Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies. It was saturday night, the best and bingiest time of the week, a riotous preamble to the sabbath, and arthur picked himself up and. Arthur is an injured idealist who hides his disappointment in materialism and sensualism. Saturday night and sunday morning 1960 directed by. Director of the department of english dean of the graduate school. This recording was eventually released in 1993, as saturday night, sunday morning. The novel opens in the midst of a rowdy saturday night, the best and bingiest gladtime of the week for 22 year old arthur seaton, a factory worker in postwar. Saturday night makes you appreciate the finally coherenet thoughts of the main character in sunday morning. Saturday night and sunday morning karel reisz, uk, 1960 movie trailer.
Working class heroes its 50 years since alan sillitoe published his groundbreaking saturday night, sunday morning shirley dent. Saturday night and sunday morning by sillitoe alan abebooks. Saturday night and sunday morning by alan sillitoe. The film saturday night and sunday morning aims to address many sociological themes through just one storyline. Analysis and discussion of characters in alan sillitoes saturday night and sunday. Saturday night and sunday morning by sillitoe alan. Later novels, such as the death of william posters 1965 and the widowers son 1977, deal with more intellectual workingclass characters.
Although the protagonist arthur seaton is the impelling force in this novel. Thelma houston saturday night, sunday morning john morales club motown remix. 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. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing saturday night and sunday morning near you. Saturday night and sunday morning is a 1960 british drama film directed by karel reisz and produced by tony richardson. Saturday night and sunday morning synopsis fandango. The film of the novel, starring albert finney, transformed british cinema and was much imitated. Saturday night and sunday morning by alan sillitoe goodreads. Saturday night and sunday morning 1960 plot summary imdb.
In his first starring role, albert finney played a charismatic man who seems destined to follow in his parents and grandparents footsteps by pursuing a mundane, workingclass lifestyle. While social mobility is less of an issue here than in other contemporary british films, saturday night and sunday morning still touches on fantasies of social betterment, the individualising of social issues, and the myth of classlessness in the final scene of the film doreen and arthur look down on a new housing development, the product of. Arthur seaton is 21 years old, and enjoying a night out with brenda, the wife of a colleague at work. 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. Alienation in the early works of alan sillitoe 2001, a book whose title is selfexplanatory as regards the works examined and the focus of the examination. Wed love you to buy this book, and hope you find this page convenient in locating a place of purchase. The nottingham playhouse was where the first version of the play, based on saturday night and sunday morning, was premiered in 1964 starring a young ian mckellen as arthur seaton so we felt it was fitting that we returned to the playhouse with the world premiere of a musical based on the same book. Saturday night and sunday morning by alan sillitoe and a great.
The title is a reference to the gig happening on a saturday night and hugh announcing his departure the following day. This article was amended on saturday october 25 2008. Come saturday night, hes off to the pub for a loud and rowdy beer session. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. In 2001 he published birthday, a sequel to saturday night and sunday morning. Frontman and chief songwriter adam duritz channels his characters on their loneliest night of the week saturday. I like em though, because theyre different from these big fat tory bastards in. Maybe theres a metaphor at work about being brought into the light of reason or being enlightened. Meet the cast and learn more about the stars of of sunday morning with exclusive news, photos, videos and more at. Saturday night and sunday morning 1963 case study the. It is a world of gray skies and defeated characters trying to make the best of what they have. Saturday night and sunday morning lobby card for saturday night and sunday morning 1960, starring albert finney. The novel saturday night and sunday morning is split into two unequal parts. It is an adaptation of the 1958 novel of the same name by alan sillitoe, who also wrote the screenplay adaptation.
Burnel, jet black and dave greenfield, with hugh cornwell not attending. Saturday night and sunday morning is a 1960 film by karel reisz, one of the first in the british new wavekitchen sink drama movement. Saturday night and sunday morning 1958 edition open. Saturday night and sunday morning is the first novel by british author alan sillitoe and won the authors club first novel award. Workingclass culture and work as portrayed in the texts. Driven to distraction by loneliness, they seek connection. A novel the seaton novels book 1 kindle edition by sillitoe, alan. Saturday night and sunday morning, with some mentions of the loneliness of the long distance runner, an emphasis mirrored by john sawkins in the more recent the long apprenticeship. Nottingham novel, and i grew up working class, i knew people like these characters, and i would. Gil norton on saturday nights and brian deck on sunday mornings. Saturday nights and sunday mornings is a classic novel of the factory worker. Arthur spends his weekdays working at a bicycle factory and relaxes on weekends with plenty of drinks while in the company of various lady friends. A resentful factory worker has a fling with a married woman, but ultimately settles for dull conformity.
Saturday night and sunday morning filming location. Goodreads members who liked saturday night and sunday mo. At twentytwo years of age, arthur seaton is a harddrinking lathe operator in a bicycle factory. Related questions and answers for characters in saturday night and sunday morning in the book saturday night and sunday morning by alan sillitoe, is arthur an idealist or a. Saturday night and sunday morning 1961 rotten tomatoes. This is a good, absorbing but not very likeable film. 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. Saturday night and sunday morning audible audiobook abridged alan sillitoe author, linus roache. In the book saturday night and sunday morning by alan sillitoe, is arthur an idealist or a. The film manages to identify, perhaps age related, differences between the male characters of arthur and jack. While it is set in the 1950s in nottingham, england, it portrays. Watch videos, read interviews, view picture galleries, commentaries, profiles, and more. Alan sillitoes classic novel of the 1950s, reissued to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its original publication.
Find books like saturday night and sunday morning from the worlds largest community of readers. Saturday night and sunday morning by alan sillitoe tells the story of arthur seaton, a young british man who spends his days doing repetitive work in a bicycle factory in nottingham and dreaming. Saturday night and sunday morning turner classic movies. Saturday night and sunday morning is a classic of its time and superbly written. 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 film movie plot and. I think this book was originally written as two books. Saturday night and sunday morning is alan sillitoes most famous depiction of working class life, portraying multilayered characters constrained by the conventions of capitalism. To ask other readers questions about saturday night and sunday morning, please sign up. Saturday night and sunday morning by allan sillitoe essay example saturday night and sunday morning is a novel following the rebellious life of twentytwo year old arthur seaton. Saturday night begins in a working mans club in nottingham. The gritty cinematography and coarse characterizations of saturday night and sunday morning are an exciting jolt, but the films central plot a hotheaded factory worker albert finney, in a. Employed as a lathe operator in a midlands factory, finneys arthur seaton lives for the weekend, when he drinks and womanizes to excess. 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. 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. The film is about a young machinist, arthur, who spends his weekends drinking and partying, all the while having an affair with a married woman. Saturday night and sunday morning harper perennial modern. Challenged to a drinking contest, arthur defeats loudmouth before falling down the stairs drunk.
Saturday night and sunday morning karel reisz 1960 85min. A rousing and uproarious novel of the life, loves, and misadventures of a workingclass rogue, saturday nightsunday morning marked the arrival of one of the most cherished authors in the twentyfirst century. Sillitoes account of the rebellious young factory fodder hero arthur seaton was timely when first published four years. A rousing and uproarious novel of the life, loves, and misadventures of a workingclass rogue, saturday night sunday morning marked the arrival of one of the most cherished authors in the twentyfirst century. The purpose of this thesis is to point out the three levels of mythic structure contained in saturday night and sunday morning, a novel published in 1958 by the british novelist alan sillitoe. In particular, we may be surprised at the characters apparent lack of ambition. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading saturday night and sunday morning. Saturday night and sunday morning alan sillitoes novel is produced, directed and acted with integrity and insight.