A Taste of Honey Blu-ray

Release Year: 1961

Runtime: 100 min

Director: Tony Richardson

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

Studios: Woodfall Film Productions

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.

Special Features:

New, restored, 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

New interviews with actors Rita Tushingham and Murray Melvin

Audio interview with director and screenwriter 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: John 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

PLUS: An essay by film scholar Colin MacCabe

Technical Specifications:

• 4K digital transfer
• uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• 1.66:1 aspect ratio