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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is a 1960 British kitchen sink drama film directed by Karel Reisz and produced by Tony Richardson. [7] It is an adaptation of the 1958 novel of the same name by Alan Sillitoe, with Sillitoe himself writing the screenplay.
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 · Albert Finney, in his first starring role is Arthur Seaton, a young man in working-class Nottingham. By day, he slaves away in a dreary job at a local factory, while by night and weekend he...
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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)
- Lee Pfeiffer
Saturday Night begins in a working man's club in Nottingham. Arthur Seaton is 22 years old, and enjoying a night out with Brenda, the wife of a colleague at work. Challenged to a drinking contest, Arthur defeats "Loudmouth" before falling down the stairs drunk.
- Alan Sillitoe
- 1958
The de-facto debut of Albert Finney, at work in the Raleigh Bicycle Works in Nottingham, a landmark in the British "Angry Young Man" movement, opening , 1961, directed by Karel Reisz from Alan Sillitoe's novel and screenplay. A factory worker lives for the chance to have fun on the weekends.
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. In a Nottingham factory, Arthur Seaton works in a mindless haze, but his weekends are even more muddled due to his love affairs and his alcohol problem....
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