The Lyons Mail (1916 film)
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The Lyons Mail is a 1916 British silent film
based on the play 'The Courier of Lyons' from the 1850s by Charles Reade
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Silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...
based on the play 'The Courier of Lyons' from the 1850s by Charles Reade
Charles Reade
Charles Reade was an English novelist and dramatist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth.-Life:Charles Reade was born at Ipsden, Oxfordshire to John Reade and Anne Marie Scott-Waring; William Winwood Reade the influential historian , was his nephew. He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford,...
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Cast
- Nancy PriceNancy PriceNancy Price, CBE , was an English actress on stage and screen, authoress and theatre director. Her acting career began in a repertory theatre company before progressing to the London stage, silent films, talkies and finally television. In addition to appearing on stage she became involved in...
- Harry Welchman
- James Lindsay
- Tom Reynolds
- H.B. IrvingHarry Brodribb IrvingHarry Brodribb Irving , was a British stage actor and actor-manager; the eldest son of Sir Henry Irving and his wife Florence , and father of designer Laurence Irving and actress Elizabeth Irving....
- Windham Guise
- Alfred Brydone
External links
- The Lyons Mail at BFI Film & TV Database
- The Lyons Mail at Silent Era