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    Melody (1971)

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    Oliver! boys Jack Wild and Mark Lester are now bigger and older and star in this amusing and delightful film – filled with images of beauty and innocence – about two 10-year-olds who create an uproar for their parents when they decide they want to get married as soon as possible.

    Melody isn’t burdened with too much plot: Students, boys and girls, run about the halls of a well-preserved old grammar school in South London, seldom seen in classrooms and often playing pranks on each other – and occasionally on a teacher. The boys play their games on a lovely old campus while the girls are more interested in the latest pop singer than in their male classmates.

    Things heat up slightly with a bond formed between Ornshaw (Jack Wild) and Daniel Latimer (Mark Lester). Ornshaw is a toughie, an orphan living with his grandfather. He has little more than bus fare in his pocket and usually walks to and from school to save that for luxuries.

    Danny is the rich boy who takes a taxi home if his shallow, social-climbing mother (Sheila Steafel) and indifferent father (Keith Barron) fail to fetch him. Shy but not a goody-goody, he needs a chum. Ornshaw, unimpressed by Danny’s affluence, fills the bill.

    The story reaches boiling point when Danny and Melody Perkins (Tracy Hyde) become an item, separating the friends. it finally boils over in a wild, hilariously funny student revolution.

    David Puttnam’s first production – from Alan Parker’s first script – was first released as Melody, then swiftly retitled S.W.A.L.K, as in “Sealed with a Loving Kiss”.

    Puttnam had bought the rights to a handful of songs by The Bee Gees which had to be incorporated into a story.

    So Parker came up with this tale of two kids at a south London comprehensive whose friendship is tested when a pretty girl comes into their social orbit.

    Danny (Daniel) Latimer
    Mark Lester 
    Melody Perkins 

    Tracy Hyde
    Ornshaw

    Jack Wild
    Chambers

    Colin Barrie
    Muriel

    Camille Davis
    Burgess

    Billy Franks 
    Stacey

    Ashley Knight
    Dadds

    Craig Marriott
    O’Leary

    William Vanderpuye
    Fensham

    Peter Walton
    Maureen

    Dawn Hope
    Peggy

    Kay Skinner
    Rhoda

    Lesley Roach
    Mrs Latimer 

    Sheila Steafel
    Mr Latimer
    Keith Barron
    Mr Perkins
    Roy Kinnear 
    Mrs Perkins

    Kate Williams 
    Grandma Perkins

    Hilda Barry
    Headmaster

    James Cossins 
    Mr Dicks 

    Ken Jones 
    Miss Fairfax

    June Jago
    Miss Dimkins 

    June Ellis
    Mr Fellows

    Tim Wylton 
    Betty

    Petal Young
    George

    Robin Hunter

    Director
    Waris Hussein

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