I'M ALL RIGHT JACK (1959)
restored comedy with soundtrack in its 65th Anniversary Year, 105 minutes.
Tickets: $25/$20
General seating - not reserved or numbered
(T 0419 267 318)
Fred Kite (Peter Sellers): “We do not and cannot accept the principle that incompetence justifies dismissal. That is victimisation.”
Opening quote: “Oh! Brave New World that hath such people in’t” - William Shakespeare.
“I'm All Right, Jack won Peter Sellers a Bafta for Best Actor as a naïve ex-soldier looking to get ahead in business, who unwittingly ends up as a pawn in the machinations between management and the trade unions. From John and Roy Boulting, the film remains one of the sharpest satires on life in the British workplace.”
“The 1959 I'm All Right Jack set Peter Sellers on the road to international stardom after his decade on radio in The Goons. As later in Dr Strangelove, Sellers here plays multiple roles--both Sir John Kennaway and, unforgettably, the bolshie trades-union leader Fred Kite. The result is laugh-out-loud comedy with a satirical edge, lampooning the then burning issue of industrial relations. Bertram Tracepurcel (Dennis Price) plans to make a fortune from a missile contract, a scheme that involves manipulating his innocent nephew Stanley Windrush (Ian Carmichael) into acting as the catalyst in an escalating labour dispute, from which the socialist Mr Kite is only too keen to make capital.”
Tickets: $25/$20
General seating - not reserved or numbered
(T 0419 267 318)
Fred Kite (Peter Sellers): “We do not and cannot accept the principle that incompetence justifies dismissal. That is victimisation.”
Opening quote: “Oh! Brave New World that hath such people in’t” - William Shakespeare.
“I'm All Right, Jack won Peter Sellers a Bafta for Best Actor as a naïve ex-soldier looking to get ahead in business, who unwittingly ends up as a pawn in the machinations between management and the trade unions. From John and Roy Boulting, the film remains one of the sharpest satires on life in the British workplace.”
“The 1959 I'm All Right Jack set Peter Sellers on the road to international stardom after his decade on radio in The Goons. As later in Dr Strangelove, Sellers here plays multiple roles--both Sir John Kennaway and, unforgettably, the bolshie trades-union leader Fred Kite. The result is laugh-out-loud comedy with a satirical edge, lampooning the then burning issue of industrial relations. Bertram Tracepurcel (Dennis Price) plans to make a fortune from a missile contract, a scheme that involves manipulating his innocent nephew Stanley Windrush (Ian Carmichael) into acting as the catalyst in an escalating labour dispute, from which the socialist Mr Kite is only too keen to make capital.”
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STATE LIBRARY NSW - 11 Aug 2024 - I’m All Right Jack (1959)
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