I'm All Right Jack

I'm All Right Jack is a pre-cert UK VHS released by EMI on 1980.
==Description==
Honoured by the British Film Academy with the awards of Best British Screenplay and Best Performance by a British Actor (Peter Sellers) of 1959, I'm All Right Jack has more than stood the test of time as a topical and hilariously witty comment on the stupidities and hypocrisies of the class war. When it opened, it infuriated many leading figures on both sides of the union fence. Twenty years later the film was still felt to be so hard-hitting that the BBC decided against showing it on television just before the Parliamentary Election of 1979. I'm All Right Jack remains as up-to-date as every headline which blames 'autocratic' managements or 'money grabbing' unions for everything from inflation to weather. Like all the best British humour, this comedy's roots go deep into the rich soil of the realities and eccentricities of our lives. All the characters are recognisable types. Laughing at their behaviour we laugh no only at the people we meet every day but also at ourselves; though most of us cannot help but identify with the hapless cause of all the trouble, the upperclass twit Stanley Windrush (Ian Carmichael), who eventually proves to have more down-to-earth commonsense than all the bowler-hatted and cloth-capped clever Dicks who use him as a pawn in their money-making games. This is the film that launched Peter Sellers on the road to international stardom. Before he created the tragi-comic shop steward Fred Kite, with his mangled sentences, pinched mouth, arrogant strut and pathetic loneliness, Sellers was known as a Goon and laughter-making clown. Kite established him as a top-line character actor worthy of stardom, opposite Sophia Loren in The Millionairess and led to his transformation into a sexy leading man. But Kite lives on as one of Seller's finest performances ever; and as an awful warning to every public speaker. MARJORIE BILBOW
==Cast==
*Ian Carmichael as Stanley Windrush
*Peter Sellers as Fred Kite
*Terry-Thomas as Major Hitchcock
*Richard Attenborough as Sydney DeVere Cox
*Dennis Price as Bertram Tracepurcel
*Dame Margaret Rutherford as Aunt Dolly
*Irene Handl as Mrs Kite
*Liz Fraser as Cynthia Kite
*Miles Malleson as Windrush Snr
*Marne Maitland as Mr Mohammed
*John Le Mesurier as Waters
*Raymond Huntley as Magistrate
*Victor Maddern as Knowles
*Kenneth Griffith as Dai
*Fred Griffiths as Charlie
*John Comer as Shop Steward
*Sam Kydd as Shop Steward
*Cardew Robinson as Shop Steward
*Ronnie Stevens as Hooper
*Martin Boddey as Num Yum's Executive
*Brian Oulton as Appointments Board Examiner
*John Glyn-Jones as Detto Executive
*Terry Scott as Crawley
*Alun Owen as Film Producer
*Eynon Evans as Truscott
*David Lodge as Card Player
*Keith Smith as Card Player
*Clifford Keedy as Card Player
*Wally Patch as Worker
*Esma Cannon as Spencer
*E. V. H. Emmett as Narrator
*Stringer Davis as Journalist (uncredited)
*Peter Sellers as Sir John (uncredited)
Category:VHS
Category:UK VHS Releases
Category:1980 VHS Releases
Category:Comedy Videos by EMI