Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Opening Scene

[@yangyang7738]

I started working at Raleigh bicycles in 1959 when on leaving Berridge secondary school , they was making the movie when I started and that machine shop scene is spot on ,, specially washing your hands of grease in cutting oil.I was born on Hyson Green in 1944 and grew up there until I emigrates alone to Australia ,, still here in Australia ,,, all Faraday road gone now and the industry that started my working life ..RIP.. Raleigh .... dodge in oz

[@jocksmen]

YEP I WAS FROM DERBY AND REMEMBER NOTTINGHAM CASTLE AS A SMALL BOY BEING TAKEN THERE WITH MY GRANDMOTHER.!!!

[@madheadmadDAZ]

Faraday road is still there mate. There is now a student complex on the factory grounds called Raleigh Park.

[@jocksmen]

SWARFEGA ANYONE REMEMBER THAT

[@duckman5642]

Great story fella cheers.

[@see6052]

I started off in the machine shops around digbeth in brum in 87 a month before my 16th birthday. Piecework on capstans, cebre lathes, pillar drill etc. Yep. Places might not have been Rayleigh but it was exactly the same world. Washing my hands in the suds and picking brass swarf out of my hands all weekend. Believe it or not I loved that life. Got more money than my mates on yts schemes and had fun spending it. Work was hard but life felt free and easy. Seems tragic when I walk the same streets these days and all them factories are empty, gone, or been replaced by city living blocks.

[@matthewlawrenson2734]

Show me a working class film that has this clarity in our contemporary times. Lots of change over the last 60 odd years. Factory grafting and long hours.

[@shteviemac8310]

One of my favourite parts of one of my favourite movies, absolutely class and still relevant

[@tarantulagirl]

My dads favourite film and actor. I remember when he wrote to Albert Finney when I was little and he replied with signed photo personalised to my dad, he was made up. xx

[@polyesterparties9283]

R.I.P Albert Finney ( 1936 - 2019)

[@supernffc]

RIP Albert Finney. A truly great actor

[@jpowell180]

Remember in Rosemary's Baby, where Guy Woodhouse (Rosemary's husband) jokes about being Albert Finney's understudy? lol!

[@stevenboffy3226]

My first true anti hero you can keep your James Deans this guy said it all for working class kids growing up in the late sixties early seventies nice one Albert forever classic.

[@chrisharding4011]

A great film - RIP the great Salford legend Albert Finney

[@gabrielhershman2313]

Yes, such a pivotal and groundbreaking film. Plenty about the movie in my biography of Albert, Strolling Player. I hope it does justice to the great man. He'll be greatly missed. 'Don't let the bastards grind you down!' Indeed!!!

[@fattypark]

RIP Albert Finney, from a Nottinghamshire lad. This film was way before my time, but I still love it. I remember the Raleigh works before it was flattened, and who didn't have a Raleigh bike as a kid?

[@briz1965]

Grew up in Nottingham and was around when Raleigh were. Oh how times have changed - the book by the way is superb, the film lets down a bit to it. The film on its own is superb; authentic pub, work, goose fair scenes and shows a fair bit of Nottingham/Beeston

[@bearheart2009]

My dad was working at Raleigh when this was filmed, infact i think he's the young man with the dark hair, white shirt and dark overalls who seems to look up at the camera as it pans towards Finney. He always said he was in the opening scene and that's the only person that looks like him at that age. He said Finney worked in the factory for a few days before the scene was shot and some of the other actors and actresses visited.

[@Q.Gold30]

Hi Sarah

[@HarryFlowerrs]

"Albert Finney is the greatest actor of his generation"- Laurence Olivier. High praise indeed from The Master of the Craft!

[@mattwalker5129]

This is the greatest movie ever made about the working class, especially the British working class. It's easy to see why Lennon picked up the guitar. Lennon could have easily played Finney's angry young man...though he couldn't have topped Finney, who should, at the very least, have been nominated for best actor, in the1960. academy Awards. I have no way of proving this, but I suspect Eric Burdon had this movie in mind when he wrote "We Gotta Get Outta This Place."

