Reviews for Bumble's Island

The average rating for Bumble's Island based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2021-07-02 00:00:00 Christine Ekstrom A good pictorial record of the background to creating a very good biopic of one of the 20th century's most famous individuals. It took 20 years for Richard Attenborough to bring this great work to screen. From the first approach by a Gandhi devotee to an untried film director, though successful actor, through stubborn persistence to adoption by film industry moguls. Bruising encounters with the latter, behaving like Shylock, would have crushed a lesser mortal. However, like his brother, David, he was brought up to believe in fighting for the truth; indeed the early chapters were of more interest, and were better penned, regarding his upbringing and belief systems. The photographs are liberally spread throughout the book but the record of shooting the film reads more like entries from a calendar, ceasing abruptly when the film was finally finished and sold for worldwide distribution. This devalued the book in my opinion. It needed another chapter on the response to the film, and its aftermath, to enhance its capability as a useful record of a mammoth artistic endeavour.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-02-28 00:00:00 Ron Bodnar A wonderful 'adult picture book' of photos and story of Richard Attenborough's making of the massive movie about Mahatma Gandhi's life. Now I would like to read more about Gandhi and I would like to re-view the movie. Gandhi has always been a hero but I didn't realize how much of one. It's an older book so I am not sure it will be found places other than thrift shops, but if you come across it, pick it up!