A taste of Honey DVD 1961 Egy csepp méz / Directed by Tony Richardson / Starring : Dora Bryan, Robert Stephens, Rita Tushingham

UPC 5999546332681

MADE IN HUNGARY

REGION 2 PAL DVD

AUDIO: ENGLISH 2.0, HUNGARIAN 2.0

SUBTITLES: HUNGARIAN

TOTAL RUNTIME: 100 MINUTES

English Summary:

A Taste of Honey is a 1961 British film adaptation of the play of the same name by Shelagh Delaney. Delaney wrote the screenplay, aided by director Tony Richardson, who had directed the play on the stage. It is an exemplar of a gritty genre of British film that has come to be called kitchen sink realism.

The story is set in a run-down, post-industrial area of Salford. Jo (played by Rita Tushingham) is a 17-year-old schoolgirl, with a self-centred, 40-year-old mother with a drinking problem, Helen (Dora Bryan). After a fall while walking past the Manchester Ship Canal, Jo meets a black sailor called Jimmy (Paul Danquah) who invites her onboard his ship to attend to her grazed knee. The two accidentally meet again and start a brief romantic relationship, but Jimmy's ship soon sails and they part. Relations between Jo and her mother become further strained when her mother courts and marries a self-made businessman, Peter Smith (Robert Stephens).

Hungarian Summary:

A fiatal, se nem szép, se nem csúnya cipőeladónő Jo, önző anyjával él együtt. Kétszer is megpróbál megszabadulni a bilincseitől, és végre szabadon élni az életét. Azonban első szerelme, miután teherbe ejti, elhagyja őt. Új barátjával, akinél először talál végre biztonságra, összeköltözik, miután anyja újabb házasságkötése után elhagyja a lakást. Anyja azonban váratlanul visszatér és viselkedésével az új barátot is elüldözi. 

Cast / Szereplők:

• Dora Bryan as Helen
• Robert Stephens as Peter Smith
• Rita Tushingham as Josephine ("Jo")
• Murray Melvin as Geoffrey Ingham
• Paul Danquah as Jimmy
• Margo Cunningham as Landlady
• Michael Bilton as Landlord
• Hazel and Stephen Blears as street urchins (uncredited)