This article was amended on saturday october 25 2008. Saturday night and sunday morning was preceded by film adaptations of look back in anger 1958 and john braines room at the top 1959 and followed by movie versions of stan barstows a kind of loving 1962, sillitoes the loneliness of the long distance runner 1962, and david storeys this sporting life 1963, among many others. In the industrial streets and factories of nottingham, the hardliving arthur seaton albert finney, tom jones spends his days at the factory bench, his evenings in the local pubs and his nights in the arms of brenda rachel roberts, this sporting life, the wife of a fellow factory worker. Saturday night and sunday morning trailer 1961 director. Marty stuart and his fabulous superlatives saturday. Arthur seaton albert finney, stuck in a meaningless job with little hope for advancement beyond his. A film guide that looks at saturday night and sunday morning 1960, exploring its key topics and themes through informal discussion. Saturday night and sunday morning awards and nominations.
With tony richardson opting to coproduce saturday night and sunday. The series premiered on september 23, 1961, and ran until october 1978, spawning many imitators. Think of this thread as a shortened version of the film. Le film saturday night and sunday morning 1960 vostfr. It was a dark and stormy night as i drove down river street next to the trolley tracks into milton. Regarded by most critics as sillitoes best novel, saturday night and sunday morning has been frequently read as a proletarian version of kingsley amis lucky jim 1954, and sillitoe himself. The title is a reference to the gig happening on a saturday night and hugh announcing his departure the following day. Saturday night and sunday morning visiting some of the. Saturday night and sunday morning holds one principally as the portrait of a dimly dawning conscience, a boyintoman metamorphosis too consistently honest to permit false ironies or heroics.
The main theme that this essay will focus on however is gender. Full movie, english, classic film watchfree, cowboyfilm duration. Saturday night and sunday morning 1961 rotten tomatoes. The opening credits of saturday night and sunday morning show the raleigh cycle workers going home along faraday road. A hard drinking culture where following the monotony of a week in factorymanual work. Jul 25, 2019 saturday night and sunday morning is still often regarded as one of the most important british films of the early sixties, one that captured the mood of the times and displayed a new frankness toward sex on the screen certain theatres in england refused to exhibit the film when it was first released. Saturday night and sunday morning film movie plot and. Its an adaptation of alan sillitoes 1958 novel which its director karel reisz carries to the screen with authenticity by shooting on location in and around nottingham production plants and public houses. Saturday night and sunday morning opening scene youtube. Saturday night and sunday morning 1960 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Saturday night and sunday morning es una pelicula dirigida por karel reisz. Switzerland july 1961 locarno film festival canada 10 july 1961.
Le film saturday night and sunday morning 1960 vostfr admin 20170408t21. This was the first television program to exclusively broadcast relatively recent theatrical films on us network television. Albert finneys powerhouse performance as a nottingham factory worker changed british screen acting, just as karel reiszs incisive and authentic film changed. A rebellious, hardliving factory worker juggles relationships with two women, one of whom is married to another man but pregnant with his child. Saturday night and sunday morning 1963 case study the. Added to critical support at the time and its massive and unexpected box office success, it has some claim to be the most significant of the films of this period. By this time, nbc had added a second movie night, monday, to its primetime schedule. Saturday night and sunday morning 1960 karel reisz youtube. A remarkable and influential drama that captures the despair of working class life, saturday night and sunday morning is superbly enacted and one of the best ofbritains angry young men dramas of the 60s. Saturday night and sunday morning 1960 is the new wave film which has most preserved its reputation with modern critics. Saturday night and sunday morning turner classic movies. September 23, 1961nbc saturday night at the movies.
An unwanted pregnancy is a key theme of some of the new wave films, and in this sequence brenda rachel roberts needs some help from. 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. For it was saturday night, the best and bingiest gladtime of the week, one of the fiftytwo holidays in the slowturning big wheel of the year, a violent preamble to a prostrate sabbath. Albert finney, hylda baker, shirley ann field, norman rossington, rachel roberts, shirley anne field show embed code. The film saturday night and sunday morning reisz, 1960 was filmed and set in 1963 nottingham. Piled up passions were exploded on saturday night, and the effect of a weeks monotonous graft in the factory was swilled out of your system in a burst of.
