Review of I'm All Right Jack

An intellectual from Oxford--so studious he has become a naive rube in the real world, and unable to find his niche in the working place--takes a manual labor position at his nefarious uncle's factory, where he stirs up a tempest with the labor relations team. Screenwriter Alan Hackney, co-adapting his book "Private Life" with Frank Harvey and director John Boulting, hit upon a certain observant ridiculousness in the British class system with his then-trenchant satire. While Hackney's targets are scattered (and obvious or dated by now), the supporting performances from Peter Sellers (well-disguised as the middle-aged labor leader), Terry-Thomas, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Liz Fraser, and Margaret Rutherford are certainly worth a look. ** from ****