YMMV / Piccadilly

• Best Known for the Fanservice: The most remembered detail about the film is Anna May Wong doing sexy dances in skimpy costumes.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Despite being second-billed, and Mabel and Wilmot technically being the protagonists, the film is regarded as an Anna May Wong starring role.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Mabel is jealous of Shosho upstaging her - which proves quite prophetic of critics saying Anna May Wong stole the show from Gilda Gray.
• One-Scene Wonder: The woman who gets reprimanded for dancing with a black man. After being mocked by the other patrons, she responds with a fantastic Shaming the Mob and storms out with her head held high. Modern fans lament that we can't hear exactly what she's saying to defend herself.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Charles Laughton is the man who complains about his dirty plate and results in Shosho being fired.
  • Ray Milland is one of the extras in the nightclub.
• Values Dissonance: The blatant exoticising of Shosho would be impossible to play seriously today.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: The cinematography is beautiful for 1929.