Director Karel Reisz's adaptation of Alan Sillitoe's novel about a hard-living factory worker and the married woman he seduces. Arthur Seaton (Albert Finney) is a young man filled with a rage perhaps even he doesn't fully understand. Working in the tough environment of a Nottingham factory, he compensates for the drudgery and discipline of his weekday life with weekends spent drinking and womanising. His affair with a fellow factory worker's wife, Brenda (Rachel Roberts), seems especially ill-advised - particularly when Brenda informs him that she is pregnant with his child. With abortion illegal at the time, Arthur and Brenda face a difficult dilemma. Will Arthur face up to the kind of domestic responsibilities he openly scorns in his own parents, or run harder than ever?
Director: Karel Reisz
Producer: Tony Richardson
Writer: Alan Sillitoe
Music: Johnny Dankworth
Cinematographer: Freddie Francis
Actor: Albert Finney
Actor: Shirley Anne Field
Actor: Hylda Baker
Actor: Rachel Roberts
Actor: Bryan Pringle
Actor: Norman Rossington
Actor: Robert Cawdron
Actor: Elsie Wagstaff
Actor: Edna Morris
Actor: Frank Pettitt
Executive Producer: Harry Saltzman