By the Sun's Rays

Overview

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

21 July 1914

11 minutes

Director

Main Cast

John Murdock, the Detective
Frank Lawler, the Clerk
John Davis - Supt. of Mines
Dora Davis - John's Daughter
The Bandit (as Dick Rosson)
Undetermined Role (unconfirmed / uncredited)