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After a decade on radio in The Goons, 1959's I'm All Right Jack set Peter Sellers on the road to international stardom. Sellers played both Sir John Kennaway, and unforgettably, the Bolshy trade union leader Fred Kite (he would go on to take three roles in Dr Strangelove and featured endless disguises in The Pink Panther in 1963) series. The result is laugh-out-loud comedy with a satiric edge, lampooning the then burning issue of industrial relations. Bertram Tracepurcel's (Dennis Price) plans to make a fortune from a missile contract, a scheme which involves manipulating his innocent nephew Stanley Windrush (Ian Carmichael) into acting as the catalyst in an escalating labour dispute, from which the socialist Mr Kite is only too keen to make capital. Management and labour both have their self-serving hypocrisy dissected in this ingenious comedy, actually a sequel to the military comedy Private's Progress (1956), but which stands independent of the earlier film. Both films were made by the brothers John and Roy Boulting, director and producer of such British classics as Brighton Rock (1947), Seven Days to Noon (1950), Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959) and Heaven's Above (1963). The superb cast of I'm All Right Jack also features Richard Attenborough, John Le Mesurier, Margaret Rutherford and Terry Thomas. --Gary S. Dalkin
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.66:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Anamorphic Widescreen, Black & White, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Set in the 1950s in Britain, this award-winning social comedy by director and co-writer John Boulting features Ian Carmichael as the inept Stanley Windrush, a hopeless twit with -- we are to believe -- an Oxford degree. Unlike others in his social circle, Stanley wants to work. When he tries out for jobs in industry with the full expectation of working his way into a management position, he sets off disasters and alienates his interviewers. So his uncle gives him a job in his munitions factory, knowing what an idiot he is, and relying on him to eventually cause a strike (the uncle needs this for his own reasons). Fred Kite (Peter Sellers in a performance that would launch him as an international star) takes Stanley under his wing yet that does not exactly turn out as expected either. Stanley screws up by accidentally being too efficient, and the entire British work force is affected. If one can accept a portrayal of factory workers as shiftless men unwilling to work, and managers as good 'ole boys whose jobs are gained only by networking, then this film will be all the more entertaining. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: BAFTA Awards, ...I'm All Right Jack
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37 of 37 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wicked satire of unions and management, Sellers's best ever,
This review is from: I'm Alright Jack [VHS] (VHS Tape)
The amazon review has it right; Sellers was never as brilliant as in this cracking Boulting Bros. satire. It's also the best of Ian Carmichael's film classic trifecta as the innocent upper-class twit turned Everyman. Sellers gets the most attention in most reviews, but I'm Alright Jack also boasts perhaps the best comedic ensemble ever, from the quiver-lipped time-study man John le Mesurier to the closet Tory Irene Handl (wife of Commie shop steward Sellers), from Liz Fraser (in pointy-bra'd perfection) to the always welcome Margaret Rutherford -- and then there's the unnamed union slugabeds working at the missile factory, the earnest but comic managers at the companies Carmichael visits. . .oh, and we haven't even mentioned Dickie Attenborough and Terry-Thomas, have we? Look -- any film that starts out with Churchill's V-for-Victory being returned with a workingman's two-fingered "salute" is going to be truly wicked, and this one really satisfies. An underappreciated masterpiece.
54 of 56 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A British Comedy Classic!,
By E. A. Redfearn "eredfearn2" (Middlesbrough) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: I'm Alright Jack [DVD] (DVD)
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.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
brilliant comedy and social satire,
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This review is from: I'm Alright Jack [VHS] (VHS Tape)
This is hilarious,even if you're not interested in the satirizing of British trade unions and management. Sellers is brilliant as a trade union man who idolizes Soviet Russia. He's never been there but believes workers work in the fields in the day and go to the ballet at night. Meanwhile the management are totally greedy and self serving. In between these 2 comes Ian Carmichael as an honest working man. He moves in with Sellers and meets his daughter played by gorgeous busty Liz Fraser,this wasn't Liz's first film but this was her first big break. She has many scenes in it,definitely one for Liz fans as well as lovers of classic comedy. Brilliant.
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