A Taste Of Honey

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  • Опубліковано 24 лип 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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  • @coralarch
    @coralarch 15 років тому +147

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

    • @jayturner3397
      @jayturner3397 Рік тому +1

      V true 👍 cheers 🍻

    • @del7i540
      @del7i540 Рік тому

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

    • @ghostrider2664
      @ghostrider2664 Рік тому +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 9 місяців тому

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

    • @JaesadaSrisuk
      @JaesadaSrisuk 4 місяці тому +1

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

  • @cordeliahamilton1061
    @cordeliahamilton1061 Рік тому +32

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

  • @lindat2009
    @lindat2009 Рік тому +29

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

    • @del7i540
      @del7i540 Рік тому

      creepy, weird, faux.

  • @monochrome8731
    @monochrome8731 Рік тому +28

    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 Рік тому +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 Рік тому +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 7 місяців тому

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

  • @dannyvaulter5889
    @dannyvaulter5889 11 років тому +53

    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 11 років тому +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 6 років тому +10

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

    • @prahslra
      @prahslra 6 років тому +6

      What a wonderful memory! Thanks for sharing it here.

    • @michaelstavri5943
      @michaelstavri5943 4 роки тому +2

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

    • @MrKruger88
      @MrKruger88 4 роки тому +1

      That's really neat, thanks for sharing.

    • @kbohare
      @kbohare 3 роки тому

      What a memory to cherish

  • @janeabbott5379
    @janeabbott5379 3 місяці тому +3

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

  • @areyoureceivingme
    @areyoureceivingme 12 років тому +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 4 роки тому +3

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

    • @bettyboop59able1
      @bettyboop59able1 2 роки тому +3

      Same for me to a classic 🙂

    • @bettyboop59able1
      @bettyboop59able1 2 роки тому +2

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

  • @imgoingtocountdownfromthir4580

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

  • @65wiseman
    @65wiseman 5 років тому +12

    A touching movie and Tushingham is glorious.

  • @ricko3k
    @ricko3k 15 років тому +49

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

    • @youandwhosearmy6339
      @youandwhosearmy6339 4 роки тому +8

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

    • @gerrynicol3951
      @gerrynicol3951 Рік тому +2

      Murray Melvin who passed away 14 April 2023

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 Рік тому +2

      RIP.

  • @Susie196921
    @Susie196921 10 років тому +31

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

  • @gregf9160
    @gregf9160 4 роки тому +7

    Murray Melvin was marvellous in this.

  • @timothy8017
    @timothy8017 2 роки тому +3

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

  • @cynthiahawkins2389
    @cynthiahawkins2389 9 років тому +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 8 років тому +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 8 років тому +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 5 років тому +9

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

    • @garycummins8443
      @garycummins8443 5 років тому +3

      Kitchen sink dramas rather than kitchen table Cynthia

    • @mattmale7183
      @mattmale7183 5 років тому +3

      @@unclealand Yes, 'Kitchen sink'.

  • @feverpitchtv
    @feverpitchtv 12 років тому +10

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

  • @KJ-xc6qs
    @KJ-xc6qs 2 роки тому +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.

  • @sirkeithstarmerofwokeshita2713
    @sirkeithstarmerofwokeshita2713 2 роки тому +4

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

  • @rickilynnwolfe8357
    @rickilynnwolfe8357 2 роки тому +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

  • @harryroberts2403
    @harryroberts2403 4 роки тому +5

    Shelagh take a bow !!

