Saturday Night & Sunday Morning

Pros: direction, script, casting, story

Cons: gloomy, sometimes unpleasant

Review: During the 1950s, the U.S. had several major box office hits featuring stories of rebellious young men, e.g. The Wild One, Rebel Without a Cause. These were often sensationalistic, with exaggerated characters and situations that preyed on...

Pros: cinematography, Finney, the carnival sequence

Cons: undeveloped female characters

The Bottom Line: not likely to shock viewers now

Review: "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" was the most commercially and critically successful of the British new wave/ angry young men flicks of the late 1950s and early 1960s and the one that made Albert Finney a star. The movie was produced by Tony...

Pros: Strong performance by Albert Finney; penetrating study of life in postwar, working-class England

Cons: Had to resort to the English subtitles because the Lancashire accents made the audio incomprehensible

The Bottom Line: A strong and entertaining entry in the British Angry Young Man film movement of the late fifties and early sixties.

Review: When it was originally released, Karel Reisz's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was very provocative and "alternative" in the impression it made on British audiences. Though its subject matter is now routine and, even, bland, it retains its ...