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The Lyons Mail (1916 film)
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Wikipedia article
'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
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