I'm All Right Jack (1959)

Highly Recommended

UK

Feature Film

Director: John Boulting

Writers: John Boulting, Alan Hackney, Frank Harvey

Cinematographer: Max Greene

Composer: Ken Hare

Cast: Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Margaret Rutherford, Irene Handl, Liz Fraser, Miles Malleson, Marne Maitland

A naïve Oxford graduate from a penniless branch of an upper class family decides to pursue a career in industry, but he struggles to find the executive position that he strives for, so when his uncle suggests that he take an unskilled position at a munitions factory, upon the board of which he is a member, he blunders his way into it, unknowingly playing a key role in his uncle’s nefarious moneymaking scheme, in the Boulting brothers’ madcap satirical farce, which takes well-aimed pot-shots at the underhanded machinations of both the bosses and the workers, damningly and hilariously portraying all walks of society as essentially corrupt and self-serving. Iain.Stott