Reviews
Melody (1971)
I met Mark Lester after seeing this 14 times in two weeks!!
I adored this film back in 1971, and played truant regularly to see it! As I was roughly the same age I identified with it very strongly. I learnt every word to every track and bought the album for £2.50 and relived the film through the record for years. I loved it so much I wrote to Clapperboard and begged them to see a clip. Months later they showed the clip where Mark and Jack were being caned in the Headmasters office,and I was over the moon.I tracked Mark Lester down after months of trying to find him. When my friend and I saw him come to the door we almost fainted. His mum made us drinks etc, and then Mark spent the rest of the afternoon teasing us and squirting paint at us!!We got a signed photo and to this day I still watch the film on tape.I've been to most of the locations where it was filmed, the trough where Melody set her fish free, the cemetery where they sat in the rain, and best of all I have a photo of me and my boyfriend ducking underneath the railings at the point where Daniel and Melody left the cemetery while the "First of May" was playing!! Sad or what??!! I saw this when I was 11, and it has remained firmly etched in my memory as the best childhood film I have ever seen, maybe because I had a huge crush on Mark Lester!!Anyhow, I'm Julie and if anyone has more to add you can be sure I'll be interested. Bye now. S.W.A.L.K