[@Jenia00000]

you said "especially british working class" but i must admit that this movie is about society at all. I live in Russia and this movie reflects 100% what is going on in society here right now. I have a friend and he has exactly the same live as the main character . He even looks like him

[@twelve8952]

Lennon was middle class. He lived in the suburbs with his posh Auntie Mimi and went to art school. McCartney, Harrison and Starkey were working class.

[@mckavitt]

matt walker This is a Film, w a capitol F.

[@mckavitt]

matt walker Nothing at the BAFTAs? The Oscars aren't everything, you know, despite all the hype.

[@keengro3740]

@@Jenia00000 i think you will find we are all working class, unless you are part of elite cable running things...the common thread that binds all cultures is the market stalls,

[@briz1965]

DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GRIND YOU DOWN

[@duckman5642]

Too late the bastards are still at it in 2019!

[@stevevandien310]

Damn good film, and Finney is bloody damn good in his first starring role. I saw the film before reading the novel. I have since read the novel, am about to reread it, and have seen the film again twice. The very young Finney IS Arthur.

[@eddie12454]

One of my favourite films. Finney is wonderful. As I'm a Nottingham lad I remember those terraced houses around Salisbury Street in the 60s. Most are no longer there.

[@jonnyqwst]

The Great Albert Finney has joined the great majority this day. Rest in Peace friend.

[@richardbailey202]

The factory was the Raleigh Bicycle Works in Nottingham. What a great film this was! RIP, Albert Finney.

[@steveforest8385]

RIP Albert Finney. Don't let the bastards grind you down.

[@missred18]

RIP Albert Finney (9 May 1936 - 8 February 2019)

[@robjones2408]

A class act. A true "Working Class Hero", to quote Lennon. He was great in "Two For The Road" with Audrey Hepburn. We won't see his likes again.

[@terrywogan361]

I'm 35 and my grandad is in the very first scene in glasses and a brown workshop coat on the bottom right. This was filmed at the Raleigh in Nottingham it's sad to see how things have changed but remember one thing "Don't let the bastards grind you down".

[@Telstar62a]

Also, "Whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not" - Arctic Monkeys, from this film / book

[@TonyWilliampianoman]

As a teenage newspaper print worker these words and this scene was sacred to me. By age 26 I'd done something about it. Thanks for the vid Craig.

[@TheCardiffgirl]

No matter which movie he was in, your eyes were always on him. Finney wasn,t the least bit like Seaton; quiet, almost tee-total and very middle class. This shows how he could act the socks off anybody....you,d never believe he was anything but a working-class, pissed off factory worker. One of Britains greats.

[@neilrobson3064]

I agree, but he liked a drink and a smoke as much as the next man? A true Bon Viveur….

[@johnm9845]

His father was a bookie and Finney certainly liked a drink particularly later on. Great in his first film and very fine actor.

[@iannicholls9140]

Brilliant film

[@andrina118]

What I'm out for is a good time - all the rest is propaganda.

[@splinterbyrd]

Pure Thatcherism

[@johnoshea470]

Im not that old , well im 41 this is one of my favourite films ever.

[@deanslife1]

Oh aye, Another cup of tea vera love.... aye, he wasnt looking what he was doing...... he only had one eye, lost sight of the other watching tele day in day out. Aye. (Love this) best scene of the film

[@jpowell180]

I love the scene where he's quickly scarfing down the breakfast Brenda (his boss' wife) made for him after a night of fooling around (and falling down the pub's stairs!); makes me hungry, I could do with a Full English Breakfast right now (but without mushrooms, black pudding or tea - I'd prefer coffee)! I sometimes imagine that Arthur Seaton went on to become an author, moved to the States, got married, and then we pick up on his life later on in another Finney film, Shoot the Moon.

[@simonedgbaston]

One of the best rememered Albert ❤

[@eddie12454]

Finney was superb in one of the greatest U K films. R I P.

[@anthonyhamer6158]

WISH THESE KIND OF FILMS WERE ON TELLY A BIT MORE

[@keengro3740]

so many of my hero's gone. R I P Albert Finney

[@luisminumerouno]

The Character Albert Finney plays was lucky to have lived in those Times , where are the Jobs now ,where have all the Manufacturing,Engineering Firms now? where are the Jobs and Apprenticeships? The Man Who was and still is in My opinion the Main Wage Earner could better Himself then well I could go on but Albert Finney was a wonderful Actor and played this Part like No One else could RIP Albert Finney.

