Export or die: missiles for peace in the Middle East. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the bottom and work his way up, and also that the management as well as the trade union use him as a tool in their fight for power. The film makers do not take the easy route in blaming one party or another but holds them all up to scrutiny. Near masterpiece from the brilliant Boulting brothers. Reminiscent of Swift or Pope: "God and Nature bade self-love and social be the same." Having left his university post, he begins looking for a job. The Boulting Brothers certainly pulled this off, and the film is a famous classic. 'Ere, shut the bleeding door ! All the King's Men (1949) is the fictionalized account of the rise and fall of a backwoods rebel - a story inspired by the rule (and abuse of power) of Louisiana's colorful state governor (1928-32) and Democratic U.S. 'I'm All Right Jack' has gone down in British film history as a celebrated satire on industrial disputes. It also attacks factory owners who actually exploit this to their own interests. Metacritic Reviews. He boasts to his Oxford-educated gentleman lodger about the summer course he took at the university once, reminding him in a familiar fashion about the very good marmalade and toast provided by the college, while the obviously wealthy young man politely admits that he wasn't acquainted with the public dining hall during his years there. The earlier film, Private's Progress , is funny, but I'm All Right, Jack is both funny and observant in the knowing and telling ways that are the hallmarks of good satire. A masterful black comedy of worker/management relations. During the 1977 strike at the Grunwick film processing plant in London,a large group of flying pickets led by Mr Arthur Scargill made the journey south from Yorkshire with the intention of preventing the "scabs" from going to work.They failed to do so,meeting firm resistance from the Metropolitan Police,during the course of which one of Mr Scargill's close cohorts was arrested.Once given bail he fled the country on the grounds that he wouldn't receive a fair trial in a police state and fled to Eastern Europe to seek sanctuary.Within a remarkably short time he returned to England,having experienced what living in a police state was really like.That sort of disillusionment I'm sure would have befallen Fred Kite had he ever visited the Workers' Paradise of his imaginings. He is a perfect realization in miniature of Taine's statement that there is nothing more dangerous than a general idea in a narrow, empty mind. )Mr Terry-Thomas picks his way gingerly through discarded clothing and unwashed cutlery,his moustache nearly drooping with unhappiness. Watch I'm All Right, Jack movie trailer and get the latest cast info, photos, movie review and more on TVGuide.com. Overall I find it a lazy and depressing film, its satire often disguising a snobby self-righteousness. Even if the premise that British industry is corrupt from top to bottom offends you,please remember that the Boulting Brothers did exactly the same axe job on the Army and the legal profession,and that should make you feel better. All of the other cast is great as well. There are no reviews yet. While Peter Sellers does put on a great performance, this really is Ian Carmichael's movie. After the second world war is over, a new spirit of togetherness is fostered in the UK, and industry blossoms. I’m OK now. (The director’s gift for comedy was manifested pretty spectacularly in his 1972 picture “The Ruling Class,” with Peter O’Toole as an aristocrat who believes he’s Christ. Ian Carmichael reprises his role as 'Stanley Windrush' (great name! Naive Stanley Windrush causes an industrial relations disaster when his workmates decide he is too eager in his job. Up at Balliol summer school you get very good toast and marmalade. A finer film on industrial relations has never been made and I doubt could be made now in the current climate of intellectual dishonesty. If it hadn't been for the fact that a similar (though less cynical) film had been made just a few years earlier (THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT), I might have scored this parody a bit higher. These days the film seems to be primarily remembered for Peter Sellers' magnificent caricature of socialist sanctimony, Fred Kite, but the whole gallery of players, many reprising roles from the earlier "Private's Progress," is excellent. By all rights Dennis Price and Richard Attenborough should have been doing some time in Her Majesty's jail. Then at the Num-Yum chocolate factory, he throws up in the machinery. Immortal and unforgettable lines, as is the delicate question put by the spindle-polisher: "Is them your own teeth ?" Ian Carmichael reprises his role as 'Stanley Windrush' ( great name! Few films of the late 1950s are as intelligent, even if the film is not seen often enough by current-day audiences. It's