This seminal film of the British New Wave was a great box-office success audiences were thrilled by its anti-establishment energy, gritty realism, and above all by its fresh, outspoken working-class hero. In the industrial streets and factories of Nottingham, Arthur Seaton (Albert Finney) spends his days at the factory bench, his evenings in the local pubs and his nights in the arms of Brenda, the wife of a fellow factory worker.