A Taste of Honey

A Taste of Honey

100 mins | Drama | Oct. 1, 1961

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.

A Taste of Honey

100 mins | Drama | Oct. 1, 1961

A Taste of Honey
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.
IMDb rating 7.4
Producers Woodfall Film Productions
Original title A Taste of Honey
Directors Peter Yates, Tony Richardson
Writers Tony Richardson, Shelagh Delaney

Cast

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