A Taste Of Honey 

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

A touching movie and Tushingham is glorious.

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

Murray Melvin was marvellous in this.

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

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

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

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

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!!

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

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

Murray Melvin - awesome old school actor

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

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.

Shelagh take a bow !!

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

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

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

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

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

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

classic movie one of my favourites

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

Brilliant Scene. Brilliant Film. Brilliant Story.

Shelagh Delaney R.I.P.

Great film, Tush is wonderful in it.

wish these kind of films were on telly a bit more

what a great film....

Grey, cold, depressing, despairing. And wet.

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

i love this actress❤

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.

A classic film

They just come any better than this amazing film.

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

Murray Melvin

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

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

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

the best 60s movie..british classic

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.

A BRITISH CLASSIC

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

Beautiful movie

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.

'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.'

this is how it was,, in the sixtees

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

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!

Morrissey Anyone?

aaaaaaa-mazing!

Great, if sad, movie

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.

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

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

1:45 CLASSIC!

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

@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.

British movies are the best.

wish these kind of films were on tey a bit more

this is so gritty

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

Thank you Morrissey

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

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).

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

he's one of them

morrissey ❤

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

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.

Kitchen Sink Drama

why didnt geoff stay :(

モリッシーが好きなんですかね。 フルで見たいなあ

yeah thanks never saw it so i didnt understand

Pity this movie isn't available in Region 1.

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.

Now you’re being Irish. Brill!

@feverpitch96 So sorry to learn this.

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

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

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

Just wondering, is Jo short for Josephine or Joanne?

THIS IS ENGLAND 61

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

@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 ; )

the colors wrong?

Morrissey told me to watch this..

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

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

God!! She looks like Natalie Merchant...

old meand

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