Saturday Night & Sunday Morning

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Alan Sillitoe's classic novel of the 1950s is a story of timeless significance. The film of the novel, starring Albert Finney, transformed British cinema and was much imitated. Working all day at a lathe leaves Arthur Seaton with energy to spare in the evenings. A hard-drinking, hard-fighting young rebel, he knows what he wants, and he's sharp enough to get it. Before long, his carryings-on with a couple of married women is local gossip. But then one evening he meets a young girl in a pub, and Arthur's life begins to look less simple...