Albert Finney
Arthur Seaton
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A 1960 British kitchen sink drama film about a rebellious machinist, Arthur, who has affairs and drinks on weekends. The film is based on a novel by Alan Sillitoe and was part of the British New Wave of filmmaking.
A novel by Alan Sillitoe about a rebellious factory worker in Nottingham, adapted into a film and a play. Learn about the plot, the cultural references, the critical reception and the cast of the novel.
- Alan Sillitoe
- 1958
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning: Directed by Karel Reisz. With Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts, Hylda Baker. A rebellious, hard-living factory worker juggles relationships with two women, one of whom is married to another man but pregnant with his child.
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- Drama, Romance
- Karel Reisz
- 1961-04-03
Mar 8, 2012 · Watch the British film that launched the "kitchen sink" and "angry young man" genre, starring Albert Finney as a rebellious working-class man. The video features jazz music and a Monkees song as soundtrack.
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, British film drama, released in 1960, that is one of the best of the Angry Young Men movies that emanated from England in the late 1950s and ’60s.
In his first starring role, Albert Finney played a charismatic man who seems destined to follow in his parents’ and grandparents’ footsteps by pursuing a mundane, working-class lifestyle. Employed as a lathe operator in a Midlands factory, Finney’s Arthur Seaton lives for the weekend, when he drinks and womanizes to excess. However, when he has an affair with a coworker’s wife, he finds himself facing decisions he never expected to have to make.
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•Studio: Continental Distributing
•Director: Karel Reisz
•Producer: Tony Richardson
•Writer: Allan Sillitoe
•Music: John Dankworth
•Running time: 89 minutes
•Albert Finney (Arthur Seaton)
•Shirley Anne Field (Doreen)
•Rachel Roberts (Brenda)
•Hylda Baker (Aunt Ada)
A 1960 British film drama starring Albert Finney as a rebellious factory worker who challenges the status quo. Based on a novel by Alan Sillitoe, the film is a classic of the Angry Young Men movement in literature and cinema.
- Lee Pfeiffer
A classic British novel about Arthur Seaton, a rebellious worker in a Nottingham cycle factory. He challenges authority, drinks, and seeks adventure on Saturday night, but faces the consequences on Sunday morning.
Mar 29, 2010 · Saturday Night And Sunday Morning (Karel Reisz, UK, 1960) Movie trailer.
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