Movie
A Taste of Honey
Overview
While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and abandoned. When her mother remarries, Jo's only support becomes her friend Geoffrey, a homosexual.
Details
- Release date
- 1961-10-01
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Woodfall Film Productions
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Rita Tushingham as Jo
- Murray Melvin as Geoffrey Ingham
- Paul Danquah as Jimmy
- Dora Bryan as Helen
- Robert Stephens as Peter Smith
- Michael Bilton as Landlord
- Eunice Black as Schoolteacher
- David Boliver as Bert
- Margo Cunningham as Landlady
- Rosalie Williams as Nurse
- Veronica Howard as Gladys
- Moira Kaye as Doris
Crew
- Tony Richardson - Director
- Shelagh Delaney - Screenplay
- Tony Richardson - Screenplay
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