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Lucky Jim (1957)

★ 5.4/10 95 min Comedy United Kingdom English
Director: John Boulting
Novel: Kingsley Amis
Screenplay by: Patrick Campbell
Streaming: Not available
A Rollicking Lampoon of University High- and Low-Life!

Description

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.

Top Cast

Ian Carmichael
Ian Carmichael Jim Dixon
Terry-Thomas
Terry-Thomas Bertrand Welch
Hugh Griffith
Hugh Griffith Professor Welch
Sharon Acker
Sharon Acker Christine Callaghan
Jean Anderson
Jean Anderson Mrs. Welch
Maureen Connell
Maureen Connell Margaret Peel
Clive Morton
Clive Morton Sir Hector Gore-Urquhart
John Welsh
John Welsh The Principal (as John Welch)

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