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Verenigd Koninkrijk
Drama
92 minuten / 109 minuten (gerestaureerde versie)

geregisseerd door Ewald André Dupont
met Gilda Gray, Charles Laughton en Anna May Wong

Film over een nachtclub op Piccadilly en de intriges die zich daar voordoen als een Chinees meisje wordt vermoord. Zij was een meisje dat afwaste en dat uiteindelijk uitgroeide tot de ster van de club.

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Studio: BFI Video

DVD Release Date: June 28, 2004


Director: Ewald Andre Dupont


Description
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One of the pinnacles of British silent cinema, Piccadilly is a sumptuous showbiz melodrama seething with sexual and racial tension. The Chinese-American screen goddess Anna May Wong stars as Shosho, a scullery maid in a fashionable London nightclub whose sensuous tabletop dance catches the eye of suave club owner Valentine Wilmot. She rises to become the toast of London and the object of his erotic obsession - to the bitter jealousy of Mabel, his former lover and star dancer (played by Ziegfeld Follies star Gilda Gray).

Piccadilly was a star vehicle for Anna May Wong, the first Asian-American star and one of the first non-white actresses to gain international celebrity. Best known for her role as Marlene Dietrich's sultry sidekick in Shanghai Express, Wong's career was stymied by racial stereotyping. Until recently all but forgotten, she now seems poised for rediscovery.


Format: PAL

DVD Size: 7.46 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (main feature): 109 minutes

Type: Black and White (tinted)

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

Sound (main feature): silent (score in DD2.0)

Subtitles: English intertitles



DISC FEATURES:

# Neil Brand on composing for Piccadilly (19:49).
# Prologue from the sound version of the film (5:14).
# E A Dupont Biography (text screens).
# Anna May Wong Biography.



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