By the Sun's Rays (1914)

overview : 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...

Release Date : Jul 21, 1914

Runtime : 11m

Genre : Western  

Companies : Nestor Film Company

Countries : United States of America

Keywords : undercover, gold mine, bandit, silent film, outlaw gang, short film