Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

  • Director: Karel Reisz
  • Countries of origin: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • Release date: April 3, 1961
  • Runtime: 1 hour 29 minutes
  • Aspect ratio: 1.66 : 1
  • Also known as: Samstagnacht bis Sonntagmorgen
  • "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" is a feature film directed by Karel Reisz and starring Albert Finney , Rachel Roberts , Shirley Anne Field and more.
    The film tells the story of the prodigal son Arthur who spent most of his wages on drinking, gambling and women, which resulted in the pregnancy of married woman Brenda. Arthur suddenly woke up after being beaten by Brenda's husband   . The film was released in the UK on November 1, 1960.

    Details

    • Release date April 3, 1961
    • Filming locations Raleigh Bicycle Works, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
    • Production companies Woodfall Film Productions

    Box office

    Budget

    £100,000 (estimated)

    Gross worldwide

    $370

    Movie reviews

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    • By Laverna 2022-09-08 13:49:46

      "The Prodigal Son" in "The Director's Talk"

      The film is based on the novel of the same name by Alan Sillito, a well-known British writer of "Angry Youth". Sillito was born in a family of tanners in Nottinghamshire, central England, and grew up in a slum. He is too familiar with the poverty and customs of his hometown, and knows too much about the lives, thoughts and emotions of the workers. His novel about workers' life won the Writers Club's Best Debut Award in 1958. Director Karel Reitz is one of the advocates...

    • By Kiarra 2022-07-04 15:57:04

      "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" Screenplay

      "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" Screenplay

      Text / [UK] Ai Silito

      Translation / Yu Hang

      This is the workshop of a huge manufacturing plant in Nottingham - the machine shop, where various small parts for bicycles are being made on various lathes - crankshaft machines, drill presses, hand presses and polishers. Men in overalls and women in headscarves are working by the machines. Some are sitting,...

    • By Emmanuel 2022-07-04 15:49:51

      On the Prodigal Son and the British Free Film Movement

      At this time, the film has been very "industrialized" from the lens, the entire composition is a system, and the artistic conception and connotation to be expressed are very clear and mature. The background and characteristics are the same as other representative works of the British Free Film Movement. The realist images are representative, the stories all take place in an industrial city, and black and white film is deliberately selected. The protagonist is set very...

    • By Isac 2022-07-04 15:36:55

      60's pretty ruffian

         The young Alpert Finney did not have the British-style glamorous face of Grant, but he had a tall and strong body. The thick muscles were rampant, and the haircuts that were taken care of from time to time in the film formed a powerful sexual temptation. This The cynical ruffian exudes a sense of violence and beauty all over his body. He has an insight into the essence of work and life. The ants, whose marriage is the two most important tasks in their lives, sneered at each other, but...

    • By Louisa 2022-07-04 14:47:58

      British Free Films

      The British Free Film Movement emphasized the freedom of the creator's point of view, the freedom from various restrictions, and the attention to social issues. The film did not evaluate the male protagonist who lived a disorderly life in the traditional sense. The work tries its best to squander the cyclic life in pursuit of excitement to show a social group with an empty heart. The film adds a lot of the protagonist's views on things (inner monologue or dialogue), showing the...

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    • By Avis 2023-09-29 14:10:42

      In the process of watching, the figures of the two friends kept superimposing on the protagonist. Albert Finney used to be handsome, too, although he was already showing signs of being...

    • By Patsy 2023-09-14 00:46:21

      The Smiths' 1986 album The Queen Is Dead feature the line "Them was rotten days" said by Aunt Ada. Also the line by Doreen "I want to go where there's life and there's people" inspired the song "There Is A Light That Never" Goes Out" ("I want to see people and I want to see...

    • By Eldridge 2023-09-11 07:46:48

      Cheating, drinking, fighting, mischievous, this Nottinghamshire machine tool Arthur is a London Alfie living in another black and white space. Compared with the latter's arrogance and irresponsibility, Arthur, who also magnifies his "self", will still dictate some philosophical and social insights. The characters created by the British "New Wave" through popular plots may have been somewhat fresh back then, but this innovation is just the establishment of another...

    • By Jalyn 2023-09-04 10:48:10

      British New Wave. It is closer to the French New Wave and the French poetic realism of the 30s in terms of perception, combining the avant-garde audio-visual language of the former (short and fast editing, the composition of extreme angles and the use of subjective shots) and the pessimistic emotional quality of the latter's emptiness and confusion. Pioneering lies in the use of novel formats to tell topics that are acceptable to young audiences. Like the wave of new films in other countries at...

    • By Nicole 2023-08-30 23:27:36

      This is director Carrell Reitz's first feature-length film. The director used a subjective lens to truly express the image of the prodigal son living in the British lower class on the screen, which left a deep impression on the audience. The film was praised as The representative work of the British "freedom film", its sharp and comedic concept makes people amazed; the starring Albert Finney is also known as "the angry youth in the kitchen...

    Movie plot

    Every Saturday night, Arthur ( Albert Finney ) spends most of his salary on drinking, playing cards and women while spending time in bars or having an affair with married Brenda ( Rachel Roberts ) . No one could dissuade him. At the same time, Arthur and the girl Doreen ( Shirley Anne Field ) fall in love at first sight, and they are inseparable, but they can't get rid of Brenda's entanglement. Until one day, Brenda was pregnant,...
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    "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" is an early representative work of British angry youth and one of the representative works of the British New Wave in the 1960s. It reflects youth and rebellion and promotes the development of British New Wave films. Although this film is not a documentary, it continues the spirit of British free film. Through the image of the protagonist Arthur, the director depicts the weekend life of British...
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    Movie quotes

    • Brenda: Hey Arthur, what a time we had last night.

      Arthur Seaton: It seems years... aye you're lovely Brenda.

    • Arthur Seaton: Pour us some more tea duck, it's thirsty work falling down stairs.

      Brenda: Two ain't it.

      Arthur Seaton: You're good to me Brenda, love, and don't think I don't appreciate it.

    • Arthur Seaton: I dunno, work next week. I'll be hard at it, sweating me guts out at that lathe. It's a hard life if you don't weaken.