Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Movie Review 1960

This "kitchen sink" drama finds the 23-year-old Finney in star form as working-class Arthur Seaton, who's devoted to good times, spending his weekends with boozing, brawling, and willing women. He's having an affair with the older, married Brenda (Roberts) and pursuing the strictly moral Doreen (Field), who refuses to sleep with him without a commitment. Arthur thinks he's falling in love and is (eventually) ready for marriage but not without complications and not before warning Doreen that he's unlikely to completely change his carefree ways. Reisz's first feature film; Sillitoe adapted from his novel. Finney was voted the most promising newcomer at the British Academy's (BAFTA) awards.

Distribution

Hallmark Home Entertainment, 6100 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 1400, Los Angeles, CA 90048, Phone: (213)634-3000, Fax: (213)549-3760, Remarks: Lainie Handelman, Mktg.

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 98 minutes.
Originally from British.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Marriage, Pregnant Pauses, Romantic Triangles

Screenplay

Alan Sillitoe

Cast

Albert Finney, Rachel Roberts, Shirley Anne Field, Bryan Pringle, Norman Rossington, Hylda Baker, Robert Cowdra, Elsie Wagstaff, Frank Pettitt

Cinematography

Freddie Francis

Director

Karel Reisz

Music

John Dankworth

Producer

Tony Richardson, Woodfall Productions

Awards

British Acad. 1960: Actress (Roberts), Film; Natl. Bd. of Review 1961: Actor (Finney).