The Tragedy of Whispering Creek is a 1914 American silent short Western film directed by Allan Dwan and featuring Murdock MacQuarrie, Pauline Bush, and Lon Chaney.
[4] A print exists in the Deutsche Kinemathek film archive, making it Chaney's earliest surviving moving picture.
[6] A vile bully known as The Greaser (Lon Chaney) is terrorizing the young ladies in a mining town called Whispering Creek.
The stranger and the Greaser shoot it out, and wind up killing each other in the ensuing gunfight, saving Bill's and the girl's life in the process.
The Moving Picture World wrote "The story is very uncertain in development, but has an unusually pleasing setting throughout the entire production.