By the Sun's Rays

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...

Country:

United States of America

Genre:

Western

Duration:

11 minutes

Year:

1914

Director:

Charles Giblyn

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Company:

Nestor Film Company

Cast:

John Murdock, the Detective

Frank Lawler, the Clerk

John Davis - Supt. of Mines

Dora Davis - John's Daughter

The Bandit (as Dick Rosson)

Crew:

Director