Saturday night and sunday morning lobby card for saturday night and sunday morning 1960, starring albert finney. The gritty cinematography and coarse characterizations of saturday night and sunday morning are an exciting jolt, but the film s central plot a hotheaded factory worker albert finney, in a. Saturday night and sunday morning karel reisz 1960 85min. Marty stuart and his fabulous superlatives saturday night. For those who need more schooling in nottingham culture, saturday night and sunday morning is a classic novel by alan sillitoe about working class life in 1950s hoodtown, which was soon turned into a classic socialrealist film by karel reisz. This is wear some righteous, greasy country music is played by a tight band of master musicians. Memorable quotes and exchanges from movies, tv series and more. He wanted a submissive cocksucker who would dress in sexy. The third season 19631964 began on september 21, 1963. Saturday night and sunday morning dvda film by karel reisz in the industrial streets and factories of nottingham, the hardliving arthur seaton albert finney, tom jones spends his days at the factory bench, his evenings in the local pubs and his nights in the arms of brenda rachel roberts, this sporting life, the wife of a fellow factory worker. Saturday night sunday morning is a double album with saturday morning being disc 1.
Apr 10, 2014 alan sillitoes timeless novel saturday night and sunday morning has continued to influence generation after generation middle child fills the space brilliantly bicycle partsemblematic of the. Saturday night and sunday morning 1960 karel reisz. For the third season in a row, the network opened its saturday night movie series with a marilyn monroestarring film, 1955s the seven year itch. Marty stuart and his fabulous superlatives have created another awesome piece of music.
Saturday night and sunday morning movie clip not on back row. A year later, alan had written the screenplay which would be filmed in 1960. Saturday night and sunday morning 1960 directed by. Never before had film audiences been expected to sit back and watch the unsavoury exploits of a northern factory worker, who drank himself silly and slept with two women without caring much about either of them. Saturday night and sunday morning 1960 brenda is pregnant. All of the old raleigh buildings seen in the film have now been replaced by modern housing, but the old buildings on the right still remain, although the two shops are now hous. Saturday night and sunday morning trailer 1961 video.
When i first heard these new songs, they struck me as darker sounding. Saturday night and sunday morning 1961 turner classic movies. All of the old raleigh buildings seen in the film have now been replaced by modern housing, but the old buildings on the right still remain, although the two shops are now houses. Saturday night and sunday morning has a reputation as one of british cinemas finest achievements, a status very much dependent upon its accomplished mobilisation of qualities defined as realist by the majority of british film commentators. Saturday night and sunday morning is one of the essential movies in the british new wave movement, and it performs terrifically as a time capsule of late 1950s british workingclass life. I went over the river, and through the woods with the radio on. Saturday night and sunday morning is one of the finest examples of cinema that emerged in britain from the late fifties and early sixties. Based on a novel by alan sillitoe, it is very much of the social realism genre and could be used to view many sociological themes. This recording was eventually released in 1993, as saturday night, sunday morning. By the way, how to marry a millionaire 1953 was the first film shown on nbc saturday night at the movies, which ran until 1978.
Saturday night and sunday morning karel reisz, uk, 1960 movie trailer. They have just reached the junction with cycle road. Diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film. Saturday night and sunday morning 1960 soundtracks imdb. Working class drinkingman arthur albert finney joins pal bert norman rossington and his mum edna morris at the bar, soon meeting alluring doreen shirley anne field, in saturday night and sunday morning, 1961, directed by karel reisz. Saturday night and sunday morning synopsis fandango. Nbc saturday night at the movies was the first tv show to broadcast in color relatively recent feature films from major studios. Saturday night and sunday morning is still often regarded as one of the most important british films of the early sixties, one that captured the mood of the times and displayed a new frankness toward sex on the screen certain theatres in england refused to exhibit the film when it was first released. Alan sillitoes first novel, saturday night and sunday morning, first published in 1958 rather burst into that territory which came to be described, in literature and especially in theatre, as that of the angry young man playwrights such as wesker and osborne were writing about working class experience in a way which celebrated and showed the vigour of a kind of angry, cynical. The sights and sounds of industrial nottingham resonate with a grimy thud as arthur seaton works his tedious factory job. Burnel, jet black and dave greenfield, with hugh cornwell not attending.
