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Piccadilly is a 1929 British silent and sound drama film directed by E.A. Dupont, written by Arnold Bennett and starring Gilda Gray, Anna May Wong, and Jameson Thomas. The film was shot on location in London, produced by British International Pictures.
May 20, 2021 · Anna May Wong sizzles in this seductive clip from E A Dupont's silent masterpiece - available on BFI Blu-ray from 21 June https://shop.bfi.org.uk/pre-order-pic... ...more.
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Jun 26, 2021 · Piccadilly (1929) is a silent movie based on the glamorous world of a London revue bar and the entangled relationships behind its inner workings with spurned love, rivalry and jealousy that results in murder.
Piccadilly, Dupont’s second English film, was BIP’s most expensive and ambitious production to date. The jazzy burst of urban nightlife that opens the movie has the flavor of Weimar-era strassefilme, or “street films,” in which the glitter and glamour of the modern city merged with the squalor and despair of urban poverty.
Sep 10, 2012 · Descending from the palatial dance-floor of a Piccadilly nightclub, we pass through the kitchen and the scullery to a world of roughhouse pubs and seamy Chinese emporia.
Special features: • Presented in High Definition, featuring Neil Brand’s jazz-influenced score • Prologue to Piccadilly (1929, 5 mins): sound prologue screened in US cinemas • Return to Piccadilly (2021, 17 mins): a newly recorded video essay on the film by the BFI’s silent film expert Bryony Dixon • Talk of the Town (2021, 53 mins ...
Piccadilly is a 1929 British silent and sound drama film directed by E.A. Dupont, written by Arnold Bennett and starring Gilda Gray, Anna May Wong, and Jameson Thomas. The film was shot on location in London, produced by British International Pictures.
