Saturday Night Out
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Plot
A trio of merchant seamen and several passengers disembark from their ship when it arrives at the Pool of London and go out for a Saturday night's entertainment in the city.
Cast
- Heather Sears as Penny
- John Bonney as Lee
- Bernard Lee as George Hudson
- Erika Remberg as Wanda
- Colin Campbell as Jamey
- Francesca Annis as Jean
- Inigo Jackson as Harry
- Vera Day as Arlene
- Caroline Mortimer as Marline
- Margaret Nolan as Julie
- David Lodge as Arthur
- Nigel Green as Paddy
- Toni Gilpin as Margaret
- Barbara Roscoe as Miss Bingo
- Martine Beswick as barmaid
- Patricia Hayes as Edie's mother
- Derek Bond as Paul
- Freddie Mills as Joe
- The Searchers as themselves
- David Burke as Manager
- Shirley Cameron as Edie
- Patsy Fagan as barmaid
- Gerry Gibson as doorman
- Barry Langford as barman
- Janet Milner as waitress
- Wendy Newton as Kathy
- Jack Taylor as landlord
Production
The film was an independent production shot at Shepperton Studios and on location around London.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". The film's set were designed by the art director Peter Proud.
Critical reception
Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Routine multi-stranded story of sailors on the town – meeting nice girls, meeting floozy girls, getting drunk, being robbed and so forth. Both script and direction, though striving hard to inject a flavouring of sex and wit, are colourless; but the acting is in general rather better than anything else in the film."[3]
Variety said: " Robert Hartford Davis is a sound director, but Saturday Night Out has fallen apart mainly because of poor, undistinguished dialog and predictable situations. There are some good glimpses of thesping, and locales are satisfactorily presented. ... Hartford-Davis has done a routine but uninspired job as director and producer. Perhaps the greatest disappointment in the film is the appearance of Miss Sears, after a longish layoff, in a role which gives poor scope for her talent."[4]
The New Statesman wrote: "Consistently ridiculous, Saturday Night Out is the latest thing to come from that egregious team who gave us The Yellow Teddybears. In this one Robert Hartford-Davis follows the fortunes of four disembarked matelots and a passenger (Bernard Lee), separately hotfoot after a bit of you-know-what in and around London's square-mile of vice. The lackadaisical direction, particularly inept in a kind of Christopher Robin interlude with a girl beatnik that is patently there to lend both tone and scope to an otherwise sordid outing, incredibly sharpens during a little descent into a Soho clip-joint – admonitory and marvellously played."[5]
References
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External links
- Script error: No such module "If empty". at IMDbTemplate:EditAtWikidataScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:WikidataCheck
- Saturday Night Out at ReelStreets
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- 1964 films
- 1964 comedy-drama films
- Films directed by Robert Hartford-Davis
- British comedy-drama films
- Films set in London
- Films shot in London
- Films shot at Shepperton Studios
- 1960s English-language films
- 1960s British films
- English-language comedy-drama films