Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures (1978)

Title: Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures
Original Title: Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures
Release Date: 1978-09-01
Status: Released
Rating: 5.3/10 (from 5 votes)
Language: EN
Genres: Drama
Production Companies: LWT, Merchant Ivory Productions
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.
Cast

Peggy Ashcroft
Lady Gee

Larry Pine
Clark Haven

Saeed Jaffrey
Sri Narain

Victor Banerjee
Georgie

Aparna Sen
Bonnie

Jane Booker
Lynn

Jins Shamsudin
Deaf Mute

Jenny Beavan
Governess

Aladdin Langa
Servant