
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.... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
Leave your thoughts about Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.
| New TimesLuke Y. ThompsonNot much fun, but an archetype of its genre. |
| Urban CinefileAndrew L. UrbanIt's in black and white, or rather a grimy English factory grey, but Albert Finney is superbly colourful as Arthur, a defiant and raging young bull of a man, suffocating in a remorseless, working class purgatory |
| Monthly Film BulletinMFB CriticsIt is never tied to stage precedents; and, unlike them, it keeps entirely within its world, introducing no characters to tell its audience what to think but making its points through firm writing and close observation. |
| User ReviewAndy CThe early 60s British Social Realist films are one major deficiency in my film education. So, I've decided to check out some of these films. If "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" is any indication, I'm going to like these movies. It's strikingly fresh and edgy even by today's standards, not to mention by the standards of the early 60s. |
| User ReviewNick SWonderful film with an excellent performance from Albert Finney. A strong character study with subject matter which was quite brave for its time. |
| User ReviewGeorge Canother fantastic stab at northern life in the 50's, morrissey has been influenced but alot of the values the film clearly depicts , star performance from albert finney |
| User ReviewAlison GThe book is superb and this is an excellent adaptation. |
| User ReviewChris .I love this film. It was filmed in my home city Nottingham, seeing the locations featured in the film, that no longer exsist, is fascinating. Although Albert Finney is excellant, I thnk that it's Hylda Baker that steals the film as his Aunt who performs the abortion on Rachel Roberts charachter. Fantastic Film, although I can't help but wonder what kind of fil it would have been had Diana Dors starred in it - she was meant to play the charachter played by Rachel Roberts. |
| User ReviewRachael HFantastic, like don't make films like this anymore! |
| User ReviewRich JPerhaps my favourite actor of all time. I have a real soft spot for this film, reminds me of my Dad - not for the fact he used to play as hard as Finney's character (far from it) but the era this film is set. It's beautifully captured and harkens that change in British cinema from kitchen table to kitchen sink. |