TASTE OF HONEY, A

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• Release Year: 1961
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: 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.
• Cast: Dora Bryan; Robert Stephens; Rita Tushingham; Murray Melvin; Paul Danquah; Michael Bilton; Eunice Black; David Boliver; Margo Cunningham; A. Goodman; John Harrison; Veronica Howard; Moira Kaye; Valerie Scarden; Herbert Smith; Rosalie Williams; Jack Yarker; Hazel Blears; Linda Lewis; Janet Rugg; Tony Richardson; Shelagh Delaney; Walter Lassally; Antony Gibbs; Neil Hartley; Don Challis; Roy Hyde; Ralph W. Brinton
• Director: Tony Richardson
• Runtime: 1:41
• Company: British Lion Film Corporation, Woodfall Film Productions Ltd., Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie