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By one of those strange twists of fate that have accompanied the Stranglers throughout their career, Hugh's last concert with the band was recorded for posterity. This recording was eventually released as "Saturday Night, Sunday Morning". The album's title is a reference to the gig happening on a Saturday night and Hugh announcing his departure the following day.
Following defiant factory worker Arthur Seaton (Finney), "SaturdayNight and SundayMorning" 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, "SaturdayNight..." offered newcomer Finney the chance to really show what he could do on-screen.
"SaturdayNight and SundayMorning" is reissued as part of the British New Wave season at London's Barbican Centre on Friday 11th October 2002.
Set in the gray industrial town of Nottingham, Alan Sillitoe's novel SATURDAYNIGHT AND SUNDAYMORNING, with all of its bleak realism, is successfully adapted to the screen with a powerful performance by Albert Finney in his first starring role.
Their love scenes are controversial for the palpable expression of real sexual pleasure that Roberts shows in the role of an ordinary English housewife, and because of the fact that she receives, from a handsome younger man, the sexual fulfillment that her husband can not provide.
SATURDAYNIGHT AND SUNDAYMORNING, with it's mix of contemporary alienation, a fantastic jazz score, and a realistic atmosphere, resonates with Finney's charm and unexplainable rage at the world.
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