poster By the Sun's Rays
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By the Sun's Rays

Synopsis

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...

Western, Action

All ratings

Details

Title:
By the Sun's Rays

Latest releases:
July 21, 1914

Decade:
Years 1910

Country of origin:
United States of America

Duration
11mn

Genres
Western, Action

Actors
Murdock MacQuarrie, Lon Chaney, Seymour Hastings, Agnes Vernon

Source:
Public Domain via Wikipedia (Internet Archive)
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