A Taste Of Honey

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  • čas přidán 24. 07. 2008
  • Jo feeling depressed. Geoff tries to help. Great scene from 'A Taste Of Honey' (1961).
    From the film by Tony Richardson. Based on the play by Shelagh Delaney.
    One of the best dramas to come out of the British New Wave/kitchen sink movement of the 1950's and 1960's.
    With Rita Tushingham, Murray Melvin, Robert Stephens, Dora Bryan, PaulDanquah.
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Komentáře • 201

  • @coralarch
    @coralarch Před 15 lety +148

    The Brits excel at films about ordinary people and their problems- and do it with humour and humanity. Love this genre.

    • @jayturner3397
      @jayturner3397 Před rokem +1

      V true 👍 cheers 🍻

    • @del7i540
      @del7i540 Před rokem

      Ordinary people,where ? Creepy as fawk -liberals love degrading and defective displays of DNA through strange homosexuals and interracial mixing.

    • @ghostrider2664
      @ghostrider2664 Před rokem +1

      ​@Maponus Reborn it captured I guess what I would imagine post-war England to be. Kinda bleak and depressing, isn't it?

    • @stuartlawsonbeattie1411
      @stuartlawsonbeattie1411 Před 8 měsíci

      Thank you, the irony is there is nothing ordinary about these wonderful artists and great movies of great character.

    • @JaesadaSrisuk
      @JaesadaSrisuk Před 4 měsíci +1

      Have you seen any of Ken Loach or Andrea Arnold? You’d definitely love their oeuvres, then.

  • @cordeliahamilton1061
    @cordeliahamilton1061 Před rokem +31

    Murray Melvin passed away today, 14/4/1923. RIP Murray. A very memorable film. He was 90 years old. 😪😪🇬🇧

  • @lindat2009
    @lindat2009 Před rokem +29

    What an absolutely brilliant film. We all need Geoffrey in our lives ❤

  • @janeabbott5379
    @janeabbott5379 Před 3 měsíci +4

    Murray Melvin! What a fantastic role he played in this!

  • @areyoureceivingme
    @areyoureceivingme Před 12 lety +59

    You know when you just happen upon a film as a young child and it just stays with you. It is one of my all-time favourites.

    • @777_oracale
      @777_oracale Před 4 lety +3

      Yes I just remembered it today and googled and to my delight I found it.👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👌🏾👌🏾

    • @bettyboop59able1
      @bettyboop59able1 Před 2 lety +3

      Same for me to a classic 🙂

    • @bettyboop59able1
      @bettyboop59able1 Před 2 lety +2

      The other film “Cathy come home”had a big impact to

  • @monochrome8731
    @monochrome8731 Před rokem +29

    I'm a Smiths fan and my fav song is "This night has opened my eyes" which the song was inspired by this film, I absolutely loved this film and I would love to watch a mini series about them raising their child together

    • @imgoingtocountdownfromthir4580
      @imgoingtocountdownfromthir4580 Před rokem +10

      Morrissey used a few phrases from this film, such as "I dreamt about you last night, and fell out of bed twice" and "I haven't got a stitch to wear"

    • @didsthecat1503
      @didsthecat1503 Před rokem +3

      My favourite song of theirs too. Very moving, and I have to admit, I’ve cried to it a lot recently.

    • @RicardoMartinez-oh9sq
      @RicardoMartinez-oh9sq Před 7 měsíci

      Love The Smiths, too, greetings from Ohio, USA.

  • @dannyvaulter5889
    @dannyvaulter5889 Před 10 lety +52

    I saw this on a TV "late Show' in Iowa when I was 13 just a year or two after it was made. It was the first and for many many years the only positive presentation of a homosexual that I would see. I have the deepest respect and admiration for this film.

