DVD
A taste of honey
Call Number
- DVD DRAMA (CEN)
Languages
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Performers
Rita Tushingham, Dora Bryan, Paul Danquah, Murray Melvin, Robert Stephens.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2016]
Physical Description
2 videodisc (100 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (illustrations ; 19 cm)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
Based on one of the most controversial plays of its time, A Taste of Honey follows a disaffected teenager finding her way amid the economic desperation of industrial Manchester, and despite her absent, self-absorbed mother.
Notes
Title from container.
Adapted from the play by Shelagh Delaney.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1961.
Special features: New, restored, 4K digital transfer ; new interviews with actors Rita Tushingham and Murray Melvin ; audio interview with director and coscreenwriter Tony Richardson from the 1962 Cannes Film Festival ; excerpt from a 1960 television interview with A taste of honey playwright Shelagh Delaney ; interview from 1998 with cinematographer Walter Lassally ; Remaking British theater: Joan Littlewood and "A taste of honey," a new piece about the film's stage origins, featuring an interview with theater scholar Kate Dorney ; Momma don't allow (1956), a Free Cinema short film by Richardson, shot by Lassally.