I'm All Right Jack
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.
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Ian Carmichael (Stanley Windrush)
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Peter Sellers (Fred Kite)
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Terry-Thomas (Major Hitchcock)
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Richard Attenborough (Sydney de Vere Cox)
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Dennis Price (Bertram Tracepurcel)
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Margaret Rutherford (Aunt Dolly)
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Irene Handl (Mrs Kite)
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Liz Fraser (Cynthia Kite)
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Miles Malleson (Windrush Snr)
*Marne Maitland (Mr Mohammed)
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John Le Mesurier (Waters)
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Raymond Huntley (Magistrate)
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Victor Maddern (Knowles)
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Kenneth Griffith (Dai)
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Cardew Robinson - a shop steward
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Terry Scott - Crawley
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Alun Owen - film producer
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David Lodge - card player
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Sam Kydd - shop steward
In addition,
Malcolm Muggeridge appears as himself, as does
television announcer
Muriel Young.
*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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