Piccadilly Incident (UK-import)
A massive box-office hit, this romantic wartime drama is an emotional tour de force that marked the first screen pairing of Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding, who would become one of Britain's best-loved film couples throughout the later 1940s. Directed by Herbert Wilcox, Neagle's then husband, and featuring inventive dance sequences by renowned choreographer Wendy Toye, Piccadilly Incident is presented here in a brand-new digital transfer, in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Alan Pearson, a Naval Intelligence Captain, and WREN Diana Fraser 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...