I'm All Right Jack (1959)

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Penniless gentleman Stanley Windrush (Ian Carmichael) enters the world of industry, only to be caught between crooked 1%-ers (Richard Attenborough et al) and lazy, Communist union workers under Fred Kite (Peter Sellers).

It's very funny and it seems clear that the satire is meant to be equal opportunity -- the Modern Times critique of industrial society is also balanced out by showing as its opposite an absurd nudist colony. Unfortunately, there is as ever a qualitative difference been punching up at capital (whose crimes have been consistent and frequent over the half-century since the film) and punching down at unionised workers. Politics aside, it's a great little film -- good script, good performances, and some lovely stylistic flourishes like the billboard interstitials ("Num Yum!").

- Sam - 2022-04-10 23:27:04