Piccadilly Incident

Piccadilly Incident

1946 · 100 min · ★ 6.7 · War, Drama

A newly married WREN, presumed drowned when her ship is torpedoed, spends three years on a tropical island before returning to England to find her husband remarried with a baby son.

Directed by Herbert Wilcox · Written by Florence Tranter

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