The Lyons Mail (1916 film) explained

The Lyons Mail
Director:Fred Paul
Producer:Ideal Film Company
Screenplay:Benedict James
Starring:H.B. Irving
Nancy Price
Harry Welchman
James Lindsay
Country:United Kingdom
Language:Silent film
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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.

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