  • @asa1973100
    @asa1973100 12 років тому +11

    Murray Melvin - awesome old school actor

  • @dvardeman
    @dvardeman 12 років тому +6

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

  • @Loverboy19691
    @Loverboy19691 13 років тому +8

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

  • @jaccusefashion
    @jaccusefashion 11 років тому +6

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

  • @RobertoLorenzPianist
    @RobertoLorenzPianist 10 років тому +20

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

  • @raymondgrice4118
    @raymondgrice4118 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @dybbuk4640
    @dybbuk4640 15 років тому +7

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

  • @anthonyhamer6158
    @anthonyhamer6158 5 років тому +16

    wish these kind of films were on telly a bit more

    • @josephinebennington7247
      @josephinebennington7247 4 роки тому +2

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

    • @anthonyhamer6158
      @anthonyhamer6158 4 роки тому +1

      @@josephinebennington7247 yes sometimes there on this station
      cheers

    • @sonnykingcomposer
      @sonnykingcomposer 4 роки тому +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 4 роки тому +1

      @@sonnykingcomposer i like old and modern films

    • @sonnykingcomposer
      @sonnykingcomposer 4 роки тому +2

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

  • @RobertoLorenzPianist
    @RobertoLorenzPianist 5 років тому +5

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

  • @elliottgregory9539
    @elliottgregory9539 Місяць тому

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

  • @jamestomlinson2000
    @jamestomlinson2000 11 років тому +2

    Brilliant Scene. Brilliant Film. Brilliant Story.

  • @AndrewWilliams-zc1hf
    @AndrewWilliams-zc1hf 6 років тому +4

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

  • @7arboreal
    @7arboreal 4 роки тому +4

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

  • @MsSarjen
    @MsSarjen 14 років тому +3

    Great film, Tush is wonderful in it.

  • @adeblair
    @adeblair 12 років тому +3

    Shelagh Delaney R.I.P.

  • @Resenbrink
    @Resenbrink 14 років тому +2

    what a great film....

  • @hebneh
    @hebneh 5 років тому +11

    Grey, cold, depressing, despairing. And wet.

    • @harryroberts2403
      @harryroberts2403 4 роки тому +3

      Yep, that's Manchester

    • @FrancisBecka
      @FrancisBecka 3 роки тому +1

      I live steps away from Barton swing bridge - hasn't changed.

  • @starouterspace4320
    @starouterspace4320 5 років тому +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 4 роки тому +2

    They just come any better than this amazing film.

  • @DSmith365
    @DSmith365 14 років тому +3

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

  • @georgie23
    @georgie23 14 років тому +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 2 роки тому

      Reel around the fountain ⛲️ one of them -

  • @sinner48
    @sinner48 3 роки тому +2

    classic movie one of my favourites

  • @weeeeoooow
    @weeeeoooow 11 років тому +2

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

  • @marimardin4309
    @marimardin4309 3 роки тому +2

    i love this actress❤

  • @gavinpow77
    @gavinpow77 14 років тому +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.

  • @merseymain
    @merseymain 14 років тому +4

    A BRITISH CLASSIC

  • @jtab4994
    @jtab4994 13 років тому

    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!

  • @ebf1957
    @ebf1957 14 років тому +4

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

  • @john111257
    @john111257 13 років тому +1

    the best 60s movie..british classic

  • @AS6VIDEO
    @AS6VIDEO 15 років тому +2

    A classic film

  • @littleredrose6254
    @littleredrose6254 2 роки тому +2

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

  • @Orchidee7
    @Orchidee7 Рік тому

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

  • @RicardoMartinez-oh9sq
    @RicardoMartinez-oh9sq 7 місяців тому +1

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

  • @szilvavirag
    @szilvavirag 14 років тому +6

    Murray Melvin

  • @asmodeus0454
    @asmodeus0454 Рік тому +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.

  • @IchbinSchalker
    @IchbinSchalker 15 років тому +1

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

    • @MANthe93
      @MANthe93 3 роки тому

      IchbinSchalker what song, you prick?

  • @zweiosterei
    @zweiosterei 13 років тому +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.'

  • @janarnaud8058
    @janarnaud8058 5 років тому +1

    Beautiful movie

  • @meatwoodflacmedia
    @meatwoodflacmedia 8 років тому +120

    Morrissey Anyone?

    • @snake-oil
      @snake-oil 6 років тому +1

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

    • @ailtondossantos69
      @ailtondossantos69 5 років тому +6

      "The dream has gone
      But the baby is real"

    • @monazurroville6652
      @monazurroville6652 5 років тому +3

      I went on comment section to find this comment😂

    • @arnoldamaral7406
      @arnoldamaral7406 4 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @forreal245
    @forreal245 5 років тому +2

    British movies are the best.

