Melody (1971 film)

Melody is a 1971 British film about "puppy love". A "tween-age" boy falls in love with a "tween-age" girl. It is 1970. The expression "tween" is not in vogue yet, but corporal punishment is.
 * ''Directed by Waris Hussein. Written by Andrew Berkin and Alan Parker.

Dialogue

 * 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 wants to dance with Melody]
 * Daniel: 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 * Ornshaw: Because it's a bloody silly out-of-date language do you mean, sir?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 silly out-of-date language, Ornshaw?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?

Cast

 * 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