I'm All Right Jack (Boulting, 1959): Cinema Museum, 7.30pm
This film is part of the 'Celebrating Peter. Sellers' season at the Cinema Museum and will be followed by a Q&A discussion with leading film and media experts Dr. Graham McCann, Robert Ross and David Stubbs.
Time Out review:
The best of the Boulting Brothers' warm, vulgar, affectionate satires. The
travails of silly-ass hero Ian Carmichael are only mildly amusing, but the
film blazes into life with the arrival of Peter Sellers' Stalinist Don
Quixote, tilting with alarming predictability at the windmills
constructed by his class enemies. The Red Robbos of this world may be an
unfairly easy target, but Sellers' caricature is affectionate, not
malicious. Accusations of union-bashing are misplaced. The workers may
all be dumb clods who sleep with their vests on, but there's a grudging
appreciation of their truculent cynicism, and Richard Attenborough's horrid
little entrepreneur discovers that in making them the dupes of his
capitalist crookery he brings about his own downfall.
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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