Fred Kite

The union comes a cropper

[@davevaller5336]

… "well I think we can all congratulate ourselves on a most productive morning’s work" - absolutely brilliant

[@platosays3721]

This movie has lost nothing in the decades - it's just so spot on and hilarious. My Mum and Dad knew Terry-Thomas and he was just as amusing in person.

[@Elitist20]

So sad what happened to him in later life.

[@dennis8196]

@@Elitist20 for those who don't know, he got Parkinson's, in the early 70's, his pension worth nothing and the actors union did nothing (except stir untrue stories such as he was an alcoholic), after investing in some film projects that all flopped, he was finding he couldn't afford the medical costs. Many many years later it took a local TV campaign to get some support to help his wife get a carer for him eventually moving into a nursing home where he passed away. Too little too late. In a nutshell, he was left to rot after his money dried up, no one wanted to help until a story on local news guilted other actors into doing something to help him, but even then it wasn't salfless, it was a PR exercise for them.

[@davidleebls1874]

Great actors are never acting

[@stobbinsboy]

@@dennis8196 That's disgusting. How could that happen to such a fine actor and grand gentleman? As an young boy across the pond he was to me the epitome of the British male specimen. One of my favorites.

[@user-vk2pd1qm3f]

@@davidleebls1874 only in comedy

[@Lee-70ish]

Absolute classic British comedy the best screen play about union/management extremes ever written

[@Torrington-er9uw]

You are so spot on.

[@head-shunt2385]

Agreed and should be mandatory viewing in workplaces!

[@theram4320]

So many great British actors here, real talents. Oh for a time machine...

[@kybone25]

Amen!

[@smitheree]

''The management is wilfully jeropardizing the safety of it's employees'' LOL

[@bmgm3]

I think old Fred Kite is now working for the Health and Safety Executive now, slowly destroying industry from the outside this time.

[@elguapo1507]

😂😂😂😂 When comedy and irony meet! Truly brilliant actors! I used to watch all the Terry Thomas films,cthey were all fantastic!

[@nomadicroadrat]

Classic Terry-Thomas. What a grand performer.

[@ProNorden]

"I'm Alright Jack" was a great movie, ..especially the 'Stanley Windrush Critique' of predatory corporatism and parasitic unionism toward the end.

[@dawnof-the-triffids601]

Agreed, it's only political agenda is to call out those who should be called out.

[@davidallen508]

This film and “The Naked Truth” both make me laugh out loud every time.The brilliant cast list in each of them is something we will never see the likes of again.Terry-Thomas and Peggy Mount give me infinite joy and Peter Sellers was a genius.Thank you.

[@stanthesteam]

What a superb clip. Terry Thomas an absolute genius.

[@paulmoran217]

Sam Kydd..few words spoken but remembered down thru the years.... he was ffffffffffflippin' great!

[@simonl1785]

Brilliantt A Proper Sunday afternoon movie

[@bsport131]

Brilliant film from an era of brilliant films with fantastic actors and characters

[@kyawkyawwin1]

A true British classic with so many greats, now all sadly long gone.

[@scudder91]

i love the bit when the stuttering bloke says - "they should go f- f- f- f- photograph something worth while for a change!"

[@kybone25]

hahaha yea even as a child I thought he was going to say why dont you tell them to fuck off haha

[@Dallas-Nyberg]

The great Sam Kydd... It has been said, that he had more roles in British movies than any other actor.

[@scudder91]

@@kybone25 there's another classic bit where he says "you silly c - c - c - c - c - c - c - c - clot!" Amazing they got away with it.

[@dersinghampault]

Great scene - one of the best things about this completely brilliant comedy is that EVERYONE gets the piss taken out of them - not just the unions, but the management as well. The whole society is shown as corrupt, and the only person who wants to show this corruption for what it is loses out, whilst all the others pretty much get what they want! And Fred Kite is a totally unforgettable character.

[@osianevans-sharma2899]

Peter Sellers was such a brilliant actor...

[@head-shunt2385]

Agreed. I once met Leslie Phillips (lovely man) and we chatted when appeared with Peter Sellers in The Smallest Show on Earth. He said PS was continually doing different voices and characters - nothing to do with the film.

[@PosthumousAddress]

I'm a trade union branch secretary and I love this movie.

[@moderncombat3gamer]

you smell

[@voxac30withstrat]

So you'll know exactly how accurate it is then?

