A movie way, way, way before its time, Tony Richardson’s A Taste of Honey tells the story of a young white English woman (Rita Tushingham) who has an out-of-wedlock baby with a black sailor, and her gay roommate (Murray Melvin) is determined to be the stand-in father. In 1962. A classic of British “kitchen sink realism,” it dealt with homosexuality and interracial relationships with a sensitivity no American film would approach for decades. It won a host of British Academy Awards.
