| 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]
- ^ "I'm All Right Jack". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
- ^ "1960 Film British Actor". bafta.org.
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- ^ Collins English Dictionary, I'm all right, Jack
- ^ "BFI Screenonline: I'm All Right Jack (1959)". screenonline.org.uk.