By the Sun's Rays

By the Sun's Rays

48% | Jul 21, 1914 | Western, Action

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...

Featured Cast

Charles Giblyn
Director
Tod Browning
Director

Cast

John Murdock, the Detective
Murdock MacQuarrie
John Murdock, the Detective
Frank Lawler, the Clerk
Lon Chaney
Frank Lawler, the Clerk
John Davis - Supt. of Mines
Seymour Hastings
John Davis - Supt. of Mines
Dora Davis - John's Daughter
Agnes Vernon
Dora Davis - John's Daughter
The Bandit (as Dick Rosson)
Richard Rosson
The Bandit (as Dick Rosson)

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