Saturday Night Out (1964)Director:Robert Hartford-Davis |
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Saturday Night Out (1964)Director:Robert Hartford-Davis |
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Heather Sears | ... |
Penny
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| John Bonney | ... |
Lee
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| Bernard Lee | ... |
George Hudson
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Erika Remberg | ... |
Wanda
(as Erica Remberg)
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Colin Campbell | ... |
Jamey
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| Francesca Annis | ... |
Jean
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Inigo Jackson | ... |
Harry
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Vera Day | ... |
Arlene
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Caroline Mortimer | ... |
Marlene
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David Lodge | ... |
Arthur
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Nigel Green | ... |
Paddy
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Toni Gilpin | ... |
Margaret
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Barbara Roscoe | ... |
Miss Bingo
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| Margaret Nolan | ... |
Julie
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| Martine Beswick | ... |
Barmaid
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The British films of the swinging sixties are typified for their crashing through the art barriers and doing things that had never been done before. Sometimes it came off; sometimes - well, all too often, to be exact - it didn't. Compare this with the "straight films" of the 1950s. Between these two phases of British cinema, there were a "special years" transitory phase: the straightness of the past was laid side by side with the oncoming weirdness of the swinging sixties. This is such a film.
The film follows the adventures of some merchant seamen on a London night out, before they return to their ship in the morning. There are some memorable scenes in this film. These include the "boyfriend" who is in a meditative trance, the know-all sailor getting his comeuppance, when he gets ripped off in a clip joint, and Bernard Lee voluntarily writing a cheque for ten pounds after a failed blackmail attempt. All this, and The Searchers playing in a pub, too.
It is a typical British B movie of the period, and is quite watchable.