The Householder Movie Review 1963

An early Merchant-Ivory collaboration featuring a young Indian schoolteacher whose widowed mother arranges his marriage to a woman he doesn't know. The immature couple find their adjustment to marriage fraught with, sometimes amusing, complications.

Distribution

Connoisseur Meridian Films, 1575 Westwood Blvd., Ste. 305, Los Angeles, CA 90024, Phone: (310)231-1350, Fax: (310)231-1359, Email: info@meridianvideo.com, URL: http://www.meridianvideo.com

Available on VHS
Running time 101 minutes.
Originally from Indian.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Comedy Drama, Marriage

Screenplay

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Cast

Shashi Kapoor, Leela Naidu, Durga Khote

Director

James Ivory

Producer

Merchant-Ivory Productions