fiction.wikisort.org - Movie

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.

This article needs additional citations for verification. (April 2019)

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

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

---