I'm All Right Jack
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| Directed by | John Boulting |
| Produced by | Roy Boulting |
| Screenplay by |
Frank Harvey John Boulting |
| Based on |
Private Life by Alan Hackney |
| Starring |
Ian Carmichael Peter Sellers Richard Attenborough Margaret Rutherford Terry-Thomas |
| Music by | Ken Hare Ron Goodwin |
| Cinematography | Mutz Greenbaum |
| Edited by | Anthony Harvey |
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| Distributed by | British Lion Films (UK) |
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101 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
I'm All Right Jack is a 1959 British comedy film directed and produced by John and Roy Boulting from a script by Frank Harvey, John Boulting and Alan Hackney based on the novel Private Life by Hackney. The film is a sequel to the Boultings' 1956 film Private's Progress and Ian Carmichael, Dennis Price, Richard Attenborough, Terry-Thomas and Miles Malleson reprise their characters. Peter Sellers played one of his best-known roles, as the trades union shop steward Fred Kite and won a Bafta Best Actor Award. The rest of the cast included many well-known British comedy actors of the time.
The film is a satire on British industrial life in the 1950s. The trade unions, workers and bosses are all seen to be incompetent or corrupt to varying degrees. The film is one of a number of satires made by the Boulting Brothers between 1956 and 1963.
The title is a well-known English expression indicating smug and complacent selfishness, with an implied "fuck you!".
After leaving the army and returning to university, newly graduated upper class Stanley Windrush (Ian Carmichael) is looking for a job but fails miserably at interviews for various entry level management positions. Stanley's uncle, Bertram Tracepurcel (Dennis Price) and his old army comrade, Sidney DeVere Cox (Richard Attenborough), persuade him to take an unskilled blue-collar job at Uncle Bertram's missile factory, despite Aunt Dolly's (Margaret Rutherford) misgivings.
At first suspicious of the overeager newcomer, communist shop steward Fred Kite (Peter Sellers) takes Stanley under his wing and even offers to take him in as a lodger. When Kite's curvaceous daughter Cynthia (Liz Fraser) drops by, Stanley readily accepts.
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