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- BFI identifier47466
- Date1961 (Release)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisScreen adaptation of the play by Shelagh Delaney. A `Kitchen sink' drama set in Salford, about a young girl who, after leaving home and her selfish, sluttish mother, becomes pregnant after a short liaison with a black sailor who then departs. She befriends a gentle, kind-hearted gay man and sets up home with him. (Synopsis) Story of relationships and episodes in the life of a young Salford girl who is left by her widowed mother and expects a baby from a coloured seaman who has sailed away. From the play by Shelagh Delaney. (Synopsis)
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- Subject
- CreditsDirector: Tony Richardson
Production Company: Woodfall Film Productions
Producer: Tony Richardson
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Title
A Taste of Honey (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/AFF0-33E8-4243-D436-E595-5Category
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
This work is available to view in the Mediatheque at BFI Southbank.
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- Film / Video
35mm BW Positive - Acetate - Combined - Viewing
35mm BW Positive - Safety - Combined - Viewing
view all - Scripts / DocumentsMusic Cue Sheet (Special Collections) - MUS-1526
Script - Original story: Based on the play by Shelagh Delaney - SCR-17069
Script - Original story: Based on the play by Shelagh Delaney - SCR-17070
Script - Original story: Based on the play by Shelagh Delaney - SCR-17071
Ephemera: publicity - PBS-47466
Small and medium pressbooks held. Music Cue Sheet held. See PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION COMPANY MATERIAL collection for example of publicity.
view all - Posters / DesignsPoster: film - landscape format, newspaper cuttings version - PD-20553
Poster: film - landscape format - PD-20554
Poster: film - landscape format - PD-20555
Poster: film - SPD-105650
view all - StillsPhotograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00n-yk6
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00n-yk7
Photograph: print - Portrait - Black and White - bfi-00m-nn5
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00m-nn4
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00m-nn3
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- Books
- Digital documentsBFI Southbank Programme Notes April 2018
BFI Southbank Programme Notes April 2018
available to view in BFI Reuben Library
- +A Taste of Honey
Work - 47466 - 1961 (Release)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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