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Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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Le courrier de Lyon
(The Courier of Lyons)
Also known as L’attaque de la malle-poste in France; The Orleans Coach in the USA : [The Lyons Mail]
(1911) France
B&W : Three reels
Directed by Albert Capellani
Cast: Mévisto, Andrée Pascal, Paul Capellani, Louis Ravet [Roussel; and Gasnier], Eugénie Nau, Georges Tréville [Nickolet], Maurice Luguet, Albert Dieudonné, Grégoire, Paul Calvin, Faivre
Compagnie Genérale des Établissements Pathé Frères Phonographes & Cinématographes production; distributed by Compagnie Genérale des Établissements Pathé Frères Phonographes & Cinématographes. / [?] From the play adaptation The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade of a play by Louis-Mathurin Moreau and Paul Siraudin? / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was released in the USA by Pathé Frères [American] through The General Film Company, Incorporated, on 2 June 1912. The play was subsequently filmed as The True Story of the Lyons Mail (1915).
Drama: Historical.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: (unknown) [France]; Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Guillotines
Listing updated: 5 January 2023.
References: Bardèche-History p. 47; Shipman-Cinema p. 46 : Website-IMDb.
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