Lucky Jim

Sep 17, 1957

1h 35m

★ 5.4

A Rollicking Lampoon of University High- and Low-Life!

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.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

British Lion Films

Charter Film Productions

Boulting Brothers

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Cast

Jim Dixon

Ian Carmichael

Bertrand Welch

Terry-Thomas

Professor Welch

Hugh Griffith

Christine Callaghan

Sharon Acker

Mrs. Welch

Jean Anderson

Margaret Peel

Maureen Connell

Sir Hector Gore-Urquhart

Clive Morton

The Principal (as John Welch)

John Welsh

University Porter

Reginald Beckwith

Cyril Johns

Kenneth Griffith

Bill Atkinson

Jeremy Hawk

Registrar

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