By the Sun's Rays
By the Sun's Rays

By the Sun's Rays

4.8

0 hr 11 min

1914-07-21

14

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...

Western

Action

Trailers

Characters

Murdock MacQuarrie

Murdock MacQuarrie

John Murdock, the Detective

Lon Chaney

Lon Chaney

Frank Lawler, the Clerk

Seymour Hastings

Seymour Hastings

John Davis - Supt. of Mines

Agnes Vernon

Agnes Vernon

Dora Davis - John's Daughter

Richard Rosson

Richard Rosson

The Bandit (as Dick Rosson)

Eddie Lyons

Eddie Lyons

Undetermined Role (unconfirmed / uncredited)

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