Melody 1971 movie review3/15/2024 ![]() ![]() Mark’s home is middle-class aspirational with two nagging parents. It all seems almost as distant as the 1870’s never mind the 1970’s.Īfter the mammoth success of the movie musical Oliver! (1968) there was a keenness to exploit the magical spark between the two juvenile leads Mark Lester (gooey-eyed, well-mannered, diffident) and Jack Wild (a Cockney sparra with a face like a troll). A time when policeman helped you cross the road and taxi drivers wore ties. A time of school blazers and duffel bags, kicking cans down the street, teachers in black gowns, lessons in Latin and hymns at morning assembly. The kids in question are around twelve, and it’s an innocent yet rebellious world that has largely disappeared – smoking behind the bike sheds, bunking off school, zooming about on bicycles unsupervised. ![]() Set in an inner London school Melodytells of puppy love with all its excitement, embarrassment and unfathomable joy. Has childhood changed so very much over the decades? You betcha. ![]()
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