Lucky Jim (1957)
Overview
Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get entangled with unexciting but neurotic Margaret Peel, a friend of the Professor's. All-in-all, the pub is the only friendly place to be. His misery is completed at a dreadful weekend gathering of the Welch clan by the arrival of son Bertrand. Not so much that Betrand is loud-mouthed and boorish - which he is - but that he has as companion Christine Callaghan, the sort of marvellous and unattainable woman Jim can only dream about.
What is Lucky Jim about?
Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get entangled with unexciting but neurotic Margaret Peel, a friend of the Professor's. All-in-all, the pub is the only friendly place to be. His misery is completed at a dreadful weekend gathering of the Welch clan by the arrival of son Bertrand. Not so much that Betrand is loud-mouthed and boorish - which he is - but that he has as companion Christine Callaghan, the sort of marvellous and unattainable woman Jim can only dream about. Lucky Jim is a Comedy movie, released on 1957-09-17, runtime 95 minutes.
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TMDB users rate Lucky Jim 5.4 out of 10 from 26 ratings. Reviews are mixed.
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Directed by
John Boulting
Cast
- Ian Carmichael as Jim Dixon
- Terry-Thomas as Bertrand Welch
- Hugh Griffith as Professor Welch
- Sharon Acker as Christine Callaghan
- Jean Anderson as Mrs. Welch
- Maureen Connell as Margaret Peel
- Clive Morton as Sir Hector Gore-Urquhart
- John Welsh as The Principal (as John Welch)
- Reginald Beckwith as University Porter
- Kenneth Griffith as Cyril Johns
- Jeremy Hawk as Bill Atkinson
- Ronald Cardew as Registrar
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