based on the novel Private Life by Hackney and is a sequel to the Boulting's 1956 film Private's Progress. The cast also includes Dennis Price, Margaret Rutherford, Victor Maddern, the deliciously droll and hilarious glamour gal Liz Fraser, John Le Mesurier, Kenneth Griffith, and Raymond Huntley. But in the end, you know everything is going to turn out all right, just like those children’s movies back in the ’70s or ’80s before everything was about how graphic you could go and still toss it to kids. Instead it's a laugh-a-minute story packed with great characterisations and an endless parade of famous faces. Tremendous story and script plus wonderful performances from a whole host of character actors, especially Peter Sellers and Terry-Thomas. The bosses, the unionists, the clients are all (rightly) shown as self motivated and cynical. It is a film that can be watched more than once, because the subtlety of the humour runs deep, and new pieces that escaped notice the first time can be detected in subsequent viewings. I'm All Right, Jack is the rare sequel that is better than its predecessor. Sam Kydd and Victor Madren are particularly telling as a couple of disgruntled workers,but the whole cast is a delightful I - Spy of the cream of British light comedy actors. A review of the Peter Sellers film I'm all right Jack in full The film belongs to the distinctly British genre of subversive working-class comedies, which would later include such films as Brassed Off and The Full Monty and even such non-comedies as Trainspotting. I decided I wasn’t going to work again and then Jack said, “I’ve got a movie called ... you can’t ruin my career now by giving me a bad review. Superior example of British comedy film making amongst a sea of duds. All of this seems inspired by one of those black and white British comedies from the 1950s - "The Man in the White Suit," perhaps, or "I'm All Right, Jack." A truly first class comedy that tells us more about the state of British Industry in 1959 than any serious drama from the same era. No point in working for nothing. Jeropardizing wilfully. Why cant they make films like this anymore. | Close. If Carlton-Browne of the FO (1958) extended the Boulting Brothers' subject matter into the arena of world politics, I'm All Right Jack (1959) brought them squarely back into a domestic setting. Commercial intercourse. This is frequently biting, often just funny, but overall it is more sad commentary. This is his revenge. A superb cast of the UK's finest character actors and an A1 script. He had been directed by John Boulting three years earlier in PRIVATE'S PROGRESS (1956, see my review), where he was even more brilliant. At first glance the tale of capitalist businessmen and their unionist rivals sounds like it could make for a deathly dull production, but I'M ALL RIGHT JACK turns out to be anything but boring. | The film has an intriguing start. Into this industrial maelstrom comes well-meaning incompetent Stanley Windrush(Mr Ian Carmichael) who has failed dismally at every other career path since leaving the army(see "Private's Progress").He is welcomed by the bosses (Mr Richard Attenborough and Mr Dennis Price as former army colleagues of Windrush) who see him as the right man to totally screw up the factory and leave it open to a takeover by nasty foreigner Mr Marne Maitland.Stanley soon comes to the attention of Fred Kite(Mr Peter Sellers) and his daughter(Miss Liz Fraser).Fred sees Stanley as a fellow intellectual,his daughter sees him as a prospective husband. While Peter Sellers (BAFTA for Best Actor) and a ream of British comedy actors of the time make up the rest of the cast. Dismissal for incompetence is totally unacceptable victimization. I'm All Right, Jack is the rare sequel that is better than its predecessor. Synopsis Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. What makes this film so funny is that those of us who have been in the workforce have seen many of the things shown in this film. Determined to offend everybody,"I'm all right Jack" succeeds admirably. I was quite surprised with this film, not because of liking it (I did), but just how much union politics the Boulting Brothers put on their sleeve with working on this movie. Reviews I'm All Right Jack Review Upper class ninny (Ian Carmichael) returns from the war imagining business success only to be the inadvertent cause of … I remember seeing this film at the ABC Golders Green when it first came out and it seemed pretty funny then.It was on Channel 4 recently and i just believe that this gets better with age.I just wonder why cant they make films like this anymore.Do we have to rely on TV and "Little Britain"to satirise modern Britain.There are just so many small as well as big laughs .It makes you think whether you saw that first time round.Everything about this film was so true about Britain at the time that it was made.I recall that the Boultings