A Taste of Honey (film)

A Taste of Honey
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Directed byTony Richardson
Screenplay byShelagh Delaney
Tony Richardson
Based onA Taste of Honey
1958 play
by Shelagh Delaney
Produced byTony Richardson
StarringRita Tushingham
Dora Bryan
Robert Stephens
Murray Melvin
Paul Danquah
CinematographyWalter Lassally
Edited byAntony Gibbs
Music byJohn Addison
Production
company
Distributed byBritish Lion Films
Release date
  • 14 September 1961 (1961-09-14)
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Running time
100 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
Budget£121,602[2][3][4][5]

A Taste of Honey is a 1961 British New Wave drama film directed by Tony Richardson and starring Rita Tushingham, Dora Bryan, Robert Stephens and Murray Melvin.[6] It is an adaptation of the 1958 play of the same name by Shelagh Delaney. Delaney wrote the screenplay with Richardson, who had directed the original Broadway production of the play in 1960. As with the play, the film is an exemplar of a social realist genre of British media known as kitchen sink realism.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference open was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Alexander Walker, Hollywood, England, Stein and Day, 1974, p. 124.
  3. ^ Petrie, Duncan James (2017). "Bryanston Films : An Experiment in Cooperative Independent Production and Distribution" (PDF). Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: 7. ISSN 1465-3451.
  4. ^ Chapman, L. (2021). “They wanted a bigger, more ambitious film”: Film Finances and the American “Runaways” That Ran Away. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 18(2), 176–197. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2021.0565
  5. ^ Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 360 gives figure as £120,349
  6. ^ "A Taste of Honey". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 11 December 2023.