By the Sun's Rays
.JPG)
Starring:
Murdock MacQuarrie, Lon Chaney
Directed: Charles Giblyn
Producer: Tod Browning
Producer: Tod Browning
Nestor Film Company, Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Distributed:
Universal Pictures
Running
time: 11 minutes
Country: United States
Plot
Frank Lawler, a clerk for a mining company, colludes with a
bandit gang about the timing of gold shipments with a mirror signal system and
has designs on Doris Davis, the daughter of the local branch manager. The
company's main office dispatches their top detective John Murdock, who goes
undercover to expose the scheme and rescue the Doris
from the unwanted advances of the dastardly Lawler.
(This is the earliest known surviving film to feature Lon
Chaney. He had appeared in thirty other films prior to this one however those films
are now considered to be lost with no known prints in existence.)
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