The Lyons Mail (1916 film)
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Country United Kingdom | Director Fred Paul | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Language Silent film
English intertitles Release date December 1916 (1916-12) Based on The Courier of Lyons
by Charles Reade Writer Benedict James (scenario), Charles Reade (play) |
The Lyons Mail is a 1916 British silent film based on the 1854 play The Courier of Lyons 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.
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