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.

• 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.

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Ornshaw: Because it's a bloody silly out-of-date language do you mean, sir?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 silly out-of-date language, Ornshaw?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?

• 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

• 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

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