Summary: 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... (All Movie Guide)

Genres: Drama, Western, Short

Country: USA

Directed By: Tod Browning

Starring: Lon Chaney, Murdock MacQuarrie, Seymour Hastings, Agnes Vernon, Richard Rosson, Eddie Lyons

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