{"id":16026,"date":"2023-11-26T19:00:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T00:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16026"},"modified":"2023-11-26T15:42:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:42:18","slug":"piccadilly-1929-ea-dupont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16026","title":{"rendered":"Piccadilly (1929, EA Dupont)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our second Dupont movie after <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11468\">Variety<\/a><\/em>.  Rather than Anvil\/Alloy we went with the music on the blu-ray, which was fine.  After a talkie introduction scene, simply terrible, awkwardly tacked on (starring John Longden who I just saw in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15983\">Quatermass 2<\/a><\/em>) we get a proper silent film with glamorous costumes and camera moves.  The setup is that Valentine (Claudette&#8217;s fianc\u00e9 in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/10774\">It Happened One Night<\/a><\/em>) runs a successful club with star dancers Victor (Hitchcock&#8217;s <em>Blackmail<\/em>) and Mabel (star of <em>The Devil Dancer<\/em> two years earlier), then after a falling out, the dancers are replaced with kitchen worker Anna May Wong, a vast improvement.  Tensions build in the second half &#8211; Mabel is jealous that Valentine is sweet on Anna, and maybe murders her, but in the ensuing court drama we learn that Anna&#8217;s boy Jim (not her brother, as she&#8217;s told people) did the crime.  Smooth little drama, mostly noteworthy for its Anna May content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our second Dupont movie after Variety. Rather than Anvil\/Alloy we went with the music on the blu-ray, which was fine. After a talkie introduction scene, simply terrible, awkwardly tacked on (starring John Longden who I just saw in Quatermass 2) we get a proper silent film with glamorous costumes and camera moves. The setup is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[526,1493,236,2157,64],"class_list":["post-16026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1920s","tag-anna-may-wong","tag-dance","tag-ea-dupont","tag-silent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16067,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16026\/revisions\/16067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}