  • @melezee
    @melezee Před 11 lety +117

    I remember watching them shoot this scene when I was about 18yrs old ,It was filmed in St Marys Church Yard .just by Stockport Market Hall, I was a traniee press photographer, working for the Stockport Press Agency. at the time They then went on to Film in Blackpool. most of the filming was done with portable hand held cameras, one of the first films units to move out of London to film on location in the north.I still have a BFI copy on DVD I am 69 now.

    • @enna1913
      @enna1913 Před 6 lety +10

      North camsabout dewood Wow! How fortunate you were to witness the filming of this beautiful, important movie.

    • @prahslra
      @prahslra Před 6 lety +6

      What a wonderful memory! Thanks for sharing it here.

    • @michaelstavri5943
      @michaelstavri5943 Před 4 lety +2

      Very interesting... I only saw the film yesterday I found it very moving and historical..

    • @MrKruger88
      @MrKruger88 Před 4 lety +1

      That's really neat, thanks for sharing.

    • @kbohare
      @kbohare Před 3 lety

      What a memory to cherish

  • @65wiseman
    @65wiseman Před 5 lety +12

    A touching movie and Tushingham is glorious.

  • @imgoingtocountdownfromthir4580

    RIP Murray Melvin, passed away today at the age of 90.

  • @Susie196921
    @Susie196921 Před 10 lety +31

    This movie is one of my favorites and one of the best movies made in the 1960's!

  • @ricko3k
    @ricko3k Před 15 lety +50

    Murray Melvin, what a class act and totally understed actor.

    • @youandwhosearmy6339
      @youandwhosearmy6339 Před 4 lety +8

      He is great, but everybody in this film is outstanding. What a total masterpiece this movie is.

    • @gerrynicol3951
      @gerrynicol3951 Před rokem +2

      Murray Melvin who passed away 14 April 2023

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 Před rokem +2

      RIP.

  • @gregf9160
    @gregf9160 Před 4 lety +7

    Murray Melvin was marvellous in this.

  • @timothy8017
    @timothy8017 Před 2 lety +3

    First time watching. That might be a movie I re-watch 40 or 50 times.

  • @sirkeithstarmerofwokeshita2713

    Beautiful picture, heartbreaking beautiful ; from a Salford lad and god bless Shelagh Delany

  • @rickilynnwolfe8357
    @rickilynnwolfe8357 Před 2 lety +11

    I’ve watch this movie for years every time it comes on TMC it’s such a great piece of art and the actors are so real like . I fell in love with Geoffrey the very first time I ever watched it . Breaks my heart at the end how Jo turned her back on him and I always liked to think that Geoffrey and Jo reunite sometime later on. I wish all men were a Geoffrey . Great film

  • @feverpitchtv
    @feverpitchtv Před 12 lety +10

    Rest in peace, Shelagh Delaney, passed away this weekend aged 72. x

  • @harryroberts2403
    @harryroberts2403 Před 4 lety +6

    Shelagh take a bow !!

  • @dvardeman
    @dvardeman Před 12 lety +7

    A great movie of a great play. One of the best movies of the 60s.

  • @Loverboy19691
    @Loverboy19691 Před 13 lety +9

    One of my favourite films, captures a the 60's and how it looked back then!

  • @asa1973100
    @asa1973100 Před 12 lety +12

    Murray Melvin - awesome old school actor

  • @KJ-xc6qs
    @KJ-xc6qs Před 2 lety +14

    Brilliantly acted and directed! In 1961, this "shocking" film was actually banned in certain countries for depicting a mixed-race relationship, homosexuality, unwed teen pregnancy, and other aspects of society common today.

  • @cynthiahawkins2389
    @cynthiahawkins2389 Před 9 lety +87

    The gritty, black and white "Kitchen Table" films coming out of Britain in the 1960's spoke loud and clear about the changes that were happening in society and the world. I loved Taste of Honey, also Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, This Sporting Life. Americans got to see actors like Alan Bates, Julie Christie, Rachel Roberts, Albert Finney, Richard Harris, Rita Tushigham, a young, powerful Oliver Reed, Tom Courtenay. What a gift, these. I prefer not to dwell on the sociological heavy stuff - just watch and dig the movie.Leave the film analysis for later - fascinating and important as that may be!!