Saturday night and sunday morning 1960 soundtracks on imdb. Not in subject matter, but marty and kennys guitars had a darker sound overall. Complete summary of alan sillitoes saturday night and sunday morning. Saturday night and sunday morning dvd a film by karel reisz. Sep 23, 2016 by the way, how to marry a millionaire 1953 was the first film shown on nbc saturday night at the movies, which ran until 1978. Finney is the nottingham factory worker determined he wont let the bastards grind you down, as he rails at the deadend nature of. Mar 29, 2010 saturday night and sunday morning karel reisz, uk, 1960 movie trailer. Watch the video for saturday night, sunday morning from thelma houstons the best of for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists.
Albert finneys first movie, it is more a character study than a plotdriven film. Its an adaptation of alan sillitoes 1958 novel which its director karel reisz carries to the screen with authenticity by shooting on location in and. Saturday night and sunday morning 1960 release info imdb. List of nbc saturday night at the movies titles wikipedia. Saturday night and sunday morning 1960 albert finney in saturday night and sunday morning. Saturday night and sunday morning film movie facebook. Previously, television stations had been only been able to show older, lowbudget, black and white films that wouldnt. Its main character is arthur seaton, a bluecollar worker who is very successful at work and he always eager to have rough fun during the weekend. Aug 10, 2011 saturday night and sunday morning 1960 brenda is pregnant duration. I was going to meet a man who was dominant, and had put a personal ad online. Historic television grids for us networks saturday morning. Film locations for saturday night and sunday morning 1960, in nottinghamshire and london. Apr 08, 2017 le film saturday night and sunday morning 1960 vostfr admin 20170408t21.
Harry saltzman the producer famous for the james bond films had started the film company woodfall productions in the mid1950s, making social realism films like the iron petticoat 1956 and look back in anger 1959 directed by tony richardson. Centering on a workingclass englishman with more than just a few wild oats to sow. Saturday night and sunday morning is a 1960 film by karel reisz, one of the first in the british new wavekitchen sink drama movement. A defining moment in british cinema history, made at a time when the uk was finding its feet in the postwar industry by transforming new stage successes into movies. Directed by 1 writing credits 2 cast 36 produced by 2 music by 1 cinematography by 1 film editing by 1 art direction by 1 makeup department 2 production management 1 second unit director or assistant director 1 sound department 3 stunts 1. Saturday night and sunday morning 1960 directed by karel. Bryan pringle in saturday night and sunday morning 1960 albert finney and shirley anne field in. For sure there is a lot of despair on display here but there is also a glimmer of hope for happiness. Saturday night and sunday morning is a 1960 british drama film directed by karel reisz and produced by tony richardson. Sep 25, 2011 a rebellious, hardliving factory worker juggles relationships with two women, one of whom is married to another man but pregnant with his child. September 23, 1961nbc saturday night at the movies debuts.
With albert finney, shirley anne field, rachel roberts, hylda baker. The film is a great reminder of how nottingham looked in the early 60s. Overview of the 1960 british film saturday night and sunday morning, a classic of the angry young men movement of film, theatre, and literature. Saturday night and sunday morning is the first novel by british author alan sillitoe and won the authors club first novel award it was adapted by sillitoe into a 1960 film starring albert finney, directed by karel reisz, and in 1964 was adapted by david brett as a play for the nottingham playhouse, with ian mckellen playing one of his first leading roles. Jun 17, 2007 saturday night sunday morning trailer albert finney. Saturday night and sunday morning 1960 filmaffinity. The film entered general release on the abc cinema circuit from late january 1961 and was a boxoffice success, being the third most popular film in britain that year. A resentful factory worker has a fling with a married woman, but ultimately settles for dull conformity. Saturday nightsunday morning is a double album with saturday morning being disc 1. Saturday night and sunday morning was reiszs feature film debut, and was groundbreaking in many ways. The sex scenes and fruity language caused quite a stir with the film was released in 1960.
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