I'm All Right Jack

I'm All Right Jack
by John Boulting

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Actor: Dennis Price, Ian Carmichael, Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough, Terry-Thomas
Director: John Boulting
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-01-21
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay

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Movie Review: Sellers' best piece of work
Summary: 5 Stars

This formula Boulting Bros. satire is broad and wide swiping. No section of 1950s British society is protected from its sting. It was a very apt piece of satire, and I am very happy to say, works as well today as it did on its release. It is actually quite nostalgic to watch now, because many of the elements lampooned here are now distant memories, bad or good. The film is rich in detail and the screenplay is very well crafted, but what I like about it most is that it captures the essence of British culture at the time, the general industrial scene and the attitudes and reputations of the British worker generally, and those of the British corporate employer. It is very much 'them and us' and portrays the role of the then mighty union as the tool of the devil that damages the reputation of Great Britain itself. But it also shows the corporate employers as priveliged, detached fat cat schemers whose main aim in life is to make a lot of money without getting their hands dirty, and couldn't give a stuff about the riff raff they are forced to employ, hence the catchphrase title 'I'm Alright Jack'. It is wonderfully catty stuff that ensues between the two classes, when a couple of greedy executives conspire to use the work force's militancy to aid a crooked deal of theirs.

Sellers gives a masterclass in caricature as he plays the died in the wool 'old labour' union shop steward to a tee. His pretentions of intellectualism are hilariously accurate about that very real type of character in British society of the day. Equally as funny are his rather fastidious habits and his priggishness and sense of values. His burning sense of pride has made him as much of a snob as the chinless plutocrats who are by definition his sworn enemies. It is a magnificent and thoroughly entertaining performance within a clever and entertaining film. Highly recommended to Brit com lovers and Sellers fans alike.

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Summary of I'm All Right Jack

After a decade on radio, Peter Sellers set out on the road to international stardom in 1959's I'm All Right Jack. Sellers played both Sir John Kennaway and, unforgettably, the trade union leader Fred Kite (he had taken multiple roles in The Mouse That Roared and would do so again in Dr. Strangelove). The result is laugh-out-loud comedy with a satiric edge, lampooning the then-burning issue of industrial relations. Bertram Tracepurcel (Dennis Price) plans to make a fortune from a missile contract, a scheme that involves manipulating his innocent nephew Stanley Windrush (Ian Carmichael) into acting as the catalyst in an escalating labor dispute, from which the socialist Mr. Kite is only too keen to make capital. Management and labor both have their self-serving hypocrisy dissected in this ingenious comedy, which is actually a sequel to the military comedy Private's Progress (1956), but stands independent of the earlier film. Both films were made by the brothers John and Roy Boulting, directors and producers of such British classics as Brighton Rock (1947), Seven Days to Noon (1950), Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959), and Heavens 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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