Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (film)

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Original British quad format cinema poster
Directed by	Karel Reisz
Screenplay by	Alan Sillitoe
Based on	Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe
Produced by	Tony Richardson Harry Saltzman (executive)
Starring	Albert Finney Shirley Anne Field Rachel Roberts Hylda Baker Norman Rossington
Cinematography	Freddie Francis
Edited by	Seth Holt
Music by	John Dankworth
Production company	Woodfall Film Productions
Distributed by	Bryanston Films (UK) Continental Distributing (USA)
Release dates	27 October 1960 (1960-10-27) (UK) 3 April 1961 (1961-04-03) (US)[1]
Running time	89 minutes
Countries	United Kingdom United States
Language	English
Budget	£116,848[2][3] or £120,420[4]
Box office	£401,825 (UK) (as of 31 Dec 1964)[5][6]

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is a 1960 British kitchen sink drama film directed by Karel Reisz and produced by Tony Richardson.^[7] It is an adaptation of the 1958 novel of the same name 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. A common trope in these films is the working-class "angry young man" character (in this case, the character of Arthur), who rebels against the oppressive social and economic systems established by previous generations.

In 1999, the British Film Institute named Saturday Night and Sunday Morning the 14th greatest British film of all time on its list of the Top 100 British films.