A key film of the British New Wave Saturday Night And Sunday Morning was a great box-office success - audiences were thrilled by its anti-establishment energy the gritty realism of its setting and most of all by a working-class hero of a fresh and outspoken kind. Based on Alan Sillitoe's largely autobiographical novel the film is set in the grim industrial streets and factories of Nottingham where Arthur Seaton spends his days at a factory bench his Saturday evenings in the local pubs and his Saturday nights with Brenda (Rachel Roberts) wife of a fellow factory worker.... Played by Albert Finney with an irresistable animal vitality Arthur is anti-authority (Don't let the bastards grind you down) and unashamedly amoral (What I'm out for is a good time. All the rest is propoganda). With powerful central performances cracking dialogue by Sillitoe and a superb jazz score by Johnny Dankworth Saturday Night And Sunday Morning still stands as a vibrant modern classic. [show more]
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Director Karel Reisz's adaptation of Alan Sillitoe's novel about a hard-living factory worker and the married woman he seduces. Arthur Seaton (Albert Finney) is a young man filled with a rage perhaps even he doesn't fully understand. Working in the tough environment of a Nottingham factory, he compensates for the drudgery and discipline of his weekday life with weekends spent drinking and womanising. His affair with a fellow factory worker's wife, Brenda (Rachel Roberts), seems especially ill-advised - particularly when Brenda informs him that she is pregnant with his child. With abortion illegal at the time, Arthur and Brenda face a difficult dilemma. Will Arthur face up to the kind of domestic responsibilities he openly scorns in his own parents, or run harder than ever?
Please note this is a region B Blu-ray and will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play. In the industrial streets and factories of Nottingham, the hard-living Arthur Seaton (Albert Finney, Tom Jones) spends his days at the factory bench, his evenings in the local pubs and his nights in the arms of Brenda (Rachel Roberts, This Sporting Life), the wife of a fellow factory worker. But when he meets Doreen (Shirley Anne Field, Alfie) he is forced to reconsider his devil-may-care attitude. Based on the Alan Sillitoe's largely autobiographical novel, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was a huge box-office success for the independent Woodfall Film Productions. Audiences were thrilled with its anti-establishment energy, gritty realism and outspoken working-class hero, and the film went to win three BAFTAs, including Best British Film and Most Promising Newcomer for Albert Finney.
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