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Overview

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Director:

Waris Hussein

Writer:

Alan Parker (original story and screenplay)

Contact:

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Release Date:

21 April 1971 (UK) more

Genre:

Drama | Romance more

Tagline:

A tender love story for everyone who was ever ten years old.

Plot:

Two youngsters declare to their parents that they want to get married. Not sometime in the future but as soon as possible... more | add synopsis

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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Mark Lester ... Daniel
Tracy Hyde ... Melody

Jack Wild ... Ornshaw
Colin Barrie ... Chambers
Billy Franks ... Burgess

Ashley Knight ... Stacey
Craig Marriott ... Dadds
William Vanderpuye ... O'Leary
Peter Walton ... Fensham
Camille Davis ... Muriel
Dawn Hope ... Maureen
Kay Skinner ... Peggy
Lesley Roach ... Rhoda
Sheila Steafel ... Mrs. Latimer
Roy Kinnear ... Mr. Perkins
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Additional Details

Also Known As:

S.W.A.L.K.
To Have Somebody (UK) (working title)
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Runtime:

103 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Mono


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

Mark Lester and Jack Wild had previously appeared together as Oliver Twist and the Artful Dodger in Oliver! (1968), the Oscar winning musical adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic. more

Quotes:

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." She's like that. This whole girl-nonsense is rubbish. Girls are a bunch of snot-nosed little so-and-so's.
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Movie Connections:

Referenced in Sekai no chûshin de, ai o sakebu (2004) more

Soundtrack:

Romance Theme in F more


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8 out of 8 people found the following comment useful.
Memories are made of this, 31 October 2000
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Author: Ian Stuart Ferguson from London, England

I recently unearthed a school art project of a LP album cover I had made at the tender age of 16. It was a cover made for the soundtrack to the film 'Melody (S.W.A.L.K.)'. This prompted an internet search for a copy of the album. I was overjoyed to find one and paid a fortune to get it. The original was given to my girlfriend at the time and cost only a couple of pounds. When I first saw the film that prompted the original purchase, I was 16. I was in love. And I had turned my every waking moment to my girlfriend. In short, this film mirrored my life at the time. Listening to the tracks has recaptured 'Love's Young Dream' and I would love to be able to get a VHS copy. I don't think I would be disappointed to see it again as this film is timeless.

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