Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) Movie Overview

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is a 1960 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Alan Sillitoe. Sillitoe wrote the screenplay adaptation and the film was directed by Karel Reisz. Arthur Seaton, a young machinist at a Nottingham factory, is having an affair with Brenda, the wife of an older co-worker. He also has a relationship with Doreen, a woman closer to his own age. When Brenda gets pregnant, Arthur asks his aunt for advice on aborting the child. Brenda’s husband discovers the affair, and his brother (a burly soldier) and a fellow soldier give Arthur a vicious beating. After recovering, Arthur returns to work, and the film ends on an ambiguous note, with Arthur and Doreen discussing marriage and the prospect of a new home. The film is considered to be the first of the social-realist or “kitchen sink dramas” of the 1960s. Others include Tony Richardson’s (a producer on this film) The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (from Alan Sillitoe’s 1959 collection of short stories of the same name) and A Taste of Honey; and John Schlesinger’s A Kind of Loving and Billy Liar. It was at the forefront of the British New Wave, films dealing with working class issues in a seri… Source

• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Movie Details
• Director: Karel Reisz
• Tagline: Saturday night you have your fling at life…and Sunday morning you face up to it!
• Country: UK
• Run Time: 89 min
• Genre: Drama , Romance

• Cast Overview
• Albert Finney as Arthur Seaton
• Shirley Anne Field as Doreen
• Rachel Roberts as Brenda
• Hylda Baker as Aunt Ada
• Norman Rossington as Bert
• Bryan Pringle as Jack

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Movie Details from Imdb

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 goo… Source

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