By the Sun's Rays
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1914 · 11 min · Western · Action · TMDB 4.8/10
Overview
The earliest surviving film featuring Lon Chaney in a major role, By the Sun's Ray's was but one of several 2-reel westerns starring the florid Murdock MacQuarrie. MacQuarrie plays a detective investigating a series of gold shipment robberies. Along the way, he falls for a mine superintendent's pretty daughter (Agnes Vernon), much to the dismay of a sullen mine office clerk (Chaney), who is also smitten with the girl...
Directed by Charles Giblyn
Cast
- Murdock MacQuarrie — John Murdock, the Detective
- Lon Chaney — Frank Lawler, the Clerk
- Seymour Hastings — John Davis - Supt. of Mines
- Agnes Vernon — Dora Davis - John's Daughter
- Richard Rosson — The Bandit (as Dick Rosson)