When he throws Cox's bribe money into the air, the studio audience riots. On a televised discussion programme ("Argument") hosted by Malcolm Muggeridge, Windrush reveals to the nation the underhanded motivations of all concerned. They reach an agreement but Windrush has made both sides look bad and has to go.Ĭox tries to bribe Windrush with a bagful of money to resign but Windrush turns him down. More strikes spring up, bringing the country to a standstill.įaced with these new developments, Tracepurcel has no choice but to send Hitchcock to negotiate with Kite. This provokes the adoring Cynthia and her mother to go on strike. When Windrush decides to cross the picket line and go back to work (and reveals his connection with the company's owner), Kite asks him to leave his house. The press reports that Kite is punishing Windrush for working hard. Cox arrives at his factory, Union Jack Foundries, to find that his workers are walking out in a sympathy strike. Stanley's rich aunt visits the Kite household where she is met by Mrs Kite with some sympathy. The union meet and decide to punish Windrush by " sending him to Coventry" and he is informed of this in writing. The excuse to the foreign government is that a faster contract costs more. He, Tracepurcel and a Mr Mohammed, the country's representative, would each pocket a third of the £100,000 difference (£2.5 million today). This is what Cox and Tracepurcel want: Cox owns a company that can take over a large new contract with a Middle Eastern country at an inflated cost. When Kite is informed of the results, he calls a strike to protect the rates his union workers are being paid. The workers refuse to cooperate but Waters tricks Windrush into showing him how much more quickly he can do his job with his forklift truck than other more experienced employees. Meanwhile, personnel manager Major Hitchcock is assigned a time and motion study expert, Waters, to measure how efficient the employees are. When Kite's daughter Cynthia drops by, Stanley readily accepts. However, after a period of work-to-rule, he takes Stanley under his wing and even offers to take him in as a lodger. At first suspicious of Windrush as an over-eager newcomer, communist shop steward Fred Kite asks that Stanley be sacked for not having a union card. His uncle, Bertram Tracepurcel and his old army comrade, Sidney DeVere Cox, persuade Windrush to take an unskilled blue-collar job at Tracepurcel's missile factory, Missiles Ltd. The recruitment agent tells Windrush by letter that after getting 11 interviews in 10 days and making a singularly unimpressive impression that industry isn't for him. An excess of samples causes him to be sick into a large mixing bowl of the product. Although it tastes good the process for making the cakes is very disturbing. He then interviews at "Num-Yum," a factory making processed cakes. Stanley Windrush chats with his father at the Sunnyglades Nudist Camp, and is persuaded to seek a job as a business executive: he interviews at the "Detto" company making washing detergent and, making a very unfavourable impression, fails to get the job. The film is one of the satires made by the Boulting Brothers between 19. The trade unions, workers and bosses are all seen to be incompetent or corrupt. The title is a well-known English expression indicating smug and complacent selfishness. The film is a satire on British industrial life in the 1950s. The rest of the cast included many well-known British comedy actors of the time. Peter Sellers played one of his best remembered roles as the trades union shop steward Fred Kite, and won a BAFTA Best Actor Award. The film is a sequel to the Boultings' 1956 film Private's Progress and Ian Carmichael, Dennis Price, Richard Attenborough, Terry-Thomas and Miles Malleson reprise their characters. I'm All Right Jack is a 1959 British comedy film directed and produced by John and Roy Boulting from a script by Frank Harvey, John Boulting and Alan Hackney based on the 1958 novel Private Life by Alan Hackney.
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