were involved with a dispute with trade unions over which they litigated and which i believe they lost.This was their way of getting revenge.Every character is perfectly cast from Sam Kydd and his memorable stutter to dear Margaret Rutherford who was at her comedic zenith in the cinema at that time.Of course Peter Sellers gives what must be one of the top 5 comedic performances in British cinema.His shop steward is just so perfect.Oh why don't they make films like this anymore? | It's many years since I last saw this. The travails of silly-ass hero Carmichael are only mildly amusing, but the film blazes into life . Not properly developed ? I’m All Right, Jack is a follow-up to Private’s Progress with the same writers (John Boulting, Frank Harvey and Alan Hackney) and many of the same actors, some in the same roles (eg Dennis Price’s Bertram Tracepurcel was the Brigadier). External Reviews I'm All Right Jack is directed and produced by John and Roy Boulting from a script by Frank Harvey, John Boulting and Alan Hackney. But his posh voice and gentle manner persuade the men he is really a time and motion man. It's based on the novel Private Life by Hackney and is a sequel to the Boulting's 1956 film Private's Progress. But Hopkins (who made this movie soon after winning the Oscar for "Lambs"), has a light in his eye that nudges the story to another level. I'm All Right, Jack (1960 Film) by John Boulting Man in a Cocked Hat (1960 Film) by Jeffrey Dell and Roy Boulting The Battle of the Sexes (1960 Film) by Charles Crichton However his enthusiasm gets him in trouble with the all-powerful unions – but is that what the bosses planned for all along? The only question was how did at least two of the repeating characters get out of the jackpot they were left in the previous film in order to be characters here. 4,748 Views . Watching it agian, it still holds up as being a hugely enjoyable film. British film-makers never got it more right than here. User Ratings The earlier film, Private's Progress, is funny, but I'm All Right, Jack is both funny and observant in the knowing and telling ways that are the hallmarks of good satire. "I'm All Right Jack" is a hilarious send up of the 20th century very much on point today, an anything-goes capitalist-meets-socialist system where workers and owners are equally victimized. The film was written and directed by John Boulting and produced by his brother Roy Boulting. One final note, it probably contains the most annoyingly catchy title song ever, it'll probably haunt your cranium for days. That just sets the stage for this brilliant British comedy/satire of labor troubles at Missiles Ltd. All is not what it appears in management as the less than honorable Director and his cronies arrange for conditions that cause the workers to strike, thereby benefiting the bosses in their nefarious plans. Audio An illustration of a 3.5" floppy disk. It's hard to believe this movie was released fifty years ago, barring its distinctly non-PC references to ethnic minorities. However some friends of the family, head of industry types get him a job with the workers at a missile factory. We have the bird by the bush in the hand. Absolute shower (filthy beast). A young man (Ian Carmichael) works too fast and causes problems with the labor union in "I'm All Right Jack," a 1959 British film directed by John Boulting. 'I'm All Right Jack' has gone down in British film history as a celebrated satire on industrial disputes. I'M ALL RIGHT JACK is a top comedy from John Boulting which makes use of the extraordinary talents of an ensemble British cast to fine effect. Demarcation. ), the naive young man we saw first in the Boulting Brothers' army comedy 'Private's Progress'. Sellers in particular is wonderful; his Fred Kite is a lower class striver who has acquired just enough education to give him an inflated idea of his own abilities, but not enough to realize the gaps and inadequacies in his views. “I wrote this song right after I found out all my shows were cancelled, and I’m like, ‘I’m still on that tightrope, I’m still trying everything to get you laughing at me.’” Quite a job. The cast alone is a triumph in this movie - some of the best British character actors who ever lived are here: Terry Thomas, Miles Malleson, John Le Mesurier, all backing up Ian Carmichael as the earnest, silly-ass upper-class bumbler and Peter Sellers as Fred Kite, the Marxist shop steward. For me, this is the best film of all time. There is no point in calling it "racist",it merely reflects the no doubt disgraceful attitudes of half a century ago,and it is an act of cultural vandalism to cut out parts that might offend the more delicate sensibilities of the early 21st century.Censorship is still censorship. Go to the content Go to the footer. OK, so they are exaggerated...a little. In my opinion, despite its age, this is certainly the finest comedy movie ever to have been