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''Saturday Night and Sunday Morning'' is a 1960 film directed by Karel Reisz, one of the first in the British New Wave[=/=]KitchenSinkDrama movement. Writer Alan Sillitoe adapted the screenplay [[TheFilmOfTheBook from his own 1958 novel]].

Its main character is Arthur Seaton (Creator/AlbertFinney), a blue-collar worker who is very successful at work and always eager to have rough fun during the weekend. He drinks and carries on an affair with Brenda (Rachel Roberts), the wife of his colleague from work. Then he sees Doreen (Shirley Anne Field), a girl who's prettier than anyone he's met before, who lives with her mother and wants to get married.

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''Saturday Night and Sunday Morning'' is a 1960 film directed by Karel Reisz, one of the first in the British New Wave[=/=]KitchenSinkDrama movement. Writer Alan Sillitoe adapted the screenplay [[TheFilmOfTheBook from his own 1958 novel]].

novel]]. It stars Creator/AlbertFinney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts, and Hylda Baker.

Its main character is Arthur Seaton (Creator/AlbertFinney), (Finney), a blue-collar worker who is very successful at work and always eager to have rough fun during the weekend. He drinks and carries on an affair with Brenda (Rachel Roberts), (Roberts), the wife of his colleague from work. Then he sees Doreen (Shirley Anne Field), (Field), a girl who's prettier than anyone he's met before, who lives with her mother and wants to get married.
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''Saturday Night and Sunday Morning'' is a 1960 film directed by Karel Reisz, one of the first in the British New Wave[=/=]KitchenSinkDrama movement. It was adapted by Alan Sillitoe from [[TheFilmOfTheBook his own 1958 novel]].

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''Saturday Night and Sunday Morning'' is a 1960 film directed by Karel Reisz, one of the first in the British New Wave[=/=]KitchenSinkDrama movement. It was adapted by Writer Alan Sillitoe from adapted the screenplay [[TheFilmOfTheBook from his own 1958 novel]].
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''Saturday Night and Sunday Morning'' is a 1960 film written by Alan Sillitoe and directed by Karel Reisz, one of the first in the British New Wave[=/=]KitchenSinkDrama movement.

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''Saturday Night and Sunday Morning'' is a 1960 film written by Alan Sillitoe and directed by Karel Reisz, one of the first in the British New Wave[=/=]KitchenSinkDrama movement.
movement. It was adapted by Alan Sillitoe from [[TheFilmOfTheBook his own 1958 novel]].

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''Saturday Night and Sunday Morning'' is a 1960 film by Karel Reisz, one of the first in the British New Wave[=/=]KitchenSinkDrama movement. Its main character is Arthur Seaton, a blue-collar worker who is very successful at work and he always eager to have rough fun during the week-end. He drinks and carries on an affair with a wife of his colleague from work. Then he sees a girl who is prettier than anyone he met before.

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''Saturday Night and Sunday Morning'' is a 1960 film written by Alan Sillitoe and directed by Karel Reisz, one of the first in the British New Wave[=/=]KitchenSinkDrama movement. movement.

Its main character is Arthur Seaton, Seaton (Creator/AlbertFinney), a blue-collar worker who is very successful at work and he always eager to have rough fun during the week-end. weekend. He drinks and carries on an affair with a Brenda (Rachel Roberts), the wife of his colleague from work. Then he sees Doreen (Shirley Anne Field), a girl who is who's prettier than anyone he he's met before.
before, who lives with her mother and wants to get married.



* BetaCouple: A very typical example are Bert, the cousin of Arthur, and Betty, a friend of Doreen. Bert's appearance is one of an every-man compared to Arthur's, Betty is not as attractive. Their romance is later dropped. Even in the penultimate scene when Arthur talks with Bert as they are fishing the conversation revolves around Arthur.

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* BetaCouple: A very typical example are Bert, the cousin of Arthur, and Betty, a friend of Doreen. Bert's appearance is one of an every-man everyman compared to Arthur's, while Betty is not as attractive.attractive as Doreen. Their romance is later dropped. Even in the penultimate scene when Arthur talks with Bert as they are fishing the conversation revolves around Arthur.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Brenda has an affair with her husband's younger fellow worker.
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* TheFifties: England has overcome the WWII and the welfare steadily increases.
* ArchEnemy: Mrs Bull for Arthur. Until the third act. Arthur's commeuppance does not come from her.

