Directed by:
Tony RichardsonCinematography:
Walter LassallyComposer:
John AddisonCast:
Dora Bryan, Robert Stephens, Rita Tushingham, Murray Melvin, Paul Danquah, Michael Bilton, Eunice BlackVOD (3)
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The revolutionary British New Wave films of the early 1960s were celebrated for their uncompromising depictions of working-class lives and relations between the sexes. Directed by Tony Richardson, a leading light of that movement, and based on one of the most controversial plays of its time, A Taste of Honey features Rita Tushingham in her star-making debut role as a disaffected teenager finding her way amid the economic desperation of industrial Manchester, and despite her absent, self-absorbed mother. With its unapologetic identification with social outcasts and its sensitive, modern approach to matters of sexuality and race, Richardson’s classic is a still startling benchmark work of realism. (Criterion)
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Dora Bryan
UK
Best movies:
The Fallen Idol (1948)
A Taste of Honey (1961)
Odd Man Out (1947)
Robert Stephens
UK
Best movies:
Romeo and Juliet (1968)
Chaplin (1992)
Cleopatra (1963)
Rita Tushingham
UK
Best movies:
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
The Trap (1966)
Mysteries (1978)
Murray Melvin
UK
Best movies:
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Jonathan Creek (1997) (series)
A Taste of Honey (1961)
Paul Danquah
UK
Best movies:
A Taste of Honey (1961)
Michael Bilton
UK
Best movies:
The Early Bird (1965)
Press for Time (1966)
Frenzy (1972) - a.f.
Eunice Black
UK
Best movies:
A Taste of Honey (1961)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1982) (TV movie)