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By the Sun's Rays

07/21/1914

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0hr 11min

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Western

,Action

STORY

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...

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Murdock MacQuarrie
  • Lon Chaney
  • Seymour Hastings
  • Agnes Vernon
  • Richard Rosson

    Director

  • Charles Giblyn

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Nestor Film Company

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • No Language

Cast

Murdock MacQuarrie

John Murdock, the Detective

Lon Chaney

Frank Lawler, the Clerk

Seymour Hastings

John Davis - Supt. of Mines

Agnes Vernon

Dora Davis - John's Daughter

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