[@PosthumousAddress]

voxac30withstrat It's not an accurate representation of modern industrial relations whatsoever. It's a movie. It's known as "humour"

[@voxac30withstrat]

LordHealey Having been involved in unions myself I'd say it's pretty damn close otherwise why parody it so well. Union reps are ONLY, I repeat ONLY, in it for what they personally can get out of it.

[@PosthumousAddress]

voxac30withstrat Parody necessarily involves a level of caricature. It might have been slightly more accurate when it was actually made. Are you aware of the significant differences in trade unions between now and when this movie was made?

[@Johnny-py6hh]

A fantastic movie, and it is spot on with the way unions work!.

[@danabrahams7892]

All it takes it solid talent and a good script and a love of the work and you get this sort of thing... absolute genius

[@duncansmith8992]

Absolutely brilliant. Nothing has changed in 60 years in the Trades Union thinking.

[@TheKitchenerLeslie]

What's fascinating is how Sellers seemed to age backwards throughout his career.

[@copewood1939]

"What a shower!"

[@timcolledge3732]

One of my favourite films, ever !!!

[@markblack2156]

These films are immortal... Acting talent is so wonderful....fantastic

[@tonyhgv]

one of my favs,along with wrong arm of the law .. two way stretch and billy liar..what great actors and great story lines we had then

[@timcolledge3732]

One of my favourite films- ever

[@Devilsgreedybelly]

What Precisely is the Trouble? 🤣🤭😂😆👏 I'm stealing this line for any future quibbles

[@muppetrowlf1473]

How did Sellers do it? The perfect caricature of the working man. He was incredible.

[@Danny-qq5nr]

Liverpool docks comes to mind

[@captainswing4487]

Whoever designed the suit that Sellars is wearing was spot on with the double breasted Eagles Nest look of a dictator.

[@johnlewis9158]

privates progress and its sequel I'm alright jack have to go down as two of the best British comedies ever made. Richard Attenborough Terry Thomas and Peter Sellers. It does not get any better than that

[@karma3101]

That's exactly how the unions used act and talk.

[@davidcontini7217]

This is absolutely extraordinary.

[@johnc485]

What a treasure ! Thanks ..and that's unanimous Brother

[@Ruda-n4h]

Magnificent. Peter Sellers along with Tony Hancock was Britain's best comic actor.

[@timwingham8952]

.....and the union shoots itself in the foot. The writing for this film was absolute genius. Everything backfires on both union and management, all their downfalls being of their own making. I loved Sellers in so much of what he did, but this was (in my opinion only) his greatest acting role.

[@SpeedTriple59]

look where the unions got us today..

[@nomadicroadrat]

Yes, a 40 hour week, mimimum wages, unemployment insurance, child labor lawas. All to the good.

[@marvinthemaniac7698]

I was introduced to Terry-Thomas through Disney's Robin Hood.

[@HHM706]

Incompetence dosent justify dismissal, but like being a civil servant

[@jasonking6892]

TT was a genius the best of 🇬🇧

[@SpeedTriple59]

Utter shower!! Classic British comedy.

[@HughBriss69]

"spindle polisher"

[@GalootWrangler]

An unforgettable naughty line. The thought of Liz Fraser is a happy one.

[@dawnof-the-triffids601]

Wonderful satire rightly lampooning Capitalism and Socialism in equal measure.

[@timcolledge3732]

Bang on !!

[@geoffm9944]

What a fantastic cast. Terry Thomas and Peter Sellers were brilliant in this classic British comedy film. ‘What a shower.’ An unforgettable phrase from the one and only Terry Thomas.

[@edwinkirkland8856]

F'IN ..BRILLIANT

[@jamesvokral4934]

Always one of my favorite British films that really does not age. Labor vs Capitalists and corruption make this a classic.

[@52memor]

Incompetence is not a reason to sack someone that is victimisation. This was the dogma throughout the 60's and 70's

[@scarlebloke]

You can hear this guy speaking on the news fairly regularly even now, in the form of the RMT leader, Bob Crow.

[@vantheman12welshman66]

Brilliant

[@venividiviking]

Outstanding comedy 👌👌👌 I'm all right jack. Two way stretch. Make mine mink. Ladykillers. The naked truth. The wrong arm of the law. Just to mention some of my favorite classic british comedies 😁 Watch them, if you can

[@pearlnicol2443]

"Incompetence does not justify dismissal." British history since 1945.

[@Ididntchoosethisname]

British Political History that is.

