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Rent Piccadilly Incident (1946)

3.3 of 5 from 51 ratings
1h 39min
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Synopsis:
Alan Pearson (Michael Wilding), a Naval Intelligence Captain, and WREN Diana Fraser (Anna Neagle) meet by chance in Piccadilly during an air raid. They fall in love, and after a brief courtship, marry just hours before Diana is due to be sent to Singapore; hers is one of many hasty wartime romances. But their love story is cut short when Diana is reported missing, believed drowned, after the fall of Singapore. In time, Alan finds love again, and remarries. But fate is to bring about an impossible situation, which can only be resolved by considerable self-sacrifice...
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Directors:
Producers:
Herbert Wilcox
Writers:
Florence Tranter, Nicholas Phipps
Studio:
Network
Genres:
Action & Adventure, Classics, Drama, Romance
Collections:
British WWII Films: The Home Front and Europe, Drama Films & TV, Holidays Film Collection, inema Paradiso's 2023 Centenary Club: Part 2, Romantic Film Pairings for Valentine's Day
BBFC:
Release Date:
26/05/2014
Run Time:
99 minutes
Languages:
English Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono
Subtitles:
None
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
Colour:
B & W
Bonus:
  • Image Gallery
  • Original Pressbook PDF

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Wartime Fantasy (spoiler). - Piccadilly Incident review by Steve

Spoiler Alert
14/04/2023

Between 1946 and '51, Herbert Wilcox directed half a dozen films starring Anna Neagle (his wife) and Michael Wilding, which were huge hits with the British public. In the social revolution of the fifties and sixties these were disparaged by the next generation of film makers. In particular the attitude to class became outdated.

The first and best of these is Piccadilly Incident. The stars meet cute in the blackout and hastily get married before she is posted to Singapore. Only she gets torpedoed in transit and spends the rest of the war on a desert island with the navy. When she is rescued and returns home, her husband has has an American wife and a baby daughter.

It's a familiar tale which is normally played for laughs, but this is sentimental. These people are so bourgeois that when Neagle is injured in an air raid at the end, it feels like she dies rather than cause a scandal. Wilding has a batman who, when he is not serving tea, is dispatched to the roof on watch duty. His death barely merits a line of dialogue.

The past is a foreign country. Yet, the film evokes well the separation and loss which was the familiar ache of the war years. Interestingly, it conveys a feeling of nostalgia for the horror of the blitz, now war is over. And Anna Neagle gives a sincere performance much better than the material deserves. Despite the many absurdities, it's a quietly moving film.

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