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I'm All Right Jack [DVD] [1959]

DVD ~ Ian Carmichael
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  • Actors: Ian Carmichael, Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough, Irene Handl, John Le Mesurier
  • Directors: John Boulting
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: U
  • Studio: Optimum Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 5 Feb 2007
  • Run Time: 101 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000KRNMNK
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,983 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Though it may be distinguished by its virtuosic comedic performances from Terry-Thomas and Peter Sellers, I'M ALL RIGHT, JACK, John Boulting's sly satire of class struggle, is a comic gem in its own right. The film stars Ian Carmichael as Stanley Windrush, a recent Oxford graduate and old money aristocrat who decides to work for a living. Deciding to keep his background a secret, Stanley takes a menial position at his uncle's armaments factory, where his incompetence arouses the suspicion of his fellow labourers and the sympathy of the loony Works Committee boss (Sellers). Soon, the good-hearted Stanley finds himself in the middle of the complex class struggle between management and labour and the pawn in his wicked uncle's crooked scheme. The scenes at Windrush Senior's naturist colony, where Stanley goes for advice, are particularly delightful. I'M ALL RIGHT, JACK is noteworthy for also for winning two BAFTA awards in 1960 for Peter Sellers' performance and for Best British Screenplay.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A British Comedy Classic!, 11 Jan 2007
By E. A. Redfearn "eredfearn2" (Middlesbrough) - See all my reviews
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I recall seeing this film during 1959 at the local Odeon, and to this day, remains one of my favourite comedy films of all time.

Ian Carmichael plays an upper class twit who after leaving University, fails to find employment due to his incompetance and niavety during various visits to factories and offices. Some of these scenes are quite hilarious, especially the one in the cake factory. His Uncle Tracepercil(Denis Price) finds him a job in a local warehouse where unknowingly he causes a strike with the local workforce which escalates into a national strike almost shutting down the British economy.

This is one of those rare British comedies which suceeds on every level, mainly due to the various actors around at the time, everyone of them being a household name. Peter Sellars is brilliant as the shop steward Fred Kite; Terry Thomas is the Personnel Officer, and Richard Attenborough plays Cox a rival manufacturer who is actually in league with Tracepercil (Denis Price) by causing industrial unrest so that a rival company would obtain a working contract from a foreign buyer.

Irene Handl, Liz Fraser, Victor Maddern, Kenneth Griffith, and the wonderful character actress Margaret Rutherford all contribute to this laugh a minute comedy. Although it is often shown on television, a new generation of viewers should see this because it does give an insight into the British Class system of the 1950s. Wonderful entertainment.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Evergreen British Classic, 28 May 2008
By Lou Knee (England) - See all my reviews
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Would be on most people's top 50 British films ever made list. It is way up there on entertainment value, and as a critique of 1950s life at work it is as good as a documentary. Very astute, very cleverly plotted, magnificently played, this is a film that seems to get even better with age, possibly because most of the practices satirised here are nostalgic memories now, however damaging they were. It takes you back to a day when jobs seemed safe for life, and even being sacked for incompetence was fairly rare if you belonged to one of the big unions. That the unions remained really powerful for another twenty years after this very critical film was made shows just how strong they were - Oh how things have changed! To be fair, this film attacks both sides, showing the silver spooned bosses to be amoral insider dealers and totally detached from their lowly and troublesome 'workers'. Of course it is caricature, but if the reputation hadn't been very much there in the first place then such a movie wouldn't have had such a treasure trove of targets to send up and satirise and generally have a good old dig at. This fine movie really fills its boots. And I haven't even mentioned the performance of a lifetime from Peter Sellers.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I'm All Right Jack, 21 Mar 2009
Excellent Excellent, Peter Sellars at his Ealing best, before he became Hollywoodised. The entire cast were the very best of British comedy. Irene Handl as Mum is superb. What more can I say buy it and have a really good laugh.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I`m all right Jack
A very funny comedy film with some members of the cast who sadly are not with us any more and could not be replaced with comedy actors of today. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars old black and white
Despite being an old black and white,this film is still a british classic,and is still capable of holding its own today
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