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* TheFifties: England has overcome the WWII and the welfare of its citizens steadily increases.
* ArchEnemy: Mrs Bull for Arthur. Until the third act. Arthur's commeuppance comeuppance does not come from her.



* BetaCouple: A very typical example are Bert, the cousin of Arthur, and Betty, a friend of Doreen. Bert's appearance is one of an everyman compared to Arthur's, Betty is pudgy, with pudgy face. Their romance is later dropped. Even in the penultimate scene when Arthur talks with Bert as they are fishing the conversation relovles around Arthur. The plotline of the beta couple is not mentioned at all.
* BlatantLies: Arthur hits Mrs Bull with a pneumatic rifle from the window. Later when she comes to his apartment he threatens her with the same gun. Later still when she returns with a policeman he denies having any rifle at home. The policeman tells both sides not to cause any trouble and departs. Interestingly after that Mrs Bull who was the nemesis of the main character disappears from the film.
* CommitmentIssues: Invoked by Arthur but he overcomes them fairly easily so they appear more a self-informed thing. Doreen generally leads him wherever she wants. Of course she is very pretty for his working neighbourhood.
* IHaveThisFriend: That's what Arthur tells Aunt Ada when he is about to ask her to abort a child of Brenda. Of course she does not believe that it is his friend not him from whom that woman conceived.

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* BetaCouple: A very typical example are Bert, the cousin of Arthur, and Betty, a friend of Doreen. Bert's appearance is one of an everyman every-man compared to Arthur's, Betty is pudgy, with pudgy face.not as attractive. Their romance is later dropped. Even in the penultimate scene when Arthur talks with Bert as they are fishing the conversation relovles revolves around Arthur. The plotline of the beta couple is not mentioned at all.
Arthur.
* BlatantLies: Arthur hits Mrs Bull with a pneumatic rifle from the window. Later when she comes to his apartment he threatens her with the same gun. Later still when she returns with a policeman he denies having any rifle at home. The policeman tells both sides not to cause any trouble and departs. Interestingly after that Mrs Bull who was the nemesis of the main character disappears from the film.
departs.
* CommitmentIssues: Invoked by Arthur but he overcomes them fairly easily so they appear more a self-informed thing. Doreen generally leads him wherever she wants. Of course she is very pretty for his working working-class neighbourhood.
* IHaveThisFriend: That's what Arthur tells Aunt Ada when he is about to ask her to abort a child of Brenda. help with Brenda's abortion. Of course course, she does not believe that it is his friend not him from whom that woman conceived.Aruthur's story.



** He incidentally spills the beer on a man. When a woman reprimands him he pours the bear on her intentionally.
** Once he puts a dead rat on the workbench of a female worker.
** His relationship with Mrs Bull is antagonistic and he kicks her several time.
* LetsWaitAWhile: Doreen invokes this to Arthur. Indeed they wait. A while. Later they still have sex before the wedding however it is implied that Arthur does not want to seek anyone else as Doreen with her fine features is by far the prettiest girl he ever met.
* MadeOfIron: Zigzagged as first Arthur is nearly unharmed as he falls of a stair. Later he has to remain in bed after being beaten up by two soldiers.
* MeaningfulName: Probably for Mrs Bull who is angry and obstinate.
* NostalgiaFilter: Zigzagged as various characters mention how in the past they lived better or worse than now in late 50's. Mostly they believe their living conditions have improved but some also have a good word for the past.
* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: For Doreen and Arthur who go away towards the houses one of which might one day become their own.

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** He incidentally accidentally spills the beer on a man. When a woman reprimands him him, he pours the bear on her intentionally.
** Once he He puts a dead rat on the workbench of a female worker.
** His relationship with Mrs Bull is antagonistic and he kicks purposefully bumps into her several time.
* LetsWaitAWhile: Doreen invokes this to Arthur. Indeed they wait. A while. Later they They still have sex before the wedding however being married. However it is implied that Arthur does not want to seek anyone else as Doreen with her fine features is by far the prettiest girl he ever met.
else.
* MadeOfIron: Zigzagged as first Arthur is nearly unharmed as he falls of a stair. Later downs some stairs. Later, he has to remain in bed is forced on bedrest after being beaten up by two soldiers.
* MeaningfulName: Probably for Mrs Bull who is angry and obstinate.
* NostalgiaFilter: Zigzagged as various characters mention how in the past (i.e. early war years) they lived better or worse than now in late 50's. Mostly they believe their living conditions have improved but some also have a good word for the past.
* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: For Doreen and Arthur who go away towards toward the houses one of which might one day become their own.



