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