The Lyons Mail

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The Lyons Mail
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Directed by Arthur Maude
Written by H. Fowler Mear
Based on The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade
Produced by Julius Hagen
Starring John Martin Harvey
Norah Baring
Ben Webster
Moore Marriott
Cinematography Sydney Blythe
Production
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Distributed by Woolf & Freedman Film Service
Release date
  • 12 October 1931 (1931-10-12)
Running time
76 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Lyons Mail is a 1931 British historical mystery adventure film directed by Arthur Maude and starring John Martin Harvey, Norah Baring, and Ben Webster. [1] It was based on the 1877 play The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade which in turn was based on his 1854 play The Courier of Lyons . [2] The film was also released under the alternative title Courrier de Lyon. It had previously been made into a 1916 silent film The Lyons Mail . The story is based on the Courrier de Lyon case. It was shot at the Twickenham Studios in London. [3] Filmed in 1930, it was to be leading actor John Martin-Harvey's only sound film.

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  1. ↑ BFI.org
  2. ↑ Haste, Steve (1997). Criminal Sentences: True Crime in Fiction and Drama. Cygnus Arts. ISBN   978-1-900541-25-1.
  3. ↑ Cottis, David (26 December 2024). How Stage Playwrights Saved the British Cinema, 1930-1956: The Well-Made Screenplay. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN   979-8-7651-0106-3.

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