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Watch: I’m All Right Jack 1959 123movies, Full Movie Online – Naive Stanley Windrush (Ian Carmichael) 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..
Plot: 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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	7.1/10 Votes: 4,086
	88% | RottenTomatoes
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	N/A Votes: 50 Popularity: 5.179 | TMDB

Reviews:

Bravest New World You Ever Did See
Ah, progress. Never mind that tosh. “I’m All Right Jack” is a hilarious send up of the 20th century very much on point today, an anything-goes capitalist-meets-socialist system where workers and owners are equally victimized.

Peter Sellers won the British Academy Award for Best British Actor for his performance as union leader Fred Kite, beating out a field that year which included Laurence Olivier, Laurence Harvey, Richard Burton, and Peter Finch. Ian Carmichael is the actual lead actor in “I’m All Right Jack”, and Kite doesn’t even show up until after the first 20 minutes, but Sellers makes Kite a compelling and comedic character worth remembering as a symbol of organized labor run amuk.

A kind of sequel to “Private’s Progress”, also featuring Carmichael in the role of Stanley Windrush, “I’m All Right Jack” is a swinging social satire. Two factory owners (played by Dennis Price and Richard Attenborough) conspire to create a labor strike at a munitions factory to get a higher price. To do that, they need someone to create a bit of friction. Enter Windrush, a total innocent upper-class twit who only cares about earning his pay, no matter how much that offends Kite and other labor leaders.

“We’re living in the welfare state,” says the middle manager Hitchcock (Terry-Thomas). “I call it the farewell state.”

“I’m All Right Jack” starts out very cheeky indeed, with a surprising eyeful of female nudity circa 1959 and cracks at religion and the military. Later, a stuttering character sees an array of photographers and asks: “Why don’t you tell them to f-f-f-photograph something worthwhile.”

The only major problem with “I’m All Right Jack” is the slowness of the film right up until Windrush arrives at Missiles Ltd., after which the comedy becomes a kind of classless class comedy, where shrapnel flies thick and fast and no one is immune. Sellers’ performance is brilliant, giving you a character who’s likable even as he plays the antagonist. You can scorn his love of Stalinist Russia, which he boils down to cornfields and ballet, but you empathize with his fairness (not wanting to fire Windrush is his undoubted downfall) and his sensitivity for the feelings of Mrs. Kite (Irene Handl) and their daughter (Liz Fraser). He’s just a bit extreme.

“We cannot and do not accept the principle that incompetence justifies dismissal,” Kite argues. “That is victimization.”

The real bad guys are the bosses guying the system, though John Boulting, who directed and co-wrote this with Alan Hackney and Frank Harvey, wants you to see the union abuses that make such a scam not only possible but desirable to the upper classes.

Sellers also appears at the film’s outset as “Sir John”, a men’s-club inhabitant who witnesses the end of World War II as an unpleasant upending of the old social order, before disappearing in the postwar wake. “A solid block in what seemed the edifice of an ordered and stable society,” is his postscript.

Contrast him with the very hip, 60s-sounding Al Saxon theme song that sticks its post-war, pre-Beatles attitude in your face as smartly as flipping the bird to Churchill (something else we get to see in the first few minutes), and you find yourself watching what had to be for 1959 a very mod film. It still stands up today as one of the best labor-management comedies, even if the British class system it addresses is no more.

Too true to be funny
This is frequently biting, often just funny, but overall it is more sad commentary.

I am reminded of an Associated Press photo from about 1987. The Saturn plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee, had just voted — again — to turn down the unionizing effort of the United Auto Workers. Employees were quoted as saying this was a victory for the workers.

Writing in the spring of 2009, just a few days after Chrysler has announced its bankruptcy, and after meeting in my current geographical location, time after time, people who had fled Detroit carrying horror stories of union corruption and, face it, complicity by industry and management, I wonder if we will ever have civilization and a sound economy again.

“I’m All Right Jack” manages to paint a sadly accurate picture of a culture perfectly spelled out by the Stanley character when he throws the Marxian motto of “From each …” into the face of the Kite character, the union steward — beautifully played, by the way, by the brilliant Peter Sellers.

What isn’t spelled out, but ought to be obvious to any thinking viewer, is that the evils of the situation portrayed in “I’m All Right Jack” don’t come from corrupt management or corrupt unions alone but from an acceptance of and institutionalization of the principle of coercion.

Let me stress that one can watch “I’m All Right Jack” with your thinking process turned off and you can just enjoy the superlative acting and the funny situations, but I urge you to think, to understand there really is an important point being made, even if not one the makers themselves necessarily intended.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 45 min (105 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Comedy
Director John Boulting
Writer Alan Hackney, Frank Harvey, John Boulting
Actors Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers
Country United Kingdom
Awards Won 2 BAFTA 3 wins & 1 nomination total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Aspect Ratio 1.66 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format 35 mm