By the Sun's Rays (1914)

Name: By the Sun's Rays
Genre: Western, Action
Released: 1914-07-21
Rating: 4.8
Cast: Murdock MacQuarrie, Lon Chaney, Seymour Hastings, Agnes Vernon, Richard Rosson

Western
Action

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...

Rating: 4.8 / 10 (14 votes)
Release date: July 21, 1914
Runtime: 11m
Language: English
Director: Charles Giblyn
Status: Released