By the Sun's Rays (movie)

By the Sun's Rays (movie)

  • User score: 4.8
  • Production country: United States of America
  • Producer: Charles Giblyn
  • Production companies: Nestor Film Company
  • Genre: Western
  • Release date: 7/21/1914
  • Run time: 11 min.

Movie description

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

Murdock MacQuarrie

Role(s): John Murdock, the Detective

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Lon Chaney

Lon Chaney

Role(s): Frank Lawler, the Clerk

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Seymour Hastings

Seymour Hastings

Role(s): John Davis - Supt. of Mines

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Agnes Vernon

Agnes Vernon

Role(s): Dora Davis - John's Daughter

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Richard Rosson

Richard Rosson

Role(s): The Bandit (as Dick Rosson)

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