The Oyster Dredger [SEP] director
The Oyster Dredger
The Oyster Dredger is a 1915 American silent drama film written by, directed by and featuring Lon Chaney. The film is now considered to be lost.
Cast.
- J. Warren Kerrigan as Jack
- Vera Sisson as Vera
- Lon Chaney
- William Quinn as The Lawyer
on the schooners "May Brown", "Anna B. Smith" and "Bessie Jones". The oyster wars continued with one account involving "Bessie Jones" in 1906 resulting in the Captain, Douglas Russel killing one of the oyster pirates. Russel had been warned by a dredger named Harris that the law was not going to keep him from dredging the Cobb Island beds. Russel warned the dredger that "The law and my 45-70 rifle can do just that." The dredger was caught by Russel illegally night