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Title: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
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| Albert Finney | ... | Arthur Seaton | |
| Shirley Anne Field | ... | Doreen | |
| Rachel Roberts | ... | Brenda | |
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Hylda Baker | ... | Aunt Ada |
| Norman Rossington | ... | Bert | |
| Bryan Pringle | ... | Jack | |
| Robert Cawdron | ... | Robboe | |
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Edna Morris | ... | Mrs. Bull |
| Elsie Wagstaff | ... | Mrs. Seaton (as Elsie Wagstaffe) | |
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Frank Pettitt | ... | Mr. Seaton |
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Avis Bunnage | ... | Blousy Woman |
| Colin Blakely | ... | Loudmouth (as Colin Blakeley) | |
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Irene Richmond | ... | Doreen's Mother |
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Louise Dunn | ... | Betty |
| Anne Blake | ... | Civil Defence Officer | |
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Arthur, one of Britain's angry young men of the 1960s, is a hardworking factory worker who slaves all week at his mindless job for his modest wages. Come Saturday night, he's off to the pub for a loud and rowdy beer session. With him is Brenda, his girlfriend of the moment. Married to a fellow worker, she is nonetheless captivated by his rugged good looks and his devil-may-care attitude. Soon a new love interest Doreen enters and a week later, Brenda announces she's pregnant. She tells Arthur she needs money for an abortion, and Arthur promises to pay for it. By this time, his relationship with Doreen has ripened and Brenda, hearing of it, confronts him. He denies everything, but it's obvious that their affair is all but over. Written by alfiehitchie
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factory worker | nottingham england | british new wave | kitchen sink realism | based on novel |Taglines:
Saturday night you have your fling at life...and Sunday morning you face up to it! See more »Parents Guide:
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Arthur Seaton: Nine hundred and fifty four, nine hundred and fifty bloody five. Another few more and that's the lot for a Friday.
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(uncredited)
Written by Leslie Stuart
Sung by the customers in the bar
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When a drunken man throws a brick through the undertaker's window the sound of breaking glass begins before the bricks hits the window. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Arthur Seaton: Nine hundred and fifty four, nine hundred and fifty bloody five. Another few more and that's the lot for a Friday.
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Lily of Laguna(uncredited)
Written by Leslie Stuart
Sung by the customers in the bar
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Country:
UKLanguage:
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3 April 1961 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning See more »Filming Locations:
Twickenham Film Studios, St Margarets, Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK See more »Edit
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GBP100,000 (estimated)Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$370Company Credits
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Albert Finney's first film is set in the North of England in the late 1950s. Times are changing as living standards rise quickly and social attitudes become more flexible - or are they? Whereby, of course, hangs the film. Arthur Seaton is out for a good time within the confines of his life and the film foreshadows attitudes that became prevalent in later decades.
Shot in black and white, probably to give a realstic feel, and the scenes at the fairground are particularly good even today.
I spotted a street and pub near to my home in London used as one of the night exteriors, so although some must have been shot in the grim North, parts of London stood in for Nottingham.
The film is short, pithy and refreshing and even if the central character isn't that nice a guy, your sympathy is with him. British cinema at its best. 8 out of 10 from me.