Picaresque

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

(1961)

A very young Albert Finney plays a good-hearted but sexually irresponsible young man who turns out to be the natural heir of his protector Squire Alworthy . . . oh, wait, no: wrong flick. This one is set in modern times, and Finney's Arthur is an assembly-line worker in a dreary factory in Nottingham. But apart from being a tad less naïve--and discounting the fact that his competitive consumption scene is much less sexy--Arthur is pretty much Tom Jones updated.