    • @tangogirl100
      @tangogirl100 Před 8 lety +3

      +Cynthia Hawkins, I agree, loved this movie & especially "Darling" with Julie Christie & all you mentioned above. They don't make these great movies anymore here in the US...just some good Independent ones...

    • @tangogirl100
      @tangogirl100 Před 8 lety +1

      +Carol Adams , I haven't been able to get my hands on "Saturday Night & Sunday Morning either, This sporting life is available on Netflix, one of my favorites also..

    • @unclealand
      @unclealand Před 5 lety +9

      They were "kitchen sink" dramas, not kitchen table.

    • @garycummins8443
      @garycummins8443 Před 5 lety +3

      Kitchen sink dramas rather than kitchen table Cynthia

    • @mattmale7183
      @mattmale7183 Před 5 lety +3

      @@unclealand Yes, 'Kitchen sink'.

  • @RobertoLorenzPianist
    @RobertoLorenzPianist Před 10 lety +21

    I don't even have words to say how much I love this movie!

  • @elliottgregory9539
    @elliottgregory9539 Před 27 dny

    This movie always makes me cry. A taste of Love and Friendship..

  • @jaccusefashion
    @jaccusefashion Před 11 lety +6

    THE BEST BRITISH BRITISH FILM BY A MILE! Perfect.....Dora Bryan....all the way and Murray Melvin is sublime as is Tushingham...

  • @raymondgrice4118
    @raymondgrice4118 Před 2 lety +1

    awsome lead actors for a truly awsome film love waching rita tushingham

  • @dybbuk4640
    @dybbuk4640 Před 15 lety +7

    if art is meant to reflect life, then this film is art. it reflects life bleakly, as bleak as life can sometimes be.

  • @RobertoLorenzPianist
    @RobertoLorenzPianist Před 5 lety +5

    Thinking of this film I'm always astounded about how much I can love a movie.

  • @hebneh
    @hebneh Před 5 lety +11

    Grey, cold, depressing, despairing. And wet.

  • @anthonyhamer6158
    @anthonyhamer6158 Před 5 lety +16

    wish these kind of films were on telly a bit more

    • @josephinebennington7247
      @josephinebennington7247 Před 4 lety +2

      Anthony Hamer. You need Talking Pictures TV. Just what you ordered. Current in 2020.

    • @anthonyhamer6158
      @anthonyhamer6158 Před 4 lety +1

      @@josephinebennington7247 yes sometimes there on this station
      cheers

    • @sonnykingcomposer
      @sonnykingcomposer Před 4 lety +2

      I prefer my more modern stuff tbh, the reason why they don't show them is because it won't get enough viewing figures.

    • @anthonyhamer6158
      @anthonyhamer6158 Před 4 lety +1

      @@sonnykingcomposer i like old and modern films

    • @sonnykingcomposer
      @sonnykingcomposer Před 4 lety +2

      @@anthonyhamer6158 I'm more into modern films tbh, I've allways thought the acting and directing was quite bland.

  • @adeblair
    @adeblair Před 12 lety +3

    Shelagh Delaney R.I.P.

  • @7arboreal
    @7arboreal Před 4 lety +4

    This is such a contrast to Smashing Time, which Rita Tushingham is equally good in.

  • @AndrewWilliams-zc1hf
    @AndrewWilliams-zc1hf Před 6 lety +4

    A ground breaking film. I've seen it several times.

  • @MsSarjen
    @MsSarjen Před 14 lety +3

    Great film, Tush is wonderful in it.

  • @starouterspace4320
    @starouterspace4320 Před 5 lety +2

    This scene is filmed at the Market place in Stockport,that tomb in the graveyard has been moved,a part of history that has nt changed much...
    Such a great film,really captures the romance & grime of the 60s.

