Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures

1978 film by James Ivory

Peggy Ashcroft
Larry Pine
Saeed Jaffrey
Victor Banerjee
Aparna Sen

CinematographyWalter LassallyEdited by

Melvyn Bragg
Humphrey Dixon

Music byVic FlickDistributed by

Contemporary Films Ltd. (1979 UK, theatrical)
Criterion Collection (DVD)

Release date

1978 (1978) (TV premiere)

Running time

85 minutesLanguageEnglish

Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures is a 1978 television film by Merchant Ivory Productions (written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant) set in India, starring UK stage actress Dame Peggy Ashcroft. It later received a limited theatrical release in 1979.

Plot synopsis

A group of thieves descend upon an Indian palace to steal a collection of valuable paintings. The group includes Lady Gee (Peggy Ashcroft), a museum curator; the Maharaja (Victor Banerjee), his sister Bonnie (Aparna Sen) who wants to sell the paintings to Sotheby's, and a few others.

External links

Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures at IMDb
Merchant Ivory overview

Merchant Ivory Productions

The Householder (1963)
Shakespeare Wallah (1965)
The Guru (1969)
The Night of Counting the Years (1969)
Bombay Talkie (1970)
Savages (1972)
The Wild Party (1975)
Autobiography of a Princess (1975)
Roseland (1977)
Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures (1978)
The Five Forty-Eight (1978)
The Europeans (1979)
Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980)
Quartet (1981)
The Courtesans of Bombay (1983)
Heat and Dust (1983)
The Bostonians (1984)
A Room with a View (1985)
Maurice (1987)
The Deceivers (1988)
The Perfect Murder (1988)
Slaves of New York (1989)
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990)
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991)
Howards End (1992)
The Remains of the Day (1993)
In Custody (1994)
Feast of July (1995)
Jefferson in Paris (1995)
The Proprietor (1996)
Surviving Picasso (1996)
Side Streets (1998)
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)
Cotton Mary (1999)
The Golden Bowl (2000)
The Mystic Masseur (2001)
Le Divorce (2003)
Heights (2005)
The White Countess (2005)
Before the Rains (2008)
The City of Your Final Destination (2009)

v t e Films directed by James Ivory
The Householder (1963) The Delhi Way (1964) Shakespeare Wallah (1965) The Guru (1969) Bombay Talkie (1970) Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization (1972) Savages (1972) Autobiography of a Princess (1975) The Wild Party (1975) Roseland (1977) Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures (1978) The Five Forty-Eight (1978) The Europeans (1979) Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980) Quartet (1981) Heat and Dust (1983) The Bostonians (1984) A Room with a View (1985) Maurice (1987) Slaves of New York (1989) Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990) Howards End (1992) The Remains of the Day (1993) Jefferson in Paris (1995) Lumière and Company (1995) Surviving Picasso (1996) A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998) The Golden Bowl (2000) Le Divorce (2003) The White Countess (2005) The City of Your Final Destination (2009)

Films directed by James Ivory