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Courier of Lyons is a french film of genre Drama directed by Claude Autant-Lara with Pierre Blanchar
Courier of Lyons (1937)
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Add to a movie listL'Affaire du courrier de Lyon est un film français réalisé par Claude Autant-Lara et Maurice Lehmann, sorti en 1937.
Le film relate un fait divers réel survenu en 1796, l'Affaire du courrier de Lyon.
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En 1796, la malle-poste de Paris à Lyon, qui transporte une importante somme d'argent, est attaquée par un groupe de malfaiteurs. Ceux-ci volent l'argent et tuent les postillons. Des suspects sont arrêtés, dont le sosie de l'un des bandits...Actors
Pierre Blanchar
(Pierre-Joseph Lesurques)
Dita Parlo
(Mina Lesurques - The Wife of the Accused)
Sylvia Bataille
(Madeleine Brebant)
Pierre Alcover
(Valentin Durochat)
Andrex
(The lawyer of Lesurques)
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