Melody (1971 film)
Melody is a 1971 British film about two youngsters who declare to their parents that they want to get married as soon as possible.
- Directed by Waris Hussein. Written by Andrew Berkin and Alan Parker.
Other
[edit]- Headmaster: If you're gallivanting off somewhere you can't be at school. If you can't be at school we can't teach you. And if we can't teach you, you'll end up a bunch of raving imbeciles like the generation above you.
Dialogue
[edit]- Maureen: Do you kiss boys, Muriel?
- Muriel: Sometimes, if I like him enough.
- Melody: Aren't you frightened?
- Muriel: Oh, why should I be frightened? It's quite nice when you get used to it.
- Daniel: [about Melody] I've got to dance with her.
- Ornshaw: You're mad! What do you want to do that for? She'll only say "Buzz off!" or something. She's a bit stuck up that one. This whole girl-nonsense is rubbish. Girls are a load of snotty-nosed little so-and-so's.
- Ornshaw: Some people are winners and some people are losers.
- Daniel: Who says who's gonna be what?
- Ornshaw: Don't ask me, that's all done before we get on this earth. I mean, it's him up there. He says, "You, you're gonna be red-hot at the triple jump, and you, you're gonna be bloody useless!"
- [in the school office about to get "slippered"]
- Mr. Dicks: Now, why are you here, Ornshaw?
- Ornshaw: Because you invited me, sir.
- Mr. Dicks: And why did I invite you, Ornshaw?
- Ornshaw: Well, because I couldn't translate the Latin, sir.
- Mr. Dicks: Why, Ornshaw? Why?
- Ornshaw: Because it's a bloody silly out-of-date language do you mean, sir?
- Mr. Dicks: Two was it, Ornshaw... I think we'll make it four... [trying to hold his temper] ...And why do you think it's a... silly out-of-date language, Ornshaw?
- Ornshaw: Well, because I couldn't speak to a dead Roman even if I knew the bloody lingo, sir!
- Melody: [reading from a tombstone] "Fifty years' happiness." How long's fifty years?
- Daniel: A hundred and fifty school terms, not including holidays.
- Melody: Will you love me that long?
- Daniel: [nods] Mmm-hmmm.
- Melody: I don't think you will.
- Daniel: Of course. I've loved you a whole week already, haven't I?
Taglines
[edit]- A tender love story for everyone who was ever twelve years old.
- They said they were too young to fall in love.
- Only 11 and Popping the Question Already! "Will you marry me Melody Perkins?"
- How Old is Old Enough...
- "I'll love you forever Melody - it's been a week already."
- Remember...The Fun-Filled Years Between Growing and Knowing
Cast
[edit]- Tracy Hyde as Melody Perkins
- Mark Lester as Daniel Latimer
- Jack Wild as Ornshaw
- Sheila Steafel as Mrs. Latimer
- Keith Barron as Mr. Latimer
- Roy Kinnear as Mr. Perkins
- Hilda Barry as Grandma Perkins
- Peter Walton as Fensham
- Kay Skinner as Peggy
- William Vanderpuye as O'Leary
- Camille Davies as Muriel
- Craig Marriott as Dadds
- Billy Franks as Burgess
- Tim Wylton as Mr. Fellows
- June Jago as Miss Fairfax
- Ken Jones as Mr. Dicks
External links
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- Melody (1971 film) quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- Melody (1971 film) at Allmovie