Piccadilly Incident
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| Directed by | Herbert Wilcox |
| Produced by | Herbert Wilcox |
| Written by | Nicholas Phipps |
| Based on | an original story by Florence Tranter |
| Starring |
Anna Neagle Michael Wilding |
| Music by | Anthony Collins |
| Cinematography | Max Greene |
| Edited by | Flora Newton |
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| Distributed by | Pathé Pictures Ltd (UK) |
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Release date
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30 September 1946 (UK) |
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Running time
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103 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Box office | £258,057 (UK) |
Piccadilly Incident is a 1946 British drama film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Coral Browne, Edward Rigby and Leslie Dwyer. Wilcox teamed his wife Anna Neagle with Michael Wilding for the first time, establishing them as top box-office stars in five more films, ending with The Lady with a Lamp in 1951. Wilding was third choice for leading man after Rex Harrison and John Mills.
A married woman is believed dead in a shipwreck, but returns home with the Second World War at its height to find her husband remarried.
Piccadilly Incident was the second most popular film at the British box office in 1946, after The Wicked Lady.
It was voted the best British film of 1946 at Britain's National Film Awards. Neagle's performance meant she was voted Best Actress of the year by the readers of Picturegoer magazine.
Though The New York Times thought the film demonstrated "the British are quite as capable as the Americans of unconvincing direction, ill-considered writing and tedious acting," critic Godfrey Winn wrote "In Piccadilly Incident is born the greatest team in British Films";Leonard Maltin wrote "good British cast gives life to oft-filmed plot";Allmovie called the film "a weeper deluxe"; and the Radio Times concluded that the film "effectively opens the tear ducts."
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