Movielogr
By the Sun's Rays (1914)
Directed by Charles Giblyn
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…
Length 11 minutes
Actors
Murdock MacQuarrie | Lon Chaney | Seymour Hastings | Agnes Vernon | Richard Rosson | Eddie Lyons