The Lyons Mail (1916 film)

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