Portland Public Library

A taste of honey, Bryanston presents ; a Woodfall film ; screenplay by Shelagh Delaney and Tony Richardson ; produced and directed by Tony Richardson

Title from title frameAdapted from the play by Shelagh DelaneyOriginally released as a motion picture in 1961Special features on disc one: new, restored, 4K digital transfer; audio interview with director and coscreenwriter Tony Richardson from the 1962 Cannes Film Festival; "Momma don't allow" (1956), a Free Cinema short film by Richardson and shot by Lassally; Disc two: The actors (interviews with actors Rita Tushingham and Murray Melvin, recorded by Criterion in 2016); excerpt from a 1960 television interview with playwright Shelagh Delaney on the series Close-Up; 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; booklet essay by film scholar Colin MacCabe

Midwest Tape

black and white

monaural

Music, John Addison ; art director, Ralph Brinton ; director of photography, Walter Lasally ; editor, Antony Gibbs ; wardrobe, Sophie Devine, Barbara Gillett

other

DVD edition.Two-DVD special edition.

Classroom use may be subject to licensing restrictions

9781681431956

videodisc

Dora Bryan, Robert Stephens, Rita Tushingham, Murray Melvin, Paul Danquah

2 videodiscs (100 min.), DVD video, sound, black and white, 4 3/4 in. +, 1 folded sheet (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)

sound on medium

videodisc

(OCoLC)953420793

DVD; region 1, NTSC, region 1; widescreen 1.66:1 presentation; Dolby digital 1.0

715515184816

CC2668D -- The Criterion CollectionCC2668D-1 -- The Criterion CollectionCC2668D-2 -- The Criterion CollectionCC2668DDVD -- The Criterion Collection

DVD