The Lyons Mail (1916 film)

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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)
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguagesSilent 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]

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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

References

  1. ↑ Williams, Carolyn (4 October 2018). The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-1-108-60611-0.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ "Untitled". The Bioscope. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  4. 1 2 Usai, Paolo Cherchi (25 July 2019). The Griffith Project, Volume 10: Films Produced 1919-1946. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN   978-1-83902-000-1.


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