 "Charlie Bubbles" was not only Albert Finney's debut as a director, but was also the last time he directed a box-office film.The film is a slightly surreal offshoot of the kitchen sink drama, in which Finney had achieved stardom through starring in Karel Reisz's "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" of 1960.Shelagh Delaney had also achieved fame as the writer of another film in this genre, Tony Richardson's 1961 "A Taste of Honey".