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By the Sun’s Rays (1914) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1914 · 11 mins
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- Directed by
- Charles Giblyn
- Starring
- Richard Rosson, Murdock MacQuarrie, Lon Chaney, Eddie Lyons, Seymour Hastings, Agnes Vernon
The earliest surviving film giving Lon Chaney a major role, By the Sun’s Rays is a two‑reel western starring flamboyant Murdock MacQuarrie as a detective who probes a string of gold‑shipment robberies. He falls for the mine superintendent’s pretty daughter (Agnes Vernon), to the chagrin of the sullen mine clerk (Chaney), who also loves her.
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