Quote: Billy Bunter @ 20th June 2019, 8:20 AM
A favourite of the Boultings, they wanted to make their own satire of industry and its social implications. As great as the Ealing Comedy is they surpassed all expectations with IARJ, a much harder hitting critique on industrial relations with a more contemporary adult tone to it. It has similar story lines for the similar lead character, the naïve hero who turns out to be the villain.
Classic Movies: The Story Of I'm All Right, Jack on Sky Arts - excellent with a lot of background info
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 4th September 2024, 11:22 PMClassic Movies: The Story Of I'm All Right, Jack on Sky Arts - excellent with a lot of background info
Oh I missed that totally, I'll have to see if it's on youtube. I'm wondering now if it was on last night because I flicked through the channels just after nine and found the film had just started, so that was my next two hours sorted. But I'm guessing now I missed the documentary on it again because they do alot of that now on Sky Arts, a celebration doc followed by the film. 😣 Bah!
Anyway, I see something new in this great picture every time, it has so much busy detail in it, a true masterpiece of comedy film making. Liz Fraser is very good in this and stunningly sexy as an infatuated 'spindle polisher', I laugh at that job title every time. Ian Carmichael virtually typecast(ed) himself in the role as a naive upperclass twit, but he was magnificent at it, a very undercelebrated actor imo. 👏🏻🎬 all round.
Simply love it when Kite starts to get all romantic about visiting the USSR, trying to sell it to Stanley .................
"All them cornfields & ballet in the evening" - superb bit of comic writing, so well delivered by Sellers, and of course, who can forget Terry-Thomas' "What an absolute Shower", and Sam Kydd's stuttering "You silly c-c-c-clot" 😆
Brilliant, brilliant superb film
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 4th September 2024, 11:22 PMClassic Movies: The Story Of I'm All Right, Jack on Sky Arts - excellent with a lot of background info
It's on again on Sky Arts this Sunday afternoon (2 March) followed by the film itself. (They did the same with "The Ladykillers" last week.)
Ah great, ta for info. Telly will be on for the first prog at least, possibly the film again also, although I don't usually like watching the same film twice so close together, but this is such a busy narrative with little twists everywhere, it probably won't feel overwatched. Oh, and the bottoms are definitely untouched by the censors in this version, if Herc and others wish to see them in their glory this time.
Although 🤔having said that it could just have been because of the time it was on. So they may get the censor's hand all over them again on a Sunday afternoon. ☹️
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ 28th February 2025, 10:44 AMAh great, ta for info. Telly will be on for the first prog at least, possibly the film again also, although I don't usually like watching the same film twice so close together, but this is such a busy narrative with little twists everywhere, it probably won't feel overwatched. Oh, and the bottoms are definitely untouched by the censors in this version, if Herc and others wish to see them in their glory this time.
Although 🤔having said that it could just have been because of the time it was on. So they may get the censor's hand all over them again on a Sunday afternoon. ☹️
Ummm, maybe but I think Noel Cronin of TPTV fame/owner is a bit of an old woman when it comes to glimpses of flesh and the like, though I did see a film on that channel last year that would have delighted certain sections of society, that their "censors" missed.
EDIT - PS I do of course, have a DVD of the film