* PetTheDog: Once Arthur and his cousin, Bert, pass near a man who suddenly throws a stone at a shop-window. He is promptly detained by two women from the neighbourhood including Mrs Bull whom Arthur hates. The man tells that he is aggrieved by the death of his wife three months ago. Arthur tries to make the women let him go partly out of pity, partly to spite his detested neighbour. The police arrives exactly when he succeeds to tear the man out of the hands of women.

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* PetTheDog: Once Arthur and his cousin, Bert, pass near a man who suddenly throws a stone at a shop-window.shop window. He is promptly detained by two women from the neighbourhood including Mrs Bull whom Arthur hates. The man tells that he is aggrieved by the death of his wife three months ago. Arthur tries to make the women let him go partly out of pity, partly to spite his detested neighbour. The police arrives arrive exactly when he succeeds to tear the man out of the hands of women.women, but the man is arrested anyway.



* RedScare: Interestingly this trope appears here though without much consequence. The boss of Arthur is aware that someone among his workers is a communist and he suspects that it is Arthur. It is implied that a culprit will face grave consequences. Arthur flatly denies any adherence to leftist ideas. However, the bosses' intuition is correct. Arthur immediately confesses to Jack that he indeed voted for the communists on the latest election. This seems odd coming from him, as he is generally self-interested, materialistic and keen on pleasure and fun, however, he did it on a fit of class consciousness. It does not lead anywhere though. It is not even used by Jack against him later as he learns that Arthur was carrying it on with his wife.
* StaircaseTumble: Arthur experiences it once and is not very much hurt.
* YourCheatingHeart: For Brenda who has an affair with her husband's younger fellow worker.

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* RedScare: Interestingly this trope appears here though without much consequence. The boss of Arthur is aware that someone among his workers is a communist and he suspects that it is Arthur. It is implied that a culprit will face grave consequences. Arthur flatly denies any adherence to leftist ideas. However, the bosses' intuition is correct. Arthur immediately confesses to Jack that he indeed voted for the communists on the latest election. This seems odd coming from him, as he is generally self-interested, materialistic and keen on pleasure and fun, fun; however, he did it on a fit of class consciousness. It does not lead anywhere though. It is not even used by Jack against him later as he learns that Arthur was carrying it on with his wife.
* StaircaseTumble: Arthur experiences it once is flat-out drunk and is not very much hurt.
falls down the stairs of a pub. He promptly laughs it off.
* YourCheatingHeart: For Brenda who has an affair with her husband's younger fellow worker.
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is a 1960 film by Karel Reisz, one of the first in the British New Wave[=/=]KitchenSinkDrama movement. Its main character is Arthur Seaton, a blue-collar worker who is very successful at work and he always eager to have rough fun during the week-end. He drinks and carries on an affair with a wife of his colleague from work. Then he sees a girl who is prettier than anyone he met before.

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Saturday ''Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Morning'' is a 1960 film by Karel Reisz, one of the first in the British New Wave[=/=]KitchenSinkDrama movement. Its main character is Arthur Seaton, a blue-collar worker who is very successful at work and he always eager to have rough fun during the week-end. He drinks and carries on an affair with a wife of his colleague from work. Then he sees a girl who is prettier than anyone he met before.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Just going to kick one more bitch]]

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is a 1960 film by Karel Reisz, one of the first in the British New Wave//KitchenSinkDrama movement. Its main character is Arthur Seaton, a blue-collar worker who is very successful at work and he always eager to have rough fun during the week-end. He drinks and carries on an affair with a wife of his colleague from work. Then he sees a girl who is prettier than anyone he met before.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Just going to kick one more bitch]]

bitch.]]

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is a 1960 film by Karel Reisz, one of the first in the British New Wave//KitchenSinkDrama Wave[=/=]KitchenSinkDrama movement. Its main character is Arthur Seaton, a blue-collar worker who is very successful at work and he always eager to have rough fun during the week-end. He drinks and carries on an affair with a wife of his colleague from work. Then he sees a girl who is prettier than anyone he met before.



