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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. [2] It was written by Nicholas Phipps based on a story by Florence Tranter.
Caravan was a notable box office attraction at British cinemas in 1946, [37] [39] becoming the sixth most successful film after The Wicked Lady, The Bells of St Marys, Piccadilly Incident, The Captive Heart and Road to Utopia. [44] It was shortlisted for the "Best British Film" for 1946 at the 1947 Daily Mail National Film Awards. [40]
Thus was born what film critic Godfrey Winn called "the greatest team in British films". [8] The story – of a wife, presumed dead, returning to her (remarried) husband – bears a resemblance to the Irene Dunne–Cary Grant comedy My Favorite Wife. Piccadilly Incident was chosen as Picturegoer's Best Film of 1947. Despite the fact that Neagle ...
Piccadilly Incident was the second most popular film at the British box office in 1946. After co-starring with Sally Gray in Carnival (1946), Wilding was reunited with Neagle and Wilcox in The Courtneys of Curzon Street (1947), the biggest hit at the 1947 British box office and one of the most-seen British films of all time.
It was the 24th most popular film at the British box office in 1946 after The Wicked Lady, The Bells of St Marys, Piccadilly Incident, The Captive Heart, Road to Utopia, Caravan, Anchors Away, The Corn is Green, Gilda, The House on 92nd Street, The Overlanders, Appointment with Crime, The Bandit of Sherwood Forest, Kitty, Spellbound, Scarlet Street, Men of Two Worlds, Courage of Lassie ...
According to trade papers, the film was a "notable box office attraction" at British cinemas. [5] According to Kinematograph Weekly the 'biggest winner' at the box office in 1946 Britain was The Wicked Lady, with "runners up" being The Bells of St Marys, Piccadilly Incident, The Road to Utopia, Tomorrow is Forever, Brief Encounter, Wonder Man, Anchors Away, Kitty, The Captive Heart, The Corn ...
The first movie Lockwood-Wilcox film, Trent's Last Case (1952) was a solid success, helped by a cast including Wilding and Orson Welles. However Laughing Anne (1953), co-starring Forrest Tucker and Wendell Corey , and Trouble in the Glen (1954), with Welles, did poorly and he made no further films with Lockwood or Republic.
July 4, 1946 The Green Years: July 11, 1946 Easy to Wed: Remake of Libeled Lady (1936) July 18, 1946 Boys' Ranch: August 4, 1946 Piccadilly Incident: US distribution only; produced in the UK by Herbert Wilcox Productions: August 15, 1946 Holiday in Mexico: August 22, 1946 Faithful in My Fashion: September 26, 1946 Three Wise Fools: October 3 ...