  • @youandwhosearmy6339
    @youandwhosearmy6339 Před 4 lety +2

    They just come any better than this amazing film.

  • @szilvavirag
    @szilvavirag Před 14 lety +6

    Murray Melvin

  • @DSmith365
    @DSmith365 Před 13 lety +3

    "The color is wrong!" Jimmy should've have more senses. Great movie, made me fall in love with England!

  • @jamestomlinson2000
    @jamestomlinson2000 Před 11 lety +2

    Brilliant Scene. Brilliant Film. Brilliant Story.

  • @merseymain
    @merseymain Před 14 lety +4

    A BRITISH CLASSIC

  • @Resenbrink
    @Resenbrink Před 14 lety +2

    what a great film....

  • @sinner48
    @sinner48 Před 3 lety +2

    classic movie one of my favourites

  • @littleredrose6254
    @littleredrose6254 Před 2 lety +2

    I love the sound of the church bells. You don't hear that now, everywhere is so noisy and busy.

  • @marimardin4309
    @marimardin4309 Před 3 lety +2

    i love this actress❤

  • @ebf1957
    @ebf1957 Před 14 lety +4

    Loved this movie. Rita looks like a young Tracey Ullman.

  • @weeeeoooow
    @weeeeoooow Před 11 lety +2

    Me too, so real, gritty and depressing about two outsiders finding friendship and support....such a great film and script : )

  • @zweiosterei
    @zweiosterei Před 13 lety +4

    'Do you like me more than you don't like me or do you not like me more than you do?'
    'Now you're being Irish.'

  • @georgie23
    @georgie23 Před 14 lety +3

    I love this movie...Its great. Any True Moz fan should see this movie since a few lines from the movie..morrissey used in some smiths songs.

    • @schorsch5314
      @schorsch5314 Před 2 lety

      Reel around the fountain ⛲️ one of them -

  • @AS6VIDEO
    @AS6VIDEO Před 15 lety +2

    A classic film

  • @john111257
    @john111257 Před 13 lety +1

    the best 60s movie..british classic

  • @asmodeus0454
    @asmodeus0454 Před rokem +1

    Shelagh Delaney's great play from 1958 made into the 1961 film directed by Tony Richardson. Released Sept. 15, 1961. Delaney and Richardson co-wrote the screenplay for the film.

  • @Orchidee7
    @Orchidee7 Před rokem

    A wonderful movie, which I saw, when I was 15 years old.

  • @RicardoMartinez-oh9sq
    @RicardoMartinez-oh9sq Před 7 měsíci +1

    I am reading the book, "A light that never goes out-The enduring saga of The Smiths": This movie deeply inspired Morrisey.

  • @jtab4994
    @jtab4994 Před 13 lety

    Can't wait - it's on Turner Classic Thursday at 10:00PM eastern time. Not available on Region 1 DVD so this is my only chance to see it!

  • @meatwoodflacmedia
    @meatwoodflacmedia Před 8 lety +120

    Morrissey Anyone?

    • @snake-oil
      @snake-oil Před 6 lety +1

      "There's a Place in Hell for Me and My Friends, and I Don't Mind If You Forget Me"

    • @ailtondossantos69
      @ailtondossantos69 Před 5 lety +6

      "The dream has gone
      But the baby is real"

    • @monazurroville6652
      @monazurroville6652 Před 5 lety +3

      I went on comment section to find this comment😂

    • @arnoldamaral7406
      @arnoldamaral7406 Před 4 lety +3

      The Disingenuous Gamer It's a coastal town but they I forgot to shut down. Come Come Armageddon come nuclear war. That's pretty much the way it was those were the days my friend I prayed that they would end. Thank God for the Beatles it was like lithium amen and Glory Hallelujah. Most ardently Arnold Bourbon Amaral 🙏🌚🌏🌎🌍🏃🏃🏃☝

    • @trevorloughlin1492
      @trevorloughlin1492 Před 3 lety +1

      More Joy Division than the Smiths in my opinion. I watched this film at art school and have been obsessed ever since.