[@Q.Gold30]

Well said Vivien

[@Dinvadbhatmarathi98]

The Tories privatised everything now the dentists are privatised and soon the NHS will be as well making the poor more poor and the rich more rich all factories and jobs for cheap Labour have moved to third world countries

[@jpowell180]

Back in 1989, I knew this one bloke who told me he didn't want to live to be 40, and that he just wanted to have fun, drink at the pub & fall down the stairs like Arthur Seaton....

[@fab60s64]

jpowell180 yep, people use to take bets i would live too 20, so much crazy energy, then they said you wont live to 30! well im over 40 now and bored out of my mind

[@SteveHigginsWriterBloggerPoet]

love this movie!

[@pyewackett5]

Resign yrself to what is. It's relentless & never ending. Age blunts the spirit. Such is the fate to the ones who dare to realise that life could hold so many more possibilities than what is presented to you. Your lot in life according to yr status in the 'grand scheme of things'.

[@laminage]

I once heard that this was the Inspiration for Coronation St., I have the DVD & The Book and they are masterpieces. Would you say that Albert Finney's Character of Arthur Seaton was to the UK what Marlon Brando's Character was in On The Waterfront?

[@patricias5122]

Not nearly as subtle, but then the dialogue does not come close to Streetcar or Waterfront.

[@luke-dq7jo]

Rip albert

[@voicevoice2053]

One of the first kitchen sink ' Rebel' films...

[@lexusuk7901]

Properly chuckled at this!

[@jpowell180]

Why does this film make me want to chug down some pints? ;)

[@heighwaysonthewing]

lol me too, it's just got that feel to it, yes have a pint and a fight on a Saturday night..

[@jclm4188]

rip albert.i was a production machinst.horrible job

[@haydensnell9132]

Well I’m only here because of morrissey,looks like a good movie.

[@hebneh]

What's he making on his machine?

[@jackledger8877]

Drilling bottom brackets to accept crank arms that the pedals attach to.

[@neil5551]

matt quite right not Lennon though! Eric Burdon did not write that song he sung it! anyway a great film even Halliwell recons it! ta ta

[@alexandraponce8081]

Had no idea he was quite attractive! (Albert Finney)

[@billytheschmid]

I'm a straight male, but I'm happy you found out.

[@Dybbouk]

We call these kitchen sink dramas. Realistic, working class stories

[@humberchristopher29]

Please make those bottom bracket spindles cotterless for the new Raleigh cotterless crankset! The Germans had cotterless cranks back before W.W.1 So, Why not Raleigh?

[@martinsmith6049]

Geek, bro

[@jamespalacio9124]

reminds me of my brother canny

[@Telstar62a]

"Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not" .... not just an Arctic Monkeys title.

[@siliconesal]

He was a big fish in a big pool

[@JodeneElizabethBeavers]

Sad loss.

[@ImYourHuckleberry_29]

Don't let the bastards grind you down. Acrobat by U2. Homage.

[@pix046]

He got ground down. Well, beaten up, anyway.

[@voiskumbeaver3285]

pix046 He's constantly being warned about his impending comeuppance throughout the film. First by his cousin Bert, then Old Ma Bull. You know something's going to happen before the end.

[@splinterbyrd]

This film could be renamed _Portrait Of Margaret Thatcher As A Young Man_

[@IHeartHumbug]

fuckin class film

[@nottinghamshireandderbyshi1888]

When Britain was working no so much now all gone abroad

[@elizaheathen]

who wants to write a 20pg paper for me on this?

[@dange160650]

He thought he was a rebel but he was,nt, he got pissed the same as the other knobheads, and ended up with a deadhead girlfriend, he should have joined a rock and roll band, and kicked ass, like me

[@deanslife1]

dange160650 deadhead gf? She was a nice girl, polite, nice voice and a goodlooking sort. Girls like these jack the lad types. She wasnt no deadhead compared to him