By the Sun's Rays
1914, English. Directed by Charles Giblyn.
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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- 0h 11m
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- English
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- 21 July 1914
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Who directed By the Sun's Rays?
By the Sun's Rays (1914) was directed by Charles Giblyn and stars Murdock MacQuarrie, Lon Chaney, Seymour Hastings.