Product Information
When the dance routines of a nightclub scullery maid catch the eye of the club's owner, she becomes the toast of London.Product Identifiers
EAN5035673005798
eBay Product ID (ePID)30742631
Product Key Features
ActorAnna May Wong, Gilda Gray, Jameson Thomas, Hannah Jones, Charles Laughton
Film/TV TitlePiccadilly (Silent)
DirectorE.A. Dupont
Release Year2004
FeaturesInterview With Composer And Musician Neil Brand\Prologue From The Sound Version Of The Film\Directors Biography
GenreDrama, General
Additional Product Features
CertificatePG
Number of Discs1
Additional InformationA British silent murder mystery about Shosho (Anna May Wong, SHANGHAI EXPRESS), scullery maid turned dancer from China, who finds herself caught up in a crooked liaison between a suave nightclub owner Valentine and an obsessive fellow dancer Mabel (Gilda Gray). Features a cameo by Charles Laughton in his feature debut. This is E.A. Dupont's original silent, with a commissioned score by Neil Brand, and amber and blue tinting as appeared in an original 1929 print. This stylish and evocative Jazz Age melodrama, was actually filmed in London's Piccadilly at the Cafe de Paris and seedy Limehouse in the East End.
CinematographerWerner Brandes
Movie/TV TitlePiccadilly (Silent)