Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Based On the book by Alan Sillitoe

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is a 1960 British kitchen sink drama film directed by Karel Reisz and produced by Tony Richardson. It is an adaptation of the 1958 novel by Alan Sillitoe, with Sillitoe himself writing the screenplay. The plot concerns a young teddy boy machinist, Arthur, who spends his weekends drinking and partying, all the while having an affair with a married woman. The film is one of a series of "kitchen sink drama" films made in the late 1950s and early 1960s, as part of the British New Wave of filmmaking, from directors such as Reisz, Jack Clayton, Lindsay Anderson, John Schlesinger, and Tony Richardson, and adapted from the works of writers such as Sillitoe, John Braine, and John Osborne.

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Release date:

1960

Director:

Karel Reisz

Cast:

Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts, Hylda Baker, Norman Rossington

Genre:

Drama

Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Year page:

1960 in adaptations