The Lyons Mail is a 1916 British silent film directed by Fred Paul and is 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.
Only the first quarter of the film survives.
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
References
External links
The Lyons Mail at BFI Film & TV Database The Lyons Mail at Silent Era