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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.

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

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