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"'Don't let the bastards grind you down' is the message in this belligerent portrait of working class manhood, adapted from the 50s novel by Alan Sillitoe. Following defiant factory worker Arthur Seaton (Albert Finney), Saturday Night and Sunday Morning offers a terrifying glimpse into an age where work, booze, and death were all that Britain's young men had to look forward to. Set in Nottingham at the end of the 50s, the film offered newcomer Finney the chance to really show what he could do on-screen. The result is a smouldering, poison pen letter of a film in which Finney's working class hero - a rarity in the stuffy days of postwar British cinema - battles the system with a near-religious fervour." - BBC

PG | Social themes, mild sexual references, violence and coarse language