Sheila, an affluent black teenager, begins dating working class white teen Wayne, and asks him for help to sell a kilo of marijuana.
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Title: Honky (1971)
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| Brenda Sykes | ... | Sheila Smith | |
| John Neilson | ... | Wayne 'Honky' Divine | |
| Maia Danziger | ... | Sharon | |
| Lincoln Kilpatrick | ... | Fabulous Traveling Shoes | |
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John Lasell | ... | Archer Divine |
| William Marshall | ... | Dr. Craig Smith | |
| John Fiedler | |||
| Elliott Street | |||
| Matt Clark | |||
| Ivor Francis | |||
| Marion Ross | ... | Mrs. Divine | |
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Paul Sorensen | ... | (as Paul Sorenson) |
| Tony Colti | |||
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Jeff Nauser | ||
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Amentha Dymally | ... | Mrs. Smith |
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Sheila, an affluent black teenager, begins dating working class white teen Wayne, and asks him for help to sell a kilo of marijuana.
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A love story...of hateParents Guide:
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Lyrics by Bradford Craig
Music by Quincy Jones
Sung by Carlton Dinnall
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26 November 1971 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Kansas City, Missouri, USACompany Credits
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In a more enlightened age when interracial relationships are widely accepted, films like HONKY are pretty much abandoned by relevance and exist primarily as a time capsule. This is, nonetheless, a fairly decent 20th century American love story wherein the all-American blond-haired white boy finds himself quite happy in the loving arms of a spirited young ebony goddess. Predictable tensions ensue, and culminate in a surprisingly bitter resolve.
Being that this film was made in a time of social tumult and radical change in America, it probably had a fair amount of appeal to younger audiences(there is quite a bit of a "flower child" element here...in one scene, a boy on a bridge pelts swimming ducks with rocks. Our leading lady touches him softly, saying "you'd better learn how to love, boy-child". We then see him tossing picked flowers into the water- LOL!)
This is not at all a "blaxploitation" item, as its title and time-period might lead some to believe. Still, HONKY is a fairly worthy low-budget romance/drama, and though it is(or at least...*was*) a rather exploitive picture, it approaches its subject matter with at least some degree of sensitivity and purpose.
4.5/10...see also the largely neglected but groundbreaking 60s picture "ONE POTATO, TWO POTATO" which demonstrates a far more proficient handling of similar issues.