produced in the UK. Revelant. The politics of the storyline are an absolute cliche, but the performances are so good, from a cast of some of Britains best comedy actors, that you can forget some of the cringingly simplistic plot assumptions. In a way this movie seems like a sort of crossroads in British comedy, poised between the warmer eccentricities of the Ealing films and and the screw-'em-all pop irreverence of the rising New Wave. Do you think you're Diana Dors ? So this film rips the lid off the most amazing collection of national hypocrisies, and we nearly die laughing and gasping with delight at the film's ingenuity and breath-taking boldness. The well-know comedian of the time, Terry-Thomas, plays a scheming capitalist fraudster. One of the best and most hilarious performances is by Irene Handl, that marvellous cockney character actress who tells everybody where to get off in no uncertain terms, and in this instance, her husband Peter Sellers (an earlier incarnation of Jeremy Corbyn). And the movie hews to the same vibe. I saw it on the big screen in 1960 (produced in 59), I remember being entrhralled by Liz Frasier in a tight sweater and how funny Ian Carmichael and Terry Thomas were and knocked out by Peter Sellers (in his breakout role as shop steward Mr Kite). This is a breathtakingly bold and audacious satirical film which was frankly unprecedented for British cinema in the 1950s. One of those horrid unions, like the Soviet Union. The experience still scars Medak, who considered Sellers a pal when they first resolved to work together. I’m all right. Their portrayal of corporate corruption was done with first-hand knowledge, as they were expert at ripping off their own company themselves, as I know from personal experience, when I refused to cooperate with them in a fraudulent transaction, so I do know what I am talking about. "All them cornfields.......and ballet in the evenings.....", Great send-up of manager versus labor union relations, `Nail-on-the-head' satire, very funny with a top class cast who's only weakness is it's slight anti-trade union feel, A brilliant and scathing satire of British class differences and working practices, Star-studded and hilarious tale of politics and business, Many of us have seen the scenarios before. Major Hitchcock ( Terry-Thomas ) offers to sack him, only to then be told this act will bring the whole workforce out on strike. In other words, just about everybody who was anybody in British film comedy at the time is in the film, the only actor seeming slightly ill at ease being Attenborough, who was never good at being funny. Senator (1932-35), notorious Huey Pierce Long - "The Kingfish." Best Film: Sons and Lovers; Best Foreign Film: The World of Apu; Best Actor: Robert Mitchum (The Sundowners, Home from the Hill) Best Actress: Greer Garson (Sunrise at Campobello) Best Supporting Actor: George Peppard (Home from the Hill) Best Supporting Actress: Shirley Jones (Elmer Gantry) I'm All Right, Jack. Awards Not that his fellow employees need much encouragement to down tools,indeed they seem to spend their days assiduously trying to avoid work.Nor are his employers much better,eternally trying to get the workers to do more for less money.Personnel Manager Mr Terry-Thomas is at his wits' end "You're an absolute Shower",he shouts despairingly to jeers from the workforce. Sellers shows us his true genius as the Union leader Fred Kite, a role that he arguably never bettered. Review/Film; How an All-American Boy Went to War and Lost His Faith ... Ron Kovic believed in all of the right things, including God, country and the domino theory. I hadn't seen any of his work, and this was a great introduction. Firstly, he goes to the makers of 'Detto' soap powder, but his honesty ensures he is swiftly shown the door. Be the first one to write a review. Peter Sellers, who seems to always play more than one role in every movie he's in, is Sir John Kennaway, key member of every facet of establishment there is, and the narration tells us that he's on his way out. "All them cornfields...and ballet in the evenings",he rhapsodises at a time when Stalin had only been dead four years.Shop Steward Kite is the sort of slightly potty Socialist whose antics gave birth to the idea of the "Loony Left" in British politics.With a Hitler moustache and an extreme haircut Mr Kite strides round the factory with a face like a bag of hammers followed by his equally surly minions,sowing conflict where there once was peace. I'm All Right Jack; Hiroshima Mon Amour; Winners. While Britain used to be the most productive country on the planet, during this era they were torn apart by strikes and work slowdowns. Never mind that tosh. Peter Sellers stars in a serious role, played half-straight and half-caricatured, as a labour union shop steward and 'Chairman of the Works Committee' at a factory of an arms firm called Missiles Limited. The bunkum of the bosses