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1916 British film

The Lyons Mail
Directed by	Fred Paul
Screenplay by	Benedict James
Based on	The Courier of Lyons by Charles Reade
Produced by	Ideal Film Company
Starring	H.B. Irving Nancy Price Harry Welchman James Lindsay
Release date	December 1916 (1916-12)
Country	United Kingdom
Languages	Silent film English intertitles

The Lyons Mail is a 1916 British silent film based on the 1877 play The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade, a very popular stage work of the Victorian era. A respectable French gentleman is mistaken for his doppelganger, a notorious highwaymen.

It was made by the Ideal Film Company, one of the leading British silent film studios. It should not be confused with a later sound version The Lyons Mail released in 1931 by Twickenham Studios. It was released in the United States in 1919.

Cast

H.B. Irving as Lesurques / Dubosc
Nancy Price as Janette
Harry Welchman as Andre
James Lindsay as Courriot
Tom Reynolds as Founiard
Windham Guise as Choppard
Nelson J. Ramsay as Durochat
Violet Campbell as Julie
Alfred Brydone as Jerome Lesurques
Charles Vane
Teddy Arundell

External links

The Lyons Mail at IMDb
The Lyons Mail at BFI Film & TV Database
The Lyons Mail at Silent Era

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