Release Date: 1914-07-21
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...
Rating: 4.8 / 10
Murdock MacQuarrie
as John Murdock, the Detective
Lon Chaney
as Frank Lawler, the Clerk
Seymour Hastings
as John Davis - Supt. of Mines
Agnes Vernon
as Dora Davis - John's Daughter
Richard Rosson
as The Bandit (as Dick Rosson)
Charles Giblyn - Director
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