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...
By the Sun's Rays has generally received mixed reviews.
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By the Sun's Rays was released in 1914 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 2 reviews, giving By the Sun's Rays (1914) an average rating of 50%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 60%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 0%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed By the Sun's Rays a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 50%, By the Sun's Rays is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1914, which stands at 49%.
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