By the Sun's Rays
5.4
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...
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Murdock MacQuarrie
John Murdock, the Detective
Known for
Modern Times
Lon Chaney
Frank Lawler, the Clerk
Known for
The Phantom of the Opera
The Unknown
Seymour Hastings
John Davis - Supt. of Mines
Also in
Idle Wives
The Secret Garden
Agnes Vernon
Dora Davis - John's Daughter
Also in
Silks and Saddles
The Man from Kangaroo
Richard Rosson
The Bandit (as Dick Rosson)
Also in
The Patchwork Girl of Oz
How Fatty Made Good
Eddie Lyons
Undetermined Role (unconfirmed / uncredited)
Also in
Pruning the Movies
Some Shimmiers
Charles Giblyn Director
United States release July 21, 1914 · Produced in United States
Production
Nestor Film Company
Production
United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United States · July 21, 1914
Theatrical
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