  • @megmoses328
    @megmoses328 Před 8 lety +11

    this is how it was,, in the sixtees

  • @janarnaud8058
    @janarnaud8058 Před 5 lety +1

    Beautiful movie

  • @conanhayle
    @conanhayle Před 6 lety +4

    I remember sitting next to Rita Tushingham in a pub in Polperro in Cornwall back in the early 70s and feeling all strange as a 20 year old boy

  • @gavinpow77
    @gavinpow77 Před 14 lety +2

    Studied and acted this play for GCSE drama, along with A Kind of Loving. Thankyou Mr Kaczmaryk (my drama teacher). Gave me a great insight to kitchen sink drama. Still love these films. I doubt kids get such insight these days.

  • @ricko3k
    @ricko3k Před 14 lety +4

    @realtwinlord. He works at the Theatre Royal as trustee and archivist. I emailed him via the theatre email about a year ago, mentioning what a great part I thought he played in the film, and to my surprise he answered. He sounds a lovely chap. Good luck to him.

  • @joconnor6
    @joconnor6 Před 12 lety

    Great, if sad, movie

  • @forreal245
    @forreal245 Před 5 lety +2

    British movies are the best.

  • @racheltarmey6429
    @racheltarmey6429 Před 5 lety +3

    remember reading this in school . the tittle was a taste of honey with sub tittle
    " a nice view over the gas works"

  • @mrmynx
    @mrmynx Před 10 lety +24

    "The Colours wrong"?? I thought all babies in these movies were gray?...:)

  • @leopictor
    @leopictor Před 14 lety +1

    1:45 CLASSIC!

  • @thunor3656
    @thunor3656 Před rokem +1

    Thank you Morrissey

  • @dancingbearfilms
    @dancingbearfilms Před 15 lety +1

    aaaaaaa-mazing!

  • @IchbinSchalker
    @IchbinSchalker Před 15 lety +1

    That's great! Congratulations! I love this song.

    • @MANthe93
      @MANthe93 Před 3 lety

      IchbinSchalker what song, you prick?

  • @mwells219
    @mwells219 Před 2 měsíci

    This is like the cinematic equivalent of a joy division song.

  • @naviifra2374
    @naviifra2374 Před 3 lety

    this is so gritty

  • @bertilliozephyrsgate6196
    @bertilliozephyrsgate6196 Před 4 lety +2

    Movies: If they're black and white and British, they're Good.

  • @bascet1
    @bascet1 Před 10 lety +8

    Morrissey's favourite film. Salford has always been bleak and hard!! It's just rougher nowadays!!!

  • @ravenhill_firelord_1968
    @ravenhill_firelord_1968 Před 6 lety +7

    this is when this country was great, a bygone era which will never come back.

  • @anthonyhamer6158
    @anthonyhamer6158 Před 5 lety

    wish these kind of films were on tey a bit more

  • @bigtwit799
    @bigtwit799 Před 2 lety

    he's one of them

  • @davidpar2
    @davidpar2 Před 4 lety +1

    That’s the gal who would go on to play Zhivago’s grown up daughter four years later

  • @lucaaa03
    @lucaaa03 Před 4 lety +1

    morrissey ❤

  • @ARIZJOE
    @ARIZJOE Před rokem +1

    This film illustrates the privations and economic hardships face by a bombed out Britain after WW ll. It made you think, about young people and the youth culture that soon emerged out of the rubble. "A Taste of Honey," the music was a recurring theme for the Broadway version of the British play in 1958. I believe that instrumental is not used in the film. Lyrics were added later, and of course the song was done by the Beatles. This film was released a year or so before the Beatles broke out in the U.K. It's unfortunate that the Beatles song could not have been used. The poignancy of the song reflects the lifestyle way back then, and I believe the lads had had a bitter taste of that. The plaintive tone of Paul's vocals make me think of the movie - and they are not related whatsoever.

