Lucky Jim poster

Lucky Jim( 1957)

TV-MAComedy
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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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Ian Carmichael

      Jim Dixon

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      Terry-Thomas

      Bertrand Welch

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      Hugh Griffith

      Professor Welch

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      Sharon Acker

      Christine Callaghan

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      Jean Anderson

      Mrs. Welch

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      Maureen Connell

      Margaret Peel

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      Clive Morton

      Sir Hector Gore-Urquhart

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      John Welsh

      The Principal (as John Welch)

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      Reginald Beckwith

      University Porter

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      Kenneth Griffith

      Cyril Johns

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      Jeremy Hawk

      Bill Atkinson

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      Ronald Cardew

      Registrar

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      Penny Morrell

      Miss Wilson

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      John Cairney

      Roberts

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      Ian Wilson

      Glee Singer

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      Charles Lamb

      Contractor

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      Henry B. Longhurst

      Professor Hutchinson (as Henry Longhurst)

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      Jeremy Longhurst

      Waiter

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      Al Fernhead

      Singer of "Lucky Jim" (voice)

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    A review by CinemaSerf

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    Written by CinemaSerf on Wed Feb 15 2023
    I think this is what they call a "loose" adaptation - this time of Kingsley Amis' eponymous novel - that follows the largely mis-adventures of young schoolmaster Ian Carmichael ("Jim Dixon") as he tries to teach his pupils, keep his job, arrange a vice-chancellor's ceremony and get the girl! The comedy is quickly paced, if a bit too obvious for my liking, and a great ensemble of British stalwarts including Hugh Griffith as his boss ("Prof. Welch) who bears a startling resemblance to the school gargoyle; Sharon Acker as the object of his clumsy affections ("Christine"), Margaret Connell, Reginal...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

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    Revenue

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    Keywords

    • professor
    • university