I'm All Right Jack (1959)

Directed by

John Boulting

Genre

comedy film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 82 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A naive upper-class man takes a job in a factory. He causes chaos by trying to do his work properly, angering both lazy workers and corrupt bosses. The film mocks everyone involved in British industry.

satiricalwittyplayfulsharpcynicallightheartedtongue-in-cheekbrisk

What happens

I'm All Right Jack is a 1959 British comedy film directed and produced by John and Roy Boulting from a script by Frank Harvey, John Boulting, and Alan Hackney, based on the 1958 novel Private Life by Alan Hackney. The film is a sequel to the Boultings' 1956 film Private's Progress and Ian Carmichael, Dennis Price, Richard Attenborough, Terry-Thomas, and Miles Malleson reprise their characters. Peter Sellers played one of his best-remembered roles as trades union shop steward Fred Kite and won a BAFTA Best Actor Award. The rest of the cast included many well-known British comedy actors of the time. The film is a satire on British industrial life in the 1950s. The title is a well-known English expression indicating smug and complacent selfishness. The trade unions, workers and bosses are all seen to be incompetent or corrupt. The film is one of the satires made by the Boulting Brothers between 1956 and 1963. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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