* AntiHero: A mild example. Arthur is hard-working and brave. However he is not averse to deception and several times kicks various dogs. Luckily he is a complicated character.

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* AntiHero: A mild example. Arthur is hard-working and brave. However he is not averse to deception and several times [[KickTheDog kicks various dogs.dogs]]. Luckily he is a complicated character.



* DarkAndTroubledPast// NostalgiaFilter: Zigzagged as various characters mention how in the past they lived better or worse than now in late 50's. Mostly they believe their living conditions have improved but some also have a good word for the past.



* NostalgiaFilter: Zigzagged as various characters mention how in the past they lived better or worse than now in late 50's. Mostly they believe their living conditions have improved but some also have a good word for the past.



* {{Oopnorth}}: The film was shot in Leeds.

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* {{Oopnorth}}: OopNorth: The film was shot in Leeds.



* PopCultureOsmosis: It is famous to some extent due to Music/ArcticMonkeys and Music/WhateverPeopleSayIAmThatsWhatImNot.
* RedScare: Interestingly this trope appears here though without much consequence. The boss of Arthur is aware that someone among his workers is a communist and he suspects that it is Arthur. It is implied that a culprit will face grave consequences. Arthur flatly denies any adherence to leftist ideas. However the bosses intuition is correct. Arthur immediately confesses to Jack that he indeed voted for the communists on the latest election. He is generally self-interested, materialistic and keen on pleasure and fun. However he has this one fit of the class consciousness. It does not lead anywhere though. It is not even used by Jack against him later as he learns that Arthur was carrying it on with his wife.

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* PopCultureOsmosis: It is famous to some extent due to Music/ArcticMonkeys and Music/WhateverPeopleSayIAmThatsWhatImNot.
''Music/WhateverPeopleSayIAmThatsWhatImNot''.
* RedScare: Interestingly this trope appears here though without much consequence. The boss of Arthur is aware that someone among his workers is a communist and he suspects that it is Arthur. It is implied that a culprit will face grave consequences. Arthur flatly denies any adherence to leftist ideas. However However, the bosses bosses' intuition is correct. Arthur immediately confesses to Jack that he indeed voted for the communists on the latest election. He This seems odd coming from him, as he is generally self-interested, materialistic and keen on pleasure and fun. However fun, however, he has this one did it on a fit of the class consciousness. It does not lead anywhere though. It is not even used by Jack against him later as he learns that Arthur was carrying it on with his wife.
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* BetaCouple: A very typical example are Bert, the cousin of Arthur, and Betty, a friend of Doreen. Bert's appearance is one of an everyman compared to Arthur's, Betty is pudgy, with pudgy face. Their romance is later dropped. Even in the penultimate scene when Arthur talks with Bert as they are fishing the conversation relovles around Arthur. The plotline of beta cpouple is not mentioned at all.

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* BetaCouple: A very typical example are Bert, the cousin of Arthur, and Betty, a friend of Doreen. Bert's appearance is one of an everyman compared to Arthur's, Betty is pudgy, with pudgy face. Their romance is later dropped. Even in the penultimate scene when Arthur talks with Bert as they are fishing the conversation relovles around Arthur. The plotline of the beta cpouple couple is not mentioned at all.



* DarkAndTroubledPast// NostalgiaFilter: Zigzagged as various characters mention how in the past they lived better or worse than now in late 50's. Mostly the believe their living conditions have improved but some also have good word for the past.

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* DarkAndTroubledPast// NostalgiaFilter: Zigzagged as various characters mention how in the past they lived better or worse than now in late 50's. Mostly the they believe their living conditions have improved but some also have a good word for the past.



* PetTheDog: Once Arthur and his cousin, Bert, pass near a man who suddenly throws a stone in a shop-window. He is promptly detained by two women from the neighbourhood including Mrs Bull whom Arthur hates. The man tells that he is aggrieved by the death of his wife three months ago. Arthur tries to make the women let him go partly out of pity, partly to spite his detested neighbour. The police arrives exactly when he succeeds to tear the man out of the hands of women.

