The Lyons Mail (1916 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 |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Languages | Silent film English intertitles |
The Lyons Mail is a 1916 British silent film directed by Fred Paul[1] and is based on the 1877 play The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade, a very popular stage work of the Victorian era.[2] A respectable French gentleman is mistaken for his doppelganger, a notorious highwaymen.[3]
It was made by the Ideal Film Company, one of the leading British silent film studios.[4] 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.
Only the first quarter of the film survives.[4]
Cast
[edit]- 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
References
[edit]- ^ Williams, Carolyn (4 October 2018). The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-60611-0.
- ^ Kabatchnik, Amnon (22 September 2017). Blood on the Stage, 1800 to 1900: Milestone Plays of Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-5381-0618-1.
- ^ "Untitled". The Bioscope. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
- ^ a b Usai, Paolo Cherchi (25 July 2019). The Griffith Project, Volume 10: Films Produced 1919-1946. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-83902-000-1.
External links
[edit]- The Lyons Mail at IMDb
- The Lyons Mail at BFI Film & TV Database
- The Lyons Mail at Silent Era
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