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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Series: Leading the Charge: Woodfall Film Productions and the Revolution in '60s British Cinema [July 2007] Director: Karel Reisz, Country: United Kingdom, Release: 1960, Runtime: 90 “What I want is a good time. All the rest is propaganda.”—Arthur Seaton in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning The box office failure of The Entertainer cast a harsh shadow on the future of Woodfall Film Productions. Plans for several pictures were scrapped while Richardson’s Free Cinema colleague Karel Reisz was brought in to direct this low-budget adaptation of an Alan Sillitoe novel. Set in Nottingham, where Reisz had grown up, the film is a portrait of Arthur Seaton (Albert Finney), a factory worker who lives for liquor and womanizing. But like it or not, Arthur’s fate—settling down, getting married, council housing, and a family—seems foretold. Reisz avoids the political and social stereotypes so often used for characters like Arthur; he’s far too complex and contradictory to be reduced to a simple class analysis. If this had been Albert Finney’s only screen performance, he still would have merited a place in the history books; he exudes a powerful physicality that takes on a tragic tone as it becomes clearer and clearer that his rebellious days are numbered. Happily, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning proved to be an enormous success, and Woodfall was back on track.

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