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* PetTheDog: Once Arthur and his cousin, Bert, pass near a man who suddenly throws a stone in at a shop-window. He is promptly detained by two women from the neighbourhood including Mrs Bull whom Arthur hates. The man tells that he is aggrieved by the death of his wife three months ago. Arthur tries to make the women let him go partly out of pity, partly to spite his detested neighbour. The police arrives exactly when he succeeds to tear the man out of the hands of women.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast// Nostalgiafilter: Zigzagged as various characters mention how in the past they lived better or worse than now in late 50's. Mostly the believe their living conditions have improved but some also have good word for the past.

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* DarkAndTroubledPast// Nostalgiafilter: NostalgiaFilter: Zigzagged as various characters mention how in the past they lived better or worse than now in late 50's. Mostly the believe their living conditions have improved but some also have good word for the past.
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* RedScare: Interestingly this trope appears here though without much consequence. The boss of Arthur is aware that someone among his workers is a communist and he suspects that it is Arthur. It is implied that a culprit will face grave consequences. Arthur flatly denies any adherence to leftist ideas. However the bosses intuition is correct. Arthur immediately confesses to Jack that he indeed voted for the communists on the latest election. He is generally self-interested, materialistic and keen on pleasure and fun. However he has this one fit of the class consciousness. It does not lead anywhere though. it is not even used by Jack against him later as he learns that Arthur was carrying it on with his wife.

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* RedScare: Interestingly this trope appears here though without much consequence. The boss of Arthur is aware that someone among his workers is a communist and he suspects that it is Arthur. It is implied that a culprit will face grave consequences. Arthur flatly denies any adherence to leftist ideas. However the bosses intuition is correct. Arthur immediately confesses to Jack that he indeed voted for the communists on the latest election. He is generally self-interested, materialistic and keen on pleasure and fun. However he has this one fit of the class consciousness. It does not lead anywhere though. it It is not even used by Jack against him later as he learns that Arthur was carrying it on with his wife.
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* IHaveThisFriend: That's what Arthur tells Aunt Ada when he is about to ask you to abort a child of Brenda. Of course she does not believe that it is his friend not him from whom that woman conceived..

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* IHaveThisFriend: That's what Arthur tells Aunt Ada when he is about to ask you her to abort a child of Brenda. Of course she does not believe that it is his friend not him from whom that woman conceived..conceived.



** He incidentally pours the beer on a man. When a woman reprimands him he pours the bear on her intentionally

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** He incidentally pours spills the beer on a man. When a woman reprimands him he pours the bear on her intentionallyintentionally.

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* TheFifties: England has overcome the WWII and the welfare steadily increases.



* DarkAndTroubledPast// Nostalgiafilter: Zigzagged as various characters mention how in the past they lived better or worse than now in 1960.

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* DarkAndTroubledPast// Nostalgiafilter: Zigzagged as various characters mention how in the past they lived better or worse than now in 1960.late 50's. Mostly the believe their living conditions have improved but some also have good word for the past.



* YourCheatingHeart: For Brenda who has an affair with her husband's younger fellow worker.

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* YourCheatingHeart: For Brenda who has an affair with her husband's younger fellow worker.worker.
* WorkingClassHero: Arthur is of course an AntiHero.
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* AntiHero: A mild example. Arthur is hard-working and brave. However he is not averse to deception and several times kick various dogs. Luckily he is a complicated character.

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* AntiHero: A mild example. Arthur is hard-working and brave. However he is not averse to deception and several times kick kicks various dogs. Luckily he is a complicated character.



* RedScare: Interestingly this trope appears here though without much consequence. The boss of Arthur is aware that someone among his workers is a communist and he suspects that it is Arthur. It is implied that a culprit will face grave consequences. Arthur flatly denies any adherence to leftist ideas. However the bosses intuition is correct. Arthur immediately confesses to Jack that he indeed voted for the communists. He is genertally self-interested, materialistic and keen on pleasure and fun. However he has this one fit of the class consciousness. It does not lead anywhere though. it is not even used by Jack against him later as he learns that Arthur was carrying it on with his wife.

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* RedScare: Interestingly this trope appears here though without much consequence. The boss of Arthur is aware that someone among his workers is a communist and he suspects that it is Arthur. It is implied that a culprit will face grave consequences. Arthur flatly denies any adherence to leftist ideas. However the bosses intuition is correct. Arthur immediately confesses to Jack that he indeed voted for the communists. communists on the latest election. He is genertally generally self-interested, materialistic and keen on pleasure and fun. However he has this one fit of the class consciousness. It does not lead anywhere though. it is not even used by Jack against him later as he learns that Arthur was carrying it on with his wife.
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is a 1960 film by Karel Reisz, one of the first in the British New Wave/KitchenSinkDrama movement. Its main character is Arthur Seaton, a blue-collar worker who is very successful at work and he always eager to have rough fun during the week-end. He drinks and carries on an affair with a wife of his colleague from work. Then he sees a girl who is prettier than anyone he met before.

