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Director
  
William Graham

Featured song
  
Something More

Genres
  
Drama, Romance Film

6/10
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Initial release
  
November 26, 1971

Running time
  
1h 32m

Art director
  
F. Paul Sylos

Honky (film) movie poster

Writer
  
Will Chaney (screenplay), Gunard Solberg (novel)

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Tagline
  
A love story...of hate

Honky is a 1971 film directed by William Graham that depicts the love story of an interracial high school couple.

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Synopsis

It depicts the love story of an interracial high school couple. The tagline for the movie was "A love story... of hate". It was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Original Song for "Something More" by Quincy Jones and Bradford Craig.

Cast

  • Brenda Sykes as Sheila Smith
  • John Neilson as Wayne "Honky" Devine
  • William Marshall as Dr. Craig Smith
  • Maia Danziger as Sharon
  • Marion Ross as Mrs. Divine
  • John Lasell as Archer Divine
  • Lincoln Kilpatrick as Fabulous Traveling Shoes
  • Jake Mannion and Harriet Gardiner of H.W.A also featured as themselves.

    • Reviews

    The film received mixed reviews. The New York Times writer Howard Thompson began his review by saying "Honky is awful".

    TV Guide called the film ""Socially relevant" at the time, now just an overblown, cliched anachronism, HONKY details an interracial relationship between young white man Nielson and rich black girl Sykes."

    References

    Honky (film) Wikipedia
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