Bhowani Junction - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of Bhowani Junction or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Bhowani Junction

[kristina]

George Cukor had wanted John Mills for Patrick Taylor.

[brent]

Stewart Granger's motorcycle upon which Ava Gardner hitches a ride is a Norton. Bill Travers rides the same model when visiting Stewart Granger's residence later in the film.

[darrell]

George Cukor had originally wanted Trevor Howard as the lead, as Stewart Granger had been a front-runner for the role of Norman Maine in A Star Is Born (1954) but demurred when he heard Cukor's tendency toward over-rehearsing prior to shooting.

[albert]

The Pakistani government loaned a detachment of 400 men from the Frontier Force Rifle as well as a special police detail for scenes.

[scarlett]

MGM originally planned to film Bhowani Junction on location in India. That is, until the Indian government started making demands seeking script approval and a big tax payment of 12% of the film's worldwide net profit. MGM changed their plans and decided to film instead in Pakistan - whose government was more accommodating and less demanding of the studio. And this made the picture the first Hollywood film produced in that country.

[camila]

After the restaurant dance, the soldiers speak Pushtu (native to north Pakistan and Afghanistan) to Victoria and Rodney.

[charlie]

This film was a success at the box office, earning MGM a profit of $1,238,000 according to studio records.

[bessie]

The film's uneven reception was largely due to critical consensus that George Cukor was ill-equipped to capture the epic sweep of the political uprising in India. Indeed, Cukor's body of work was justly celebrated for his incisive female character studies, and, as such, he was seldom called upon to manage crowd scenes or stage action sequences. Not surprisingly, it is Victoria's dramatic arc that compels, whereas the railway sequences of protest and conflict are noticeably lacking in focus and scope.

[bernard]

In the novels by John Masters, Rodney Savage ( Stewart Granger ) in Bhowani Junction is the great-great-grandson of William Savage ( Pierce Brosnan ) in The Deceivers (1988).

[miriam]

Francis Matthews has said in interviews that huge chunks of his part ended up on the cutting room floor

[sara]

MGM outbid Columbia and 20th Century-Fox fro the film rights to the novel by John Masters upon which this film is based.

[kyle]

During the shooting of the movie, Ava Gardner attempted to seduce Stewart Granger, but he refused her advances because he was married to Jean Simmons. However, he and Gardner remained very close friends.

[ken]

Colonel Savage (Stewart Granger) gets the protesters off the train tracks by having "unclean" men dump an unidentified liquid on them. Whatever the liquid was, it required a long period of purification for the protesters to recover. In the book Colonel Savage had his men line up and urinate on the protesters, accomplishing the same thing.

[bryan]

Edward Chapman was hired to play Thomas Jones after the scenes had been shot with Joseph Tomelty playing the role.