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Originally released as a motion picture in 1961. |
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Based on the play by Shelagh Delaney. |
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Mono, wide screen 1.66:1. |
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Essay by film scholar Colin MacCabe in container. |
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Features: new interviews with actors Rita Tushingham and Murray Melvin; audio interview with director and co-screenwriter Tony Richardson from the 1962 Cannes Film Festival; excerpt from a 1960 television interview with playwright Shelagh Delaney; interview from 1998 with cinematographer Walter Lassally; "Remaking British theater : Joan Littlewood and A taste of honey," a new piece about the film's stage origins, featuring an interview with theater scholar Kate Dorney; Momma don't allow (1956), a Free Cinema short film by Richardson, shot by Lassally. |
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For private home use only. |
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In English with optional English subtitles. |
Cast |
Rita Tushingham, Murray Melvin, Dora Bryan, Robert Stephens, Paul Danquah. |
Summary |
When Jo becomes pregnant by a one-night stand with a black sailor, she moves in with her gay friend Geoffrey who helps her prepare for the baby, until Jo's overbearing mother reappears. |
Audience |
MPAA rating: Not rated. |
Other edition |
Reproduction of (manifestation): Taste of honey (Motion picture : 1961) Taste of honey Blu-ray special edition New York, NY : Criterion Collection, [2016] 1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. 715515184717. |
Subject |
Delaney, Shelagh, 1939-2011 -- Film adaptations.
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Teenage pregnancy -- Drama.
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Interracial dating -- Drama.
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Gay men -- Drama.
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Mothers and daughters -- Drama.
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Genre |
Film adaptations.
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Feature films.
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Fiction films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Series |
The Criterion collection ; 829
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Add'l Names |
Richardson, Tony, 1928-1991, screenwriter, producer, director.
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Tushingham, Rita, 1942- actor.
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Melvin, Murray, 1932- actor.
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Bryan, Dora, actor.
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Includes |
Motion picture adaptation of (work): Delaney, Shelagh, 1939-2011.
Taste of honey.
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Other Uniform title |
Taste of honey (Motion picture : 1961)
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ISBN |
9781681431956
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1681431955
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STANDARD # |
715515184816 |
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00715515184816 gtin-14 |
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CC2668D Criterion Collection |
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