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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is a 1960 film by Karel Reisz, one of the first in the British New Wave/KitchenSinkDrama Wave//KitchenSinkDrama movement. Its main character is Arthur Seaton, a blue-collar worker who is very successful at work and he always eager to have rough fun during the week-end. He drinks and carries on an affair with a wife of his colleague from work. Then he sees a girl who is prettier than anyone he met before.
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is a 1960 film by Karel Reisz, one of the first in the British New Wave/Kitchen Sink Drama movement. Its main character is Arthur Seaton, a blue-collar worker who is very successful at work and he always eager to have rough fun during the week-end. He drinks and carries on an affair with a wife of his colleague from work. Then he sees a girl who is prettier than anyone he met before.

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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is a 1960 film by Karel Reisz, one of the first in the British New Wave/Kitchen Sink Drama Wave/KitchenSinkDrama movement. Its main character is Arthur Seaton, a blue-collar worker who is very successful at work and he always eager to have rough fun during the week-end. He drinks and carries on an affair with a wife of his colleague from work. Then he sees a girl who is prettier than anyone he met before.
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* BetaCouple: A very typical example are Bert, the cousin of Arthur, and Betty, a friend of Doreen. Albert's appearance is one of an everyman compared to Arthur's, Betty is pudgy, with pudgy face. Their romance is later dropped. Even in the penultimate scene when Arthur talks with Bert as they are fishing the conversation relovles around Arthur. The plotline of beta cpouple is not mentioned at all.

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* BetaCouple: A very typical example are Bert, the cousin of Arthur, and Betty, a friend of Doreen. Albert's Bert's appearance is one of an everyman compared to Arthur's, Betty is pudgy, with pudgy face. Their romance is later dropped. Even in the penultimate scene when Arthur talks with Bert as they are fishing the conversation relovles around Arthur. The plotline of beta cpouple is not mentioned at all.
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* RedScare: Interestingly this trope appears here though without much consequence. The boss of Arthur is aware that someone among his workers is a communist and he suspects that it is Arthur. It is implied that a culprit will face grave consequences. Arthur flatly denies any adherence to leftist ideas. However the bosses intuition is correct. Arthur immediately confesses to Jack that he indeed voted for the communists. He is genertally self-interested, materialistic and keen on pleasure and fun. However he has this one fit of the proletarian conscience. It does not lead anywhere though. it is not even used by Jack against him later as he learns that Arthur was carrying it on with his wife.

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* RedScare: Interestingly this trope appears here though without much consequence. The boss of Arthur is aware that someone among his workers is a communist and he suspects that it is Arthur. It is implied that a culprit will face grave consequences. Arthur flatly denies any adherence to leftist ideas. However the bosses intuition is correct. Arthur immediately confesses to Jack that he indeed voted for the communists. He is genertally self-interested, materialistic and keen on pleasure and fun. However he has this one fit of the proletarian conscience.class consciousness. It does not lead anywhere though. it is not even used by Jack against him later as he learns that Arthur was carrying it on with his wife.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast// Nostalgiafilter: Zigzagged as various characters mention how in the past they lived better or worse than now in 1960.
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* ArchEnemy: Mrs Bull for Arthur. Until the third act.

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* ArchEnemy: Mrs Bull for Arthur. Until the third act. Arthur's commeuppance does not come from her.
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* MaeaningfulName: Probably for Mrs Bull who is angry and obstinate.

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* MaeaningfulName: MeaningfulName: Probably for Mrs Bull who is angry and obstinate.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Just going to kick one more bitch]]


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** His relationship with Mrs Bull is antagonistic and he kicks her several time.


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* MaeaningfulName: Probably for Mrs Bull who is angry and obstinate.
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* StaircaseTumble: Arthur experiences it once and is not very much hurt.

