The Fast Mail

{{short description|1922 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = The Fast Mail | image = File:Fast Mail poster.jpg | caption = Fox poster for the film depicting fastest in entertainment and technology speed being emblematic of the mail service: Lt. ''James London'', fastest airplane speed. ''Audacious'' fastest horse. ''Empire State Express'' fastest passenger train. Tommy Milton record holding race car driver. Norman Taber fastest runner. RMS Mauretania fastest Atlantic crossing. | director = Bernard J. Durning | producer = William Fox | writer = Jacques Jaccard<br>Agnes Parsons | based_on = play, ''The Fast Mail'', by Lincoln J. Carter | starring = Buck Jones<br>Eileen Percy | cinematography = George Schneiderman<br>Don Short | editing = | distributor = Fox Film Corporation | released = {{Film date|1922|08|20}} | runtime = 6 reels | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) }} '''''The Fast Mail''''' is a 1922 American silent melodrama film directed by Bernard J. Durning and starring Buck Jones (credited as Charles Jones) and Eileen Percy. It was produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation.<ref>[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/F/FastMail1922.html Progressive Silent Film List ''The Fast Mail''] at silentera.com</ref> It was adapted for the screen by Agnes Parsons and Jacques Jaccard from a previously unpublished play of the same name by Lincoln J. Carter.<ref name="afi">{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/8959-THE-FASTMAIL |title=AFI Catalog of Feature Films: ''The Fast Mail'' |work=afi.com |access-date=April 19, 2026}}</ref>

==Plot== {{no plot|date=March 2024}}

==Cast== *Buck Jones as Stanley Carson *Eileen Percy as Virginia Martin *James "Jim" Mason as Lee Mason *William Steele as Pierre La Fitte *Adolphe Menjou as Cal Baldwin *Harry Dunkinson as Harry Joyce

==Preservation== ''The Fast Mail'' is currently presumed lost.<ref name=''LOC''>{{Cite web |date= |others= |title=The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: ''The Fast Mail'' |url=http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.5150/default.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321060522/http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.5150/default.html |archive-date=2023-03-21 |access-date=2026-04-19 |website=memory.loc.gov}}</ref> In February of 2021, the film was cited by the National Film Preservation Board on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list.<ref name="Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films">{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-film-preservation-board/documents/SFF-LostFilmsList020421.pdf |title=7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films (1912-29) |publisher=National Film Preservation Board |access-date=April 19, 2026}}</ref>

==See also== *1937 Fox vault fire *List of lost films

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013120/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 The Fast Mail at IMDb.com] *[http://www.impawards.com/1922/fast_mail_xlg.html lobby poster]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fast Mail, The}} Category:1922 films Category:American silent feature films Category:Fox Film films Category:1922 drama films Category:Lost American silent drama films Category:American black-and-white films Category:1920s melodrama films Category:1922 lost films Category:Films directed by Bernard Durning Category:1922 American films