saturday night & sunday morning by alan sillitoe

Maybe he has an uncommon share of humor, courage, pride and dignity. He can stand on his two feet in this world.Maybe this sturdy young fellow, who is brilliantly realized and played by a fine young actor named Albert Finney, a new sensation of the British stage and screen, is a very exceptional specimen in the run of the working class. He has confidence and a quiet determination.

But he is a fast, efficient worker-at his lathe and with the girls. He is single and independent, rooms with his parents in their grubby worker's home, gripes about his low pay and harsh foreman and spends his Saturday nights drinking beer in the pub.Sure, he is skeptical and surly, sarcastic and rebellious toward certain things, including nasty old neighborhood women who get in his way and stick their noses into his affairs. ANOTHER type of the youth of post-war Britain besides the 'teddy boy' and the 'angry young man' we've been seeing in some recent British pictures is portrayed fascinatingly in 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning,' which came to the Baronet yesterday.He is a tough, robust, cheeky factory worker living (in this case) in mid-lands Nottingham, one of those great, sprawling, drab industrial cities that scar the landscape of Britain today.

Saturday night & sunday morning by alan sillitoe