A Taste of Honey (film)

A Taste of Honey
A Taste of Honey
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Directed by	Tony Richardson
Screenplay by	Shelagh Delaney; Tony Richardson
Based on	A Taste of Honey; 1958 play; by Shelagh Delaney
Produced by	Tony Richardson
Starring	Rita Tushingham; Dora Bryan; Robert Stephens; Murray Melvin; Paul Danquah
Cinematography	Walter Lassally
Edited by	Antony Gibbs
Music by	John Addison
Production; company	Woodfall Film Productions
Distributed by	British Lion Films
Release date	14 September 1961;
Running time	100 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Budget	£121,602

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.

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^ Alexander Walker, Hollywood, England, Stein and Day, 1974, p. 124.
^ 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.
^ 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
^ 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
^ "A Taste of Honey". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 11 December 2023.