Lucky Jim

Lucky Jim

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

1957 · 95 min · ★ 5.4 · Comedy

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.

Directed by John Boulting · Written by Patrick Campbell

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Ian Carmichael Jim Dixon
Terry-Thomas Bertrand Welch
Hugh Griffith Professor Welch
Sharon Acker Christine Callaghan
Jean Anderson Mrs. Welch
Maureen Connell Margaret Peel
Clive Morton Sir Hector Gore-Urquhart
John Welsh The Principal (as John Welch)
Reginald Beckwith University Porter
Kenneth Griffith Cyril Johns
Jeremy Hawk Bill Atkinson
Ronald Cardew Registrar

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