Summary
"Peter Sellers won his only British Academy Award for his career-making performance as Socialist shop steward Fred Kite in this brilliant class-struggle comedy. Ian Carmichael ... co-stars as naive Oxford graduate Stanley Windrush, who is hired as a common worker at his wealthy uncle's missile factory and quickly becomes a pawn in the battle between management and Mr. Kite's labor union. But can both sides stop a complete nitwit from single-handedly destroying the economy while becoming the symbol of integrity for an entire nation?"--Container.Additional Information
| Subjects |
Hackney, Alan
-- Film adaptations.
Social classes -- England -- Drama. Labor unions -- England -- Drama. Strikes and lockouts -- England -- Drama. England -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Drama. Comedy films. Film adaptations. Fiction films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. |
| Publisher | Troy, MI :Anchor Bay Entertainment [distributor],2003 |
| Edition | Widescreen ed. |
| Other Titles | Private life. |
| Contributors |
Boulting, Roy,
1913-2001, producer. Boulting, John, director, screenwriter. Harvey, Frank, 1912-1981, screenwriter. Hackney, Alan, screenwriter. Carmichael, Ian, 1920-2010, actor. Terry-Thomas, 1911-1990, actor. Sellers, Peter, 1925-1980, actor. Attenborough, Richard, actor. Rutherford, Margaret, 1892-1972, actor. Price, Dennis, 1915-1973, actor. Hare, Ken, composer. Hackney, Alan. Private life. British Lion Films. Charter Film Productions. Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc. |
| Participants/Performers |
Peter Sellers, Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Richard Attenborough, Margaret Rutherford, Dennis Price. |
| Other Contributors |
Photographer, Max Greene ; editor, Anthony Harvey ; music, Ken Hare. |
| Audience |
Not rated. |
| Language |
English Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. |
| Notes |
Originally released in 1959 by Charter Film Productions. From the novel Private life by Alan Hackney. Special features include Peter Sellers biography and selected filmography, theatrical trailer. |
| System Details |
DVD, NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.66:1) enhanced for 16x9 TVs; Dolby digital; mono. |
| Description |
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Other | Classic View |