  • @Kohl423
    @Kohl423 Před 13 lety +4

    A film from my youthful memories when the UK and France for example made such earthy, grainy films. At the time they didn't mean quite as much but now they remind me of lost youth and a lost world that was once England. Very Black & White in those days (nothing to do with race).

    • @Marcel_Audubon
      @Marcel_Audubon Před 4 lety +1

      you must not know what grainy means, those movies were sharp and clear - black and white isn't synonymous with grainy

    • @BuffaloBuffalo-uc6zp
      @BuffaloBuffalo-uc6zp Před 3 lety +1

      It has everything to do with race, every culture has a right to their own identity, to be replaced by another is genocide, to think anything else is living in denial or playing the fool to what is staring you in the face..As the Beatles used to say living is easy when your eye's are closed!!

  • @ClassicTV4U
    @ClassicTV4U Před 21 dnem

    This film doesn't get shown that much on TV (recently played on TCM) --I suppose with "streaming" services it's a bit more accessible, but see it if you get the opportunity.

  • @terryosborne5928
    @terryosborne5928 Před 6 lety +1

    Kitchen Sink Drama

  • @jtab4994
    @jtab4994 Před 14 lety

    Pity this movie isn't available in Region 1.

  • @tomschneitter8180
    @tomschneitter8180 Před 4 lety +1

    Now you’re being Irish. Brill!

    • @paolobradley1
      @paolobradley1 Před 4 lety

      I think writer Shelagh Delaney was making inferences to her own Irish family. The play and the film are about people who are marginalised, and the Irish most certainly were. Besides, Shelagh often said that she "wrote how people speak".

  • @riseuplight
    @riseuplight Před 14 lety

    yeah thanks never saw it so i didnt understand

  • @rohansrider
    @rohansrider Před 10 lety +4

    The days before legal abortion .Thank goodness for David Steele!

  • @ane7441
    @ane7441 Před 3 lety

    モリッシーが好きなんですかね。
    フルで見たいなあ

  • @athensinrome
    @athensinrome Před 10 lety +5

    Jo (Rita Tushingham) and Geoffrey (Murray Melvin) make a splendid queer couple. #splenax

  • @bensimps123
    @bensimps123 Před 13 lety +2

    why didnt geoff stay :(

  • @dvardeman
    @dvardeman Před 12 lety

    @feverpitch96 So sorry to learn this.

  • @robertodowneso
    @robertodowneso Před 13 lety

    THIS IS ENGLAND 61

  • @simonrowe5380
    @simonrowe5380 Před 3 lety

    This is very good.. Was Tony Richardson's Dad a villian from Croydon - a sort of South East London 'Kray' ?

    • @versioncity1
      @versioncity1 Před rokem +1

      Weird? - Why would you think that? - his dad was a chemist from Yorkshire.

  • @littleredrose6254
    @littleredrose6254 Před 2 lety

    Just wondering, is Jo short for Josephine or Joanne?

  • @janbonsema5888
    @janbonsema5888 Před 3 lety

    it was either this , or Eddie Constantine, for my money

  • @Mr_Lupine
    @Mr_Lupine Před 12 lety

    @bensimps123 ha ha ha promises promises, I'm not your flavour but I'll give you 12 out of 10 for the perverse humour of your answer :D ; )

  • @CS-rk6fu
    @CS-rk6fu Před 8 lety +4

    It's a British thing, so keep your neb out.

  • @ritwikmalpani2534
    @ritwikmalpani2534 Před 2 lety

    This film has the most opposites

  • @wisesatyr72
    @wisesatyr72 Před 16 lety +1

    Morrissey told me to watch this..

  • @Lacrimosemo
    @Lacrimosemo Před 6 lety +1

    God!! She looks like Natalie Merchant...

  • @riseuplight
    @riseuplight Před 14 lety

    the colors wrong?