Staying On

Starring:Trevor Howard, Celia Johnson, Saeed Jaffrey, Pearl Padamsee, Fida Bai, Zia Mohyeddin, Ajit Saldanha, Habib Tanvir, Raj Bharti, Sushma Seth, Corina, Rinoo Chhoi, Dinoo Kotwal, Dwarka Prashad, Surehka Sikri, Shivendra Sinha, Kiran Narker, Phiroza Singh, Vijay Sheikhupura Singh, Malvika Singh
Director: Silvio Narizzano
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Product Type: DVD

Description

Paul Scott's STAYING ON This delightful drama, based on the award-winning novel by Paul Scott (The Jewel in the Crown), reunites the magnificent Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson for the first time since their appearance in the classic 1947 romance, "Brief Encounter." Retired Indian Army colonel Tusker Smalley and his wife Lucy made the decision to stay on in India after the British withdrew in 1947. While most of their friends returned home, Tusker decided to continue in military service. Now retired, he and Lucy are the only remaining British residents in the once-busy hill station of Pankot. Residing peacefully in a bungalow annex of the run-down Smith's Hotel, aided only by their long-suffering servant Ibrahim, their peace is about to be disturbed by the hotel owner, Mrs. Bhoolabhoy, whose plans for the hotel - and their bungalow - will permanently change one corner of India that had remained forever England. Stunningly filmed at the hill station of Simla at the foot of the Himalayas, a once-popular retreat for the British in India, STAYING ON is a memorable dramatization of this acclaimed novel, which perfectly captures a place, a time, and two timeless performances from Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson.

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Tedious and deathly slow.......2007-01-10

Having never seen The Jewel in the Crown, I cannot compare this production to that one. I will say that we watch a lot and buy a lot of British dramas in our house. I bought this one, watched, it and sold it on Amazon Marketplace. It was not a keeper for us. It was barely watchable, and about as life-affirming as malaria.

Other reviewers have commented on the acting of the leads. I would agree, but that only begs the question of what they could have done with a better script. This one was simultaneously slow and superficial. How'd they pull that off?

great acting-sad story.......2005-09-24

if you want a movie that ends happy and positive, this isn't it. but if you want a real story, with great acting, and super cinematography, in a very lovely setting... here it is. both main characters are well portrayed, and the secondary acting is well done too. our british couple (mostly at his insistence) are staying on in India after most of their friends and his military companions have gone home to England. He is content to swager about and recall the good ole days when England ruled in this far away land. She is stuck as the dutiful wife, although she points out, "what am i to do when you are gone?" she feels very stranded. They are renting their house from and Indian landlady who hate him, and is enjoying the reversal of role. Of having him somewhat at her mercy, which she constantly points out to her mouse of a husband. (who really seems to like the old duffer.) We know that Trevor is not long for this world, but his ending is still sad and somewhat shocking. You will have to see this movie to see what happens. This is from a Paul Scott story so it ties in a wee bit with the Jewel in the Crown story, which is a must view in its own right.

Excellent (sort of) sequel to Jewel in the Crown.......2004-11-30

Staying On, published 1977, is a quasi sequel to Paul Scott's (1920-78) Raj Quartet (1966-75), often called "Jewel in the Crown," although this strictly speaking is the title of the first Raj-Quartet novel. The time is 1972, 25 years after "Jewel" and India gaining its independence from Britain. Unlike "Jewel" where the British dominate most scenes, in Staying On there are only two Brits, the Smalleys, an elderly couple whose touching relationship is brilliantly played by Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson. All the other characters are Indian.
Although this is a sequel to "Jewel," fans of the latter may be disappointed that there is no tidying up of "Jewel" or updating of its characters. In fact, only one "Jewel" character is mentioned--Mabel Layton--and only in passing. The real character continuity, of course, is India and its people. Besides the story of the couple's relationship and the lovely scenery of Simla in the Indian Hill country, viewers will be rewarded by some scenes showing the poignant reversal of events for the British--for instance, "Jewel" has church scenes where Indians are absent (or nearly so) whereas Staying On has a church scene where the parish and minister are Indian and the only non-Indians present are the Smalleys. Another connection between Staying On and "Jewel," completed in, respectively, 1979 and 1984 by Granada, is that Staying On was filmed first as a test run for the more complicated, 14-part "Jewel."

Excellent Sequel to Jewel in the Crown........2003-04-25

This is an excellent rendering of Paul Scott's book Staying on, which is in itself a sequel to the Jewel in the Crown Quartet also writen by Paul Scott and also made into a TV Drama by Granada the same British compny that made the Jewel in the Crown sereis.
Staying on is a double success, it is an excellent rendering inhnto film of the book itself and in acting and dialogue it does not fall below the excellent TV series the Jewel in the Crown.
The story is set in post independent India, COL Tusker Smalley of the British Indian Army decides to stay on after India gains independence. He stays on as COL of his regiment.
Yes these things happened many British officers stayed on in the Indian Army and many British civil servants stayed on also. They were kept on by the Indian Government. The plot is set some 10 years after Independence when Smalley in his late sixties or early seventies is already pensioned off and living in a small cottage.
The film captures all the poignancy of the end of Empire and how it affected the British and Indians on an individual basis and above all it shows that despite claims to the contrary British Rule was not over resented by the Indians. They wanted Independence yes but the British were rather liked.

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