I'm All Right Jack

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.

This article is about the film. For the British expression, see I'm alright, Jack.

I'm All Right Jack
Original British film poster
Directed byJohn Boulting
Screenplay byFrank Harvey
John Boulting
Alan Hackney
Based onPrivate Life
by Alan Hackney
Produced byRoy Boulting
StarringIan Carmichael
Peter Sellers
Richard Attenborough
Dame Margaret Rutherford
Terry-Thomas
CinematographyMutz Greenbaum
Edited byAnthony Harvey
Music byKen Hare
Ron Goodwin
Production
company
Charter Film Productions
Distributed byBritish Lion Films (UK)
Release date
  • 13 August 1959 (1959-08-13) (UK)
Running time
101 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

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. The rest of the cast included many well-known British comedy actors of the time.

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. 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.

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