I'M ALRIGHT JACK / HEAVENS ABOVE (1959)

JOHN BOULTING

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Cast

PETER SELLERS RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH TERRY THOMAS MARGARET RUTHERFORD IRENE HANDL JOHN LE MESURIER ISABEL JEANS ERIC SYKES DENNIS PRICE

Plot

A roll-call of British comedians star in two gentle satires:"I'm Alright Jack" is a delicious comic drama about the injustices and stupidities of Britain's class system with Ian Carmichael as a bumbling toff trying to make his way amidst the politics of the industrial workplace, where the Stalinist union representative, Fred Kite, played with sublime skill by Sellers, rants and raves at his upper class oppressors. Winner of the BAFTA for best male lead.