By the Sun's Rays
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11mins
Directed by
Charles Giblyn,
Tod Browning,
Starring
Murdock MacQuarrie,
Lon Chaney,
Seymour Hastings,
Agnes Vernon
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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...