By the Sun's Rays

By the Sun's Rays — Plot

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...

• Release date
• July 21, 1914
• Runtime
• 11 min
• Genres
• Western, Action
• Director
• Charles Giblyn

By the Sun's Rays — Cast

Murdock MacQuarrie John Murdock, the Detective Lon Chaney Frank Lawler, the Clerk

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Seymour Hastings John Davis - Supt. of Mines Agnes Vernon Dora Davis - John's Daughter Richard Rosson The Bandit (as Dick Rosson) Eddie Lyons Undetermined Role (unconfirmed / uncredited)