Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)

User Rating:

7.6/10   

Director:

Karel Reisz

Writers:

Alan Sillitoe (novel)
Alan Sillitoe (screenplay)

Release Date:

3 April 1961 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Tagline:

Saturday night you have your fling at life...and Sunday morning you face up to it!

Plot:

A rebellious, hard-living factory worker juggles relationships with two women, one of whom is married to another man but pregnant with his child.

Plot Keywords:

Abortion | Day In Title | Kitchen Sink Realism | Based On Novel | Independent Film

Awards:

Won 3 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 4 wins & 3 nominations

Cast

Albert Finney	...	Arthur Seaton
Shirley Anne Field	...	Doreen
Rachel Roberts	...	Brenda
Hylda Baker	...	Aunt Ada
Norman Rossington	...	Bert
Bryan Pringle	...	Jack
Robert Cawdron	...	Robboe
Edna Morris	...	Mrs. Bull
Elsie Wagstaff	...	Mrs. Seaton
Frank Pettitt	...	Mr. Seaton
Avis Bunnage	...	Blousy Woman
Colin Blakely	...	Loudmouth
Irene Richmond	...	Doreen's Mother
Louise Dunn	...	Betty
Anne Blake	...	Civil Defence Officer

Runtime:

89 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Hong Kong:I | UK:PG (re-rating) | UK:X (original rating) | Canada:14+ (Ontario) | Finland:K-16

Filming Locations:

ABC Cinema, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK

Company:

Woodfall Film Productions

Trivia:

The film had to go through some dialogue changes before release, mainly owing to the swear words in the original script. Although 'bastards', 'bloody', and 'bleedin' were allowed the censors refused to pass 'sod', 'christ' and 'bogger' (the latter being a script substitution for 'bugger').

Quotes:

Bert: Did you get anywhere?
Arthur Seaton: No, you?
Bert: Nah, that Betty's barmy, she wouldn't le me get near her. Tell you, you've got to marry them these days before you get 'owt.
Arthur Seaton: Not if they're already married.

Movie Connections:

References Oklahoma! (1955)

Soundtrack:

Why Not?

Matching the mood of the times, this film transformed British cinema and was much imitated...

English history has been full of rebel heroes but the screen tradition really came to fruition during the late Fifties and early Sixties when England's postwar generation was in revolt…

In the theater, this revolt took the form of the "kitchen sink drama" and the era of the Angry Young Men… In the movie industry, it was the era of "Free Cinema," an attempt by young filmmakers to break away from established subjects and standard treatments…

This raw melodrama deals with Arthur Seaton (Finney), a working class young man who rejects the misery and grind of his home and factory, but whose only possible rebellion takes the form of a cynicism towards authority and a cheerful indulgence in sexual encounters with various ladies of the town… His rebellion, though limited, is nevertheless genuine and the film's situation in a working class milieu is, for the habitually middle and upper class conscious British cinema, a much needed step forward...