For any Arctic Monkeys fans who don't know already, "Whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not" came from this seminal 1960 film, the first to put working-class life on screen, bluntly and without condescension.

Adapting his novel, Alan Sillitoe's screenplay is hugely quotable. You get "Don't let the bastards grind you down" and "I'm out for a good time – all the rest is propaganda" in the first two minutes. Albert Finney's acting still seems wonderfully fresh and aggressive as a lippy lad on the make. Emigre Czech director Karel Reisz's film, much of it shot in Nottingham locations, presents a vanished world of factories, cobbles and cramped back-to-back houses.

The ever-impressive Shirley Anne Field contributes a contemporary interview, claiming the film "affected people and changed their lives" and preferring "social realism" to the "kitchen sink" label stuck on to working-class drama at the time. Now almost 50 years old, it acts as both social document and pointer to the future.