Piccadilly Third Stop

Piccadilly Third Stop is a 1960 British thriller film directed by Wolf Rilla and starring Terence Morgan, Yoko Tani and John Crawford.[1] The screenplay concerns a wealthy playboy who hires a gang of criminals to help him steal £100,000.

Piccadilly Third Stop
Original British quad poster by Nicola Simbari
Directed byWolf Rilla
Written byLeigh Vance
Produced byNorman Williams
Sydney Box
StarringTerence Morgan
Yoko Tani
John Crawford
Mai Zetterling
CinematographyErnest Steward
Edited byBernard Gribble
Music byPhilip Green
Production
companies
Ethiro-Alliance
Sydney Box Associates
Distributed byJ. Arthur Rank Film Distributors (UK)
Release date
6 September 1960 (London) (UK)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

It was shot at Pinewood Studios and on location around London, including numerous locations around Belgravia. Holborn tube station filled in as the fictional "Belgravia station" on the Piccadilly line. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ernest Archer.

Plot

Crook Dominic Colpoys-Owen (Terence Morgan) has his eye on the loot inside an embassy in London after an ambassador's daughter, Seraphina (Yoko Tani), unwittingly reveals that her father, away on business, has left big money behind in the safe. Colpoys-Owen works his smooth-talking charm on the innocent girl, who becomes so infatuated that she agrees to help his gang with its plan. This involves a robbery from the embassy, which is in Knightsbridge, via the London Underground.[2]

Trivia

Whilst Terence Morgan's character (Dominic) is standing in the tube station eyeing the station staff, he is positioned next to some film posters that are daubed onto the station's walls. At least one of the posters next to him is from an actual film that Terence Morgan had starred in earlier in the year, The Shakedown.

Cast

Recent assessments

Allmovie calls the film a "fast-paced, standard crime story".[3] The Radio Times calls it a "plodding low-budget thriller".[4]

References
  1. "Piccadilly Third Stop". BFI. Archived from the original on 5 August 2012.
  2. Piccadilly Third Stop, retrieved 25 April 2022
  3. "Piccadilly Third Stop (1960) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast - AllMovie". AllMovie.
  4. David Parkinson. "Piccadilly Third Stop". RadioTimes.


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