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...

The Great Train Robbery
1903
7.0/10

Boss Nigger
1975
6.6/10

The Badlanders
1958
6.2/10

Doc West
2009
6.1/10

Way Out West
1937
7.1/10

Surrounded
2023
6.1/10

Pale Rider
1985
7.2/10

Barbarosa
1982
5.9/10

Mackenna's Gold
1969
6.6/10

The Unholy Trinity
2025
6.3/10

North to Alaska
1960
6.5/10

The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
1967
6.6/10

The Magnificent Seven
2016
6.5/10

Wild Rovers
1971
6.1/10

Day of Reckoning
2025
6.4/10

Gunfight at Rio Bravo
2023
6.5/10

The Spoilers
1942
6.3/10

The Claim
2000
6.0/10

Jane Got a Gun
2015
5.8/10

Gunless
2010
6.4/10
Con Air
1997
6.8/10