I'm All Right Jack
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| I'm All Right Jack | |
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| Image:00imallrightjackos.jpg original film poster | |
| Directed by | John Boulting |
| Produced by | Roy Boulting |
| Written by | John Boulting Frank Harvey |
| Starring | Ian Carmichael Peter Sellers Richard Attenborough Margaret Rutherford Terry-Thomas |
| Music by | Ron Goodwin Ken Hare |
| Cinematography | Mutz Greenbaum |
| Editing by | Anthony Harvey |
| Distributed by | British Lion Films |
| Release date(s) | 1959 |
| Running time | 101 min. |
| Country | U.K. |
| Language | English |
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I'm All Right Jack is a British comedy film directed and produced by John and Roy Boulting.
It is a satire on British industrial life in the 1950s in which 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, and is a sequel to their 1956 film Private's Progress. Ian Carmichael, Dennis Price, Richard Attenborough, Terry-Thomas and Miles Malleson all return as the same characters from the earlier film. Peter Sellers also got one of his best roles, as the Trade Union shop steward Fred Kite, and won a Best Actor Award from the British Academy.
The rest of the cast reads as a "Who's Who" of English comedy actors of the time.
Curiously, some trade unionists have rather enjoyed it in an ironic way, since the shop steward Fred Kite is the most interesting character, and it was one of the few films of that time to deal even halfway seriously with trade unionism and factory life.
[edit] Cast
- Ian Carmichael (Stanley Windrush)
- Peter Sellers (Fred Kite)
- Terry-Thomas (Major Hitchcock)
- Richard Attenborough (Sydney de Vere Cox)
- Dennis Price (Bertram Tracepurcel)
- Margaret Rutherford (Aunt Dolly)
- Irene Handl (Mrs Kite)
- Liz Fraser (Cynthia Kite)
- Miles Malleson (Windrush Snr)
- Marne Maitland (Mr Mohammed)
- John Le Mesurier (Waters)
- Raymond Huntley (Magistrate)
- Victor Maddern (Knowles)
- Kenneth Griffith (Dai)
- Cardew Robinson - a shop steward
- Terry Scott - Crawley
- Alun Owen - film producer
- David Lodge - card player
- Sam Kydd - shop steward
- Wally Patch - worker
In addition, Malcolm Muggeridge appears as himself, as does television announcer Muriel Young.
[edit] Crew
- Screenplay Frank Harvey, John Boulting from the novel Private Life by Alan Hackney
- Director John Boulting
- Producer Roy Boulting
- Cinematographer Max Greenbaum
- Music Ken Hare, Ron Goodwin
- Editor Anthony Harvey
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