Stars: Ian Carmichael, Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough, Irene Handl, John Le Mesurier, Dennis Price, Margaret Rutherford, Terry-Thomas, Liz Fraser

Director: John Boulting

Summary: A common worker breaks into industry in his uncle's missile plant. Becoming the pawn of both the corrupt management and a labour union determined nobody will be fired through incompetence or laziness, he causes a major strike, pushing the economy to the brink of collapse.

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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The 1959 I'm All Right Jackset Peter Sellers on the road to international stardom after his decade on radio in The Goons. As later in Dr Strangelove, Sellers here plays multiple roles--both Sir John Kennaway and, unforgettably, the bolshie trades-union leader Fred Kite. The result is laugh-out-loud comedy with a satirical 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 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. It's a sequel to the 1956 Private's Progressbut 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) and Carlton-Browne of the FO(1959). The superb cast of I'm All Right Jackalso features Richard Attenborough, John Le Mesurier, Margaret Rutherford and Terry Thomas. --Gary S. Dalkin

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Year:	1959
Release Date:	February 16, 2004
Runtime:	100 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	D 038155
Keywords:	Right, Comedy, Jack, General, Alright, All, I'm
Genre:	Comedy