  • @ricko3k
    @ricko3k 14 років тому +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.

  • @megmoses328
    @megmoses328 8 років тому +11

    this is how it was,, in the sixtees

  • @joconnor6
    @joconnor6 12 років тому

    Great, if sad, movie

  • @racheltarmey6429
    @racheltarmey6429 5 років тому +3

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

  • @dancingbearfilms
    @dancingbearfilms 15 років тому +1

    aaaaaaa-mazing!

  • @mrmynx
    @mrmynx 10 років тому +24

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

  • @leopictor
    @leopictor 14 років тому +1

    1:45 CLASSIC!

  • @naviifra2374
    @naviifra2374 3 роки тому

    this is so gritty

  • @anthonyhamer6158
    @anthonyhamer6158 5 років тому

    wish these kind of films were on tey a bit more

  • @thunor3656
    @thunor3656 Рік тому +1

    Thank you Morrissey

  • @conanhayle
    @conanhayle 6 років тому +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

  • @ravenhill_firelord_1968
    @ravenhill_firelord_1968 6 років тому +7

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

  • @bigtwit799
    @bigtwit799 3 роки тому

    he's one of them

  • @Kohl423
    @Kohl423 13 років тому +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 4 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +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!!

  • @jtab4994
    @jtab4994 14 років тому

    Pity this movie isn't available in Region 1.

  • @bascet1
    @bascet1 10 років тому +8

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

  • @ClassicTV4U
    @ClassicTV4U Місяць тому

    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.

  • @mwells219
    @mwells219 2 місяці тому

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

  • @terryosborne5928
    @terryosborne5928 6 років тому +1

    Kitchen Sink Drama

  • @littleredrose6254
    @littleredrose6254 2 роки тому

    Just wondering, is Jo short for Josephine or Joanne?

  • @bertilliozephyrsgate6196
    @bertilliozephyrsgate6196 4 роки тому +2

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

  • @davidpar2
    @davidpar2 4 роки тому +1

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

  • @lucaaa03
    @lucaaa03 4 роки тому +1

    morrissey ❤

  • @simonrowe5380
    @simonrowe5380 3 роки тому

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

    • @versioncity1
      @versioncity1 Рік тому +1

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

  • @ARIZJOE
    @ARIZJOE Рік тому +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.

  • @bensimps123
    @bensimps123 13 років тому +2

    why didnt geoff stay :(

  • @ane7441
    @ane7441 3 роки тому

    モリッシーが好きなんですかね。
    フルで見たいなあ

  • @riseuplight
    @riseuplight 14 років тому

    yeah thanks never saw it so i didnt understand

  • @tomschneitter8180
    @tomschneitter8180 4 роки тому +1

    Now you’re being Irish. Brill!

    • @paolobradley1
      @paolobradley1 4 роки тому

      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".

  • @dvardeman
    @dvardeman 12 років тому

    @feverpitch96 So sorry to learn this.

  • @rohansrider
    @rohansrider 10 років тому +4

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

  • @athensinrome
    @athensinrome 10 років тому +5

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

  • @riseuplight
    @riseuplight 14 років тому

    the colors wrong?

  • @robertodowneso
    @robertodowneso 13 років тому

    THIS IS ENGLAND 61

  • @Mr_Lupine
    @Mr_Lupine 13 років тому

    @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 ; )

  • @wisesatyr72
    @wisesatyr72 16 років тому +1

    Morrissey told me to watch this..

  • @CS-rk6fu
    @CS-rk6fu 8 років тому +4

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

  • @Mr_Lupine
    @Mr_Lupine 13 років тому

    @bensimps123 or else ???

  • @Lacrimosemo
    @Lacrimosemo 6 років тому +1

    God!! She looks like Natalie Merchant...

  • @mrpinks4985
    @mrpinks4985 10 років тому

    old meand