I'm All Right Jack | |
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Directed by | John Boulting |
Screenplay by | Frank Harvey John Boulting Alan Hackney |
Based on | Private Life by Alan Hackney |
Produced by | Roy Boulting |
Starring | Ian Carmichael Peter Sellers Richard Attenborough Dame Margaret Rutherford Terry-Thomas |
Cinematography | Mutz Greenbaum |
Edited by | Anthony Harvey |
Music by | Ken Hare Ron Goodwin |
Production company | Charter Film Productions |
Distributed by | British Lion Films (UK) |
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Running time | 101 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
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.[1]
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 the trades union shop steward Fred Kite, and won a BAFTA Best Actor Award.[2] The rest of the cast included many well-known British comedy actors of the time.[3]
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.[4] 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.[5]
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