Piccadilly is a swift, old-fashioned murder mystery involving dancers, restaurateurs, Chinese scullery maids and the like, with some clever twists enhanced by Dupont's very modern turns. The cast includes, on the male side, Charles Laughton and Cyril Ritchard; and on the female side, Anna May Wong, in what is considered to be her finest screen role, and Gilda Gray, a shimmy-dancer-turned-actress, for whom (according to the New York Times in 1929) the screenplay was written. Photography by Verner Brandes and settings by Alfred Junge complete the picture, which the Times indicates was the film to break the trend of “England and America...deploring each other's motion pictures.... The National Board of Review chose to call (Piccadilly) ‘the first serious contender of our American product to reach these shores from English studios.'” (JB)