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* StaircaseTumble: Arthur experiences it once and is not very much hurt.hurt.
* YourCheatingHeart: For Brenda who has an affair with her husband's younger fellow worker.
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* offIntoTheDistanceEnding: For Doreen and Arthur who go away towards the houses one of which might one day become their own.
* Oopnorth: The film was shot in Leeds.

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* offIntoTheDistanceEnding: OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: For Doreen and Arthur who go away towards the houses one of which might one day become their own.
* Oopnorth: {{Oopnorth}}: The film was shot in Leeds.

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* offIntoTheDistanceEnding: For Doreen and Arthur who go away towards the houses one of which might one day become their own.



* PopCultureOsmosis: Due to Music/ArcticMonkeys and Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not.

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* PopCultureOsmosis: Due It is famous to some extent due to Music/ArcticMonkeys and Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not.Music/WhateverPeopleSayIAmThatsWhatImNot.
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is a 1960 film by Karel Reisz, one of the first in the British New Wave/Kitchen Sink Drama movement. Its main character is Arthur Seaton, a blue-collar worker who is very successful at work and he always eager to have rough fun during the week-end. He drinks and carries on an affair with a wife of his colleague from work. Then he sees a girl who is prettier than anyone he met before.

This film is acclaimed for having tackled the issues of extramarital sex and abortion in a relatively realistic manner.


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* ArchEnemy: Mrs Bull for Arthur. Until the third act.
* AntiHero: A mild example. Arthur is hard-working and brave. However he is not averse to deception and several times kick various dogs. Luckily he is a complicated character.
* BetaCouple: A very typical example are Bert, the cousin of Arthur, and Betty, a friend of Doreen. Albert's appearance is one of an everyman compared to Arthur's, Betty is pudgy, with pudgy face. Their romance is later dropped. Even in the penultimate scene when Arthur talks with Bert as they are fishing the conversation relovles around Arthur. The plotline of beta cpouple is not mentioned at all.
* BlatantLies: Arthur hits Mrs Bull with a pneumatic rifle from the window. Later when she comes to his apartment he threatens her with the same gun. Later still when she returns with a policeman he denies having any rifle at home. The policeman tells both sides not to cause any trouble and departs. Interestingly after that Mrs Bull who was the nemesis of the main character disappears from the film.
* CommitmentIssues: Invoked by Arthur but he overcomes them fairly easily so they appear more a self-informed thing. Doreen generally leads him wherever she wants. Of course she is very pretty for his working neighbourhood.
* IHaveThisFriend: That's what Arthur tells Aunt Ada when he is about to ask you to abort a child of Brenda. Of course she does not believe that it is his friend not him from whom that woman conceived..
* KickTheDog: Several moments of this from Arthur.
** He incidentally pours the beer on a man. When a woman reprimands him he pours the bear on her intentionally
** Once he puts a dead rat on the workbench of a female worker.
* LetsWaitAWhile: Doreen invokes this to Arthur. Indeed they wait. A while. Later they still have sex before the wedding however it is implied that Arthur does not want to seek anyone else as Doreen with her fine features is by far the prettiest girl he ever met.
* MadeOfIron: Zigzagged as first Arthur is nearly unharmed as he falls of a stair. Later he has to remain in bed after being beaten up by two soldiers.
* Oopnorth: The film was shot in Leeds.
* PetTheDog: Once Arthur and his cousin, Bert, pass near a man who suddenly throws a stone in a shop-window. He is promptly detained by two women from the neighbourhood including Mrs Bull whom Arthur hates. The man tells that he is aggrieved by the death of his wife three months ago. Arthur tries to make the women let him go partly out of pity, partly to spite his detested neighbour. The police arrives exactly when he succeeds to tear the man out of the hands of women.
* PopCultureOsmosis: Due to Music/ArcticMonkeys and Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not.
* RedScare: Interestingly this trope appears here though without much consequence. The boss of Arthur is aware that someone among his workers is a communist and he suspects that it is Arthur. It is implied that a culprit will face grave consequences. Arthur flatly denies any adherence to leftist ideas. However the bosses intuition is correct. Arthur immediately confesses to Jack that he indeed voted for the communists. He is genertally self-interested, materialistic and keen on pleasure and fun. However he has this one fit of the proletarian conscience. It does not lead anywhere though. it is not even used by Jack against him later as he learns that Arthur was carrying it on with his wife.
* StaircaseTumble: Arthur experiences it once and is not very much hurt.

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