By the Sun's Rays Poster

By the Sun's Rays

Not Rated Western Action

Starring: Murdock MacQuarrie, Lon Chaney, Seymour Hastings, Agnes Vernon, Richard Rosson

Writer: N/A

Release Date:
July 21, 1914
Ratings:
4.8 / 10
Director:
Charles Giblyn
Companies:
Nestor Film Company

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...