Product Details

• Actors: Peggy Ashcroft, Larry Pine, Saeed Jaffrey, Victor Banerjee, Aparna Sen
• Directors: James Ivory
• Writers: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
• Producers: Ismail Merchant
• Format: Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Merchant Ivory
• DVD Release Date: June 22, 2004
• Run Time: 85 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00020X84S
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #176,116 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures - The Merchant Ivory Collection" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

This lighthearted romp through Royal India presents a world of Maharajas, palaces, imperiled art objects, and the foreign collectors who will stop at nothing to possess them. Peggy Ashcroft and Larry Pine star as two rapacious art collectors who come to the decaying Art Deco palace of a young Maharaja (Victor Banerjee) to examine a legendary collection of Indian miniature paintings. While vying with each other to get the pictures away from the royal couple—nicknamed Georgie and Bonnie as children by their Scottish governess—they must also divine the true motives of the Indian curator of the collection (Saeed Jaffrey), who—in league with the Maharaja's beautiful sister (Aparna Sen)—may be working against them. Amidst the backdrop of lavish tourist entertainments, Christmas parties, fireworks, and even an English ghost, a desperate game of palace intrigue will
determine the ultimate resting place of the priceless paintings.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent despite some flaws, September 10, 2011

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This review is from: Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures - The Merchant Ivory Collection (DVD)

I quite liked this one - being a big fan of Bollywood, and Merchant & Ivory, amongst other genres and auteurs I enjoy (Bergman, spaghetti Westerns, film noire, Bertolucci). These early films of Merchant and Ivory are in some ways superior to the later works, as they seem more human, with flaws, quirky, funnier. The cast, aside from Larry Pine, are superb. Saeed Jaffrey is one of my favorite actors of any place or time - always spot on, never hits a false note. Victor Banerjee as the playboy Georgie gives of the perfect combination of cultured and sophisticated ease, with more than a hint of a darker shadows, debauchery. Aparna Sen is the perfect Hindu rani - sophisticated and above it all, serene and gorgeous, with an immaculate public school accent. Dame Peggy is good, the actress who plays her travelling companion is miscast and bland, and Larry Pine - who cast him and why? While his look is good, he is sooooooooooo American naturalistic in his acting that he brings very little to the table.

You can tell it is made for TV - while the exterior shots are almost all very appealing (the scenery and light in Jodpur is fantastic) the interior shots look like they have only one light. The story is very amusing, and aside from two incredibly clunker attempts at symbolism (in the middle of the film and at the very end), engaging.

Not a major film, but very interesting, with the main attractions being the three Indian leads, the scenery, and a glimpse into what the lives of India's little ranis and rajas could be like.

1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Bit Older, January 30, 2010

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L. Haley "L Haley movie buff" (eastern NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures - The Merchant Ivory Collection (DVD)

I love Merchant Ivory movies so I thought this one would be interesting. However, it was an older film that I assumed and after a time it just became a bit boring.

2 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars jodhpur, May 3, 2009

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Thomas C. Broster (perth western australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures - The Merchant Ivory Collection (DVD)

Loved this film and made the journey to Jodhpur to see the palace. Well worth it as a lover of decco architecture.