The Fast Mail

The Fast Mail
The Fast Mail
	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.
Directed by	Bernard J. Durning
Written by	Jacques Jaccard; Agnes Parsons
Based on	play, The Fast Mail, by Lincoln J. Carter
Produced by	William Fox
Starring	Buck Jones; Eileen Percy
Cinematography	George Schneiderman; Don Short
Distributed by	Fox Film Corporation
Release date	August 20, 1922;
Running time	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by the Fox Film Corporation.^[1] It was adapted for the screen by Agnes Parsons and Jacques Jaccard from a previously unpublished play of the same name by Lincoln J. Carter.^[2]

Plot

The Fast Mail is currently presumed lost.^[3] In February of 2021, the film was cited by the National Film Preservation Board on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list.^[4]

↑ Progressive Silent Film List The Fast Mail at silentera.com
↑ "AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The Fast Mail". afi.com. Retrieved April 19, 2026.
↑ "The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: The Fast Mail". memory.loc.gov. Archived from the original on March 21, 2023. Retrieved April 19, 2026. Cite error: Unknown parameter "loc" in <ref> tag; supported parameters are dir, follow, group, name (see the help page).
↑ "7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films (1912-29)" (PDF). National Film Preservation Board. Retrieved April 19, 2026.

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