# Saturday Night Out > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Saturday_Night_Out > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Saturday_Night_Out.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Out > Source revision: 1349636058 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1964 British film by Robert Hartford-Davis Saturday Night Out Directed by Robert Hartford-Davis Written by Derek Ford Donald Ford Produced by Michael Klinger Tony Tenser Starring Heather Sears John Bonney Bernard Lee Cinematography Peter Newbrook Edited by Alastair McIntyre Music by Robert Richards Production companies Compton Films Tekli British Productions Distributed by Compton-Cameo Films (UK) Release date April 1964 (1964-04) (UK) Running time 100 minutes Country United Kingdom Language English ***Saturday Night Out*** is a 1964 British [comedy](/source/Comedy_film)-[drama film](/source/Drama_film) directed by [Robert Hartford-Davis](/source/Robert_Hartford-Davis) and starring [Heather Sears](/source/Heather_Sears), [John Bonney](/source/John_Bonney_(actor)), [Bernard Lee](/source/Bernard_Lee), [Erika Remberg](/source/Erika_Remberg), [Francesca Annis](/source/Francesca_Annis), [Margaret Nolan](/source/Margaret_Nolan) and [David Lodge](/source/David_Lodge_(actor)).[1] It was written by [Derek Ford](/source/Derek_Ford) and Donald Ford. It is known for its portrayal of early [Swinging London](/source/Swinging_London).[2] ## Plot A trio of merchant seamen and several passengers disembark from their ship when it arrives at the [Pool of London](/source/Pool_of_London) and go out for a Saturday night's entertainment in the city. ## Cast - [Heather Sears](/source/Heather_Sears) as Penny - [John Bonney](/source/John_Bonney_(actor)) as Lee - [Bernard Lee](/source/Bernard_Lee) as George Hudson - [Erika Remberg](/source/Erika_Remberg) as Wanda - [Colin Campbell](/source/Colin_Campbell_(actor)) as Jamey - [Francesca Annis](/source/Francesca_Annis) as Jean - [Inigo Jackson](/source/Inigo_Jackson) as Harry - [Vera Day](/source/Vera_Day) as Arlene - [Caroline Mortimer](/source/Caroline_Mortimer) as Marline - [Margaret Nolan](/source/Margaret_Nolan) as Julie - [David Lodge](/source/David_Lodge_(actor)) as Arthur - [Nigel Green](/source/Nigel_Green) as Paddy - Toni Gilpin as Margaret - Barbara Roscoe as Miss Bingo - [Martine Beswick](/source/Martine_Beswick) as barmaid - [Patricia Hayes](/source/Patricia_Hayes) as Edie's mother - [Derek Bond](/source/Derek_Bond) as Paul - [Freddie Mills](/source/Freddie_Mills) as Joe - [The Searchers](/source/The_Searchers_(band)) as themselves - [David Burke](/source/David_Burke_(British_actor)) as manager - Shirley Cameron as Edie - Patsy Fagan as barmaid - Gerry Gibson as doorman - [Barry Langford](/source/Barry_Langford) as barman - Janet Milner as waitress - Wendy Newton as Kathy - Jack Taylor as landlord ## Production The film was an [independent](/source/Independent_film) production shot at [Shepperton Studios](/source/Shepperton_Studios) and [on location](/source/Location_shooting) around [London](/source/London). Locations in East London include Pennyfields, Poplar High Street and West India Dock Road.[3] The film's set were designed by the [art director](/source/Art_director) [Peter Proud](/source/Peter_Proud). ## Critical reception *[Monthly Film Bulletin](/source/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."[4] *[Variety](/source/Variety_(magazine))* 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."[5] The *[New Statesman](/source/New_Statesman)* wrote: "Consistently ridiculous, *Saturday Night Out* is the latest thing to come from that egregious team who gave us *[The Yellow Teddybears](/source/The_Yellow_Teddy_Bears)*. 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](/source/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."[6] ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-BFIsearch_1-0)** ["The Black Torment"](https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150052950). *British Film Institute Collections Search*. Retrieved 2 December 2023. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-hamilton_2-0)** John Hamilton, *Beasts in the Cellar: The Exploitation Film Career of Tony Tenser*, Fab Press, 2005, p 30-33 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [https://www.reelstreets.com/films/saturday-night-out/](https://www.reelstreets.com/films/saturday-night-out/) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Saturday Night Out"](https://www.proquest.com/docview/1305824069). *[Monthly Film Bulletin](/source/Monthly_Film_Bulletin)*. **31** (360): 77. 1964. [ProQuest](/source/ProQuest) [1305824069](https://www.proquest.com/docview/1305824069). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Saturday Night Out"](https://www.proquest.com/docview/1014827683). *[Variety](/source/Variety_(magazine))*. **234** (4): 6. 18 March 1964. [ProQuest](/source/ProQuest) [1014827683](https://www.proquest.com/docview/1014827683). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["Saturday Night Out"](https://www.proquest.com/docview/1306916318). *[New Statesman](/source/New_Statesman)*. **67**: 375. 1964. [ProQuest](/source/ProQuest) [1306916318](https://www.proquest.com/docview/1306916318). ## External links - [*Saturday Night Out*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057472/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) - [*Saturday Night Out*](https://www.reelstreets.com/films/saturday-night-out/) at [ReelStreets](https://www.reelstreets.com/) v t e Films directed by Robert Hartford-Davis Crosstrap (1962) The Yellow Teddy Bears (1963) The Black Torment (1964) Saturday Night Out (1964) Gonks Go Beat (1965) The Sandwich Man (1966) Corruption (1967) The Smashing Bird I Used to Know (1969) Incense for the Damned (1970) Nobody Ordered Love (1972) The Fiend (1972) Black Gunn (1972) The Take (1974) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Saturday Night Out](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Out) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Out?action=history)). 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