[@pearlnicol2443]

@@Ididntchoosethisname yes, you're right. But those political failures have cascaded through i.e. the whole of our education system, which has cascaded further into the society itself.

[@vegetubleman]

I agree, jpck, it's a great Sellers performance. Check out his Brummie vicar in 'Heaven's Above' too. And Billy Bragg is a national treasure!

[@cherrylee1103]

the more things change, the more they stay the same.😂

[@biggerthanacadillac]

This wonderful film's sheer GENIUS I have always found quite overwhelming....and 'sad' for we'll never again see the like. Roy & John Boulting had a truly amazing 'eye' but now the 'kaleidoscope' of life has now taken on a pretty unsavoury focus....due in no small measure to Ken Tynan's 'eff' word in April 1965. PLUS atop that a relentless cynicism which drags MOST cultural attempts into a gutter of smut and largely 'wall to wall' depravity. Doomed Mr. Manwaring.....DOOMED I say! LoL!

[@davidleebls1874]

Love Terry Thomas and his comments and it's a mad mad world that what do you people have A Fetish 4 ice cubes. Cali?

[@pauldeering6531]

Peter Sellers and Terry Thomas😃

[@michaelscales5996]

Windrush ? Whenever I hear that name it only brings bad memories !

[@tonyhgv]

AHH unions what great times we had.then who was worse the managment or the union..lol

[@alfred38uk]

Jeropidised ,classic.withdraw and consult ha ha,we do not and cannot accept the principal that incompetance justifies dismissal, nothings changed then ,you only have to look at Gordon Browns so called Government.

[@joei1243]

That spokesperson for the union has a striking resemblance to Peter Sellers.

[@seande1855]

Note that. the leader of the Union is the same who played Mr.Nash on Are You Being Served , who was -The Head of the Union at Grace Bros.

[@Astroman1990]

Is this the same actor for “Mad,Mad,Mad,Mad World” where he talks about not understanding America’s infatuation with Boobies?

[@andyquelch3352]

Jerropodising🤣🤣

[@silondon9010]

Royal Mail workers needed Fred Kite 😢 , completely sold out by the CWU

[@QED_]

What a send up . . .

[@ladyrcursed666]

THANK YOU

[@srothbardt]

For the benefit of Mr Kite.

[@ronnie3280]

f f fork lift truck love it.

[@tonyhgv]

that is merley technical, pml

[@R-bobo]

The guy who stutters was in a series called Orlando,

[@dikshun9547]

I loved this film, but why advertise this as a full movie ? that is misleading, however any clip with Peter Sellers brings back happy memories, a brilliant actor and well lovedcomidian. RIP PS.

[@ronnie3280]

fffork lift truck. Hilarious

[@bgrigg07]

Well, I guess I'll just have to fall down this Terry Thomas rabbit hole!

[@main_stream_media_is_a_joke]

Don't miss School for Scoundrels. An absolute classic.

[@axxellein]

TRES Cool/Funny

[@david4303]

So typical of the unions back then.

[@mnbv990]

England at it's worst. Hilarious, and a blueprint for the 60 years that followed.

[@heliotropezzz333]

@SpeedTriple59 Yeah, limits on the hours in the working week, no kids or women down the mines or up chimneys. Tragic.

[@SpeedTriple59]

No mines closed down.!!No chimneys?? central heating,but no factorys either...Your Point ..Please???????????

[@ProNorden]

Maybe the best movie ever on union and corporate corruption and disloyalty. Instructive and hilariously funny. Go BNP. Go Nationalist. 'Pro-Family, Stewardship, and Fair Trade.'

[@kevinjackson6387]

Was this British leyland,

[@davewheeler7679]

No it wasn't but it may as well have been.

[@Elitist20]

'We do not and cannot accept the principle that incompetence justifies dismissal, that is victimisation.'

[@neilcam2001]

Sorry that's top secrer

[@deanstanley5799]

Who’s the bloke with no teeth in ?🤷‍♂️😂

[@voxac30withstrat]

British Comedy in its heyday. For year my dad and I used to listen to the Goon Show every Saturday at noon here in Australia. I learnt an aweful lot about how one can manipulate the english langauge from the Goons and the Likes of Morecombe & Wise, Two Ronnies et al. These days, to my mind at least, we are inundated with truly mediocre American 'laugh-a-second' idiotic 'see-it-coming-from-a-mile-away' sitcoms.

[@govcalif]

who still believes in crypto

[@terrythomas8482]

My childhood hero ❤