as the ledger pages on
Chaney's desk can be seen blowing in the wind. Early sets were usually built
without sets to take advantage of free natural lighting.
Quotes
John Murdock, the Detective: I am
going to look around and will meet the posse at the crossroads.
Connections
Featured in Lon Chaney: A
Thousand Faces (2000)