is hardly less true and delightful to behold. Despite obviously being a comedy, the film is an amazingly insightful attack on the floundering state of British labor following the Second World War. FAQ | Mr Sellers has been rightly lauded for his portrayal of the ludicrous self-important but pathetic shop steward.He could easily have turned him into a monster with no redeeming features ,a comedy villain,but he has succeeded in the much more difficult task of making Kite a man we can ridicule but at the same time feel some sympathy for,perhaps even a little affection.In one memorable scene he is matched blow for blow by Mr Terry- Thomas as circumstances force them to share a room.Accompanied by a superb trombone solo on the soundtrack(Don Lusher? This time they got it exactly all right – it is a far better film … Boulting actually lost a suit against a labor union. I'm All Right Jack is directed and produced by John and Roy Boulting from a script by Frank Harvey, John Boulting and Alan Hackney. They were brilliantly talented but they were corrupt when it came to money and were quite brazen about it. Garadene swine. Cornfields and ballet, in other words. Fred Kite is a character very familiar even in modern British politics (Bob Crowe still thinks and talks very much like him), with his hilariously Utopian views on the impoverished horror state of the USSR "fields of corn and ballet in the evening". Video. Boulting Brothers, British Lion Films, Columbia Pictures. Yet the film doesn't just attack labor unions with their unreasonable demands and poor work ethic. Ian Carmichael excels as an upper middle class twit of unparalleled naivety and idiocy who gets a job as an ordinary worker and discovers that he loves it, leading to all sorts of class complications. This film is obviously a loud declaration that the British Empire is in fact dead. The film's high point is a star-making performance from Peter Sellers, who shows the versatility that he would sharpen in such classic films as Dr. Strangelove and Being There. An illustration of an audio speaker. A solid addition to the growing collection of books about bullying.--School Library Journal I Am Jack is a sensitive and realistic portrayal of bullying written from the perspective of its lovable protagonist, an eleven-year-old boy who is being bullied at school. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the bottom and work his way up, and also that the management as well as the trade union use him as a … Along with Alexander Mackendrick's "The Man in the White Suit," this is THE great satire of management-labor relations: less allegorical and more cheerfully crass. Film, Comedy. Returning from the first film are Ian Carmichael, Dennis Price, Richard Attenborough, Terry-Thomas, Victor Madden & Miles Malleson. How insane is a movie that begins and ends in a nudist colony? Script, direction, players: impossible to improve upon. I waited until I watched Private's Progress to get a feel for these characters from where they originated before writing about I'm All Right Jack. The characters from "Private's Progress" return from the war to continue with their peace-time work. I have been in a Union business that failed before, and I was quite shocked at how much I could compare my own experiences with what was on display here with the Unions and Management trying to maneuver themselves ahead of on another. A handful of jump scenes might have very young moviegoers surging backward in their chairs. An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Perhaps the most interesting thing about it is that today we are often now told that we are selfish and only looking after our own interests, and we look back with nostalgia to the 1950s when there was a greater sense of community...or maybe there wasn't. Ah, progress. But many of us have seen something similar happening in our places of work, especially during the 1970s. 'Uncle Bertie' Tracepurcel ( Dennis Price ) gets him a job driving a fork-lift truck at the engineering firm of Missiles Ltd. Anyone who thinks Old British films are 'quaint' should watch this, one of the sharpest satires ever made. Having left … Recently elected into the British Cinema's Top 100 Films, I'm All Right Jack is a delight. ), the naive young man we saw first in the Boulting Brothers' army comedy 'Private's Progress'. Eager to get involved, the well-to-do Stanley Windrush tries to get a management job but fails. The vivid terms trip off the tongue. Synopsis Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. 1 Review This informed, highly readable account of 65 great British cinema character actors recalls such highlights of film history as Alec Guiness's obdurate commanding officer in The Bridge on the River Kwai, the chilling screen presence of Peter Cushing, and the hilarious bungling of Ian Carmichael in I'm All Right Jack. 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