“Tushingham’s performance and lovely, open face are still a tonic.”
Shelagh Delaney adapted her own play for the screen to produce a landmark of the 'kitchen sink' school of drama that emerged in the wake of John Osborne's play Look Back In Anger. Rita Tushingham plays a Salford teenager who finds herself pregnant after a brief fling with a black sailor and flees her alcoholic mother. The brilliant Murray 'Rev. Runt' Melvin co-stars as her gay friend, Geoffrey. And the script is practically an urtext for Morrissey's early lyrics. Essential.
Jo feeling depressed. Geoff tries to help. Great scene from 'A Taste Of Honey' (1961). From the film by Tony Richardson. Based on the play by Shelagh Delaney. One of the best dramas to come out of the British New Wave/kitchen sink movement of the 1950's and 1960's.