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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780783122854
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0783122853
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 17, 2003
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 28158
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: May 11, 1981
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Product 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.Running Time: 87 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 026359184628
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Tedious and deathly slow
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 ... Read More
Rating: - great acting-sad story
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 ... Read More
Rating:  - Excellent (sort of) sequel to Jewel in the Crown
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 ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent Sequel to Jewel in the Crown.
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 ... Read More
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