By the Sun's Rays

By the Sun's Rays

11 mins | Western | July 21, 1914

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...

By the Sun's Rays

11 mins | Western | July 21, 1914

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...
IMDb rating 5.4
Producers Nestor Film Company
Original title By the Sun's Rays
Directors Charles Giblyn
Writers

Cast

Murdock MacQuarrie

as John Murdock, the Detective

Lon Chaney

as Frank Lawler, the Clerk

Seymour Hastings

as John Davis - Supt. of Mines

Agnes Vernon

as Dora Davis - John's Daughter

Richard Rosson

as The Bandit (as Dick Rosson)