A Miner's Romance [SEP] cast member
A Miner's Romance
A Miner's Romance is a 1914 American silent Western film featuring Lon Chaney. The film is now considered to be lost.
Cast.
- Murdock MacQuarrie as Bob Jenkins
- Agnes Vernon as Lucy Williams
- Lon Chaney as John Burns
- Seymour Hastings as Dave Williams
medical career, dramatically mixing realism, romance and social criticism. Cronin's works examine moral conflicts between the individual and society, as his idealistic heroes pursue justice for the common man. One of his early novels, "The Stars Look Down" (1935), chronicles transgressions in a mining community in north-east England and an ambitious miner's rise to be a Member of Parliament.
A prodigiously fast writer, Cronin liked to average 5,000 words a day, meticulously planning the details of his plots in advance.