By the Sun’s Rays

Year: 1914

Runtime: 11 mins

Director: Charles Giblyn

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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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