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- Directed by Karel Reisz • 1960 • United Kingdom Starring Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts Adapted by Alan Sillitoe from his own influential debut novel, this quintessential kitchen-sink drama was one of the first films to give voice to the discontent of Britain’s working class.
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Date: 1960. Director: Karel Reisz. Production Company: Woodfall Film Productions. Stars: Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts, Hylda Baker, Norman Rossington, Bryan Pringle. Location (s): London, Middlesex, Nottinghamshire. Region (s): London R-S, Midlands, South East R-Z.
Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts. Running time. 89 minutes. Albert Finney’s powerhouse performance as a Nottingham factory worker changed British screen acting, just as Karel Reisz’s incisive and authentic film changed British cinema.
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 by Alan Sillitoe, with Sillitoe himself writing the screenplay.
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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)
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Mar 27, 2017 · That play was adapted for the screen by Tony Richardson, with Richard Burton in the lead role, in 1959. The following year, Richardson produced Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, which earned numerous awards and made a star of Albert Finney.
Directed by Karel Reisz • 1960 • United Kingdom. Starring Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts. Adapted by Alan Sillitoe from his own influential debut novel, this quintessential kitchen-sink drama was one of the first films to give voice to the discontent of Britain’s working class.
Oct 2, 2002 · Stars: Albert Finney, Rachel Roberts, Sally Anne Field, Bryan Pringle, Hylda Baker, Norman Rossington, Elsie Wagstaff. Genre: Drama. Length: 88 minutes. Original: 1960. Cinema: 11 October...
