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...

• Charles GiblynDirector

• Murdock MacQuarrieJohn Murdock, the Detective
• Lon ChaneyFrank Lawler, the Clerk
• Seymour HastingsJohn Davis - Supt. of Mines
• Agnes VernonDora Davis - John's Daughter
• Richard RossonThe Bandit (as Dick Rosson)
• Eddie LyonsUndetermined Role (unconfirmed / uncredited)