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A Taste of Honey (1961)

Directed by Tony Richardson

Drama

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Overview

While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and abandoned. When her mother remarries, Jo’s only support becomes her friend Geoffrey, a homosexual.

Length 100 minutes

Actors

Rita Tushingham | Murray Melvin | Paul Danquah | Dora Bryan | Robert Stephens | Michael Bilton | Eunice Black | David Boliver | Margo Cunningham | Rosalie Williams | Veronica Howard | Moira Kaye

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

A good film, part of the British working class “kitchen sink” dramas of the 1960’s. It does a great job showing the grimy and industrialized Manchester. Bold depictions (for its time) of an interracial pregnancy and a sympathetic gay man.

Note: Peter Yates was assistant director.

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