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By the Sun's Rays

By the Sun's Rays

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...

Cast for By the Sun's Rays...

Murdock MacQuarrie
Murdock MacQuarrie
John Murdock, the Detective
Lon Chaney
Lon Chaney
Frank Lawler, the Clerk
Seymour Hastings
Seymour Hastings
John Davis - Supt. of Mines
Agnes Vernon
Agnes Vernon
Dora Davis - John's Daughter
Richard Rosson
Richard Rosson
The Bandit (as Dick Rosson)
Eddie Lyons
Eddie Lyons
Undetermined Role (unconfirmed / uncredited)
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