I'm All Right Jack ( I'm Alright Jack )

I'm All Right Jack (DVD) (*)

$23.99

Alternate Title: I'm Alright Jack
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
100 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1959 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
John Boulting

Written By:
Alan Hackney
Frank Harvey

Actors:
Ian Carmichael ..... Stanley Windrush
Terry-Thomas ..... Major Hitchcock
Peter Sellers ..... Fred Kite
Richard Attenborough ..... Sidney De Vere Cox
Dennis Price ..... Bertram Tracepurcel
Margaret Rutherford ..... Aunt Dolly
Irene Handl ..... Mrs. Kite
Liz Fraser ..... Cynthia Kite
Miles Malleson ..... Windrush Snr.
Marne Maitland ..... Mr. Mohammed
John Le Mesurier ..... Waters
Raymond Huntley ..... Magistrate
Victor Maddern ..... Knowles
Kenneth Griffith ..... Dai
Fred Griffiths ..... Charlie

Synopsis:

Set in the 1950s in Britain, this award-winning social comedy by director and co-writer John Boulting features Ian Carmichael as the inept Stanley Windrush, a hopeless twit with -- we are to believe -- an Oxford degree. Unlike others in his social circle, Stanley wants to work. When he tries out for jobs in industry with the full expectation of working his way into a management position, he sets off disasters and alienates his interviewers. So his uncle gives him a job in his munitions factory, knowing what an idiot he is, and relying on him to eventually cause a strike (the uncle needs this for his own reasons). Fred Kite (Peter Sellers in a performance that would launch him as an international star) takes Stanley under his wing yet that does not exactly turn out as expected either. Stanley screws up by accidentally being too efficient, and the entire British work force is affected. If one can accept a portrayal of factory workers as shiftless men unwilling to work, and managers as good 'ole boys whose jobs are gained only by networking, then this film will be all the more entertaining.

In postwar Britain tricky Bertram Tracepurcel plans to get an Arab arms contract for his missile company then arrange for a strike so that his partner Sidney Cox gets the work at a higher price. Central to the scheme is Tracepurcel's innocent nephew whom he persuades to take a job on the shop-floor knowing he is bound to cause union problems. With shop steward Fred Kite always ready to assert workers' rights trouble is indeed assured, though not quite in the way Tracepurcell and Cox intended.

Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. 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.

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