Lucky Jim (1957)
A Rollicking Lampoon of University High- and Low-Life!
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.
- Date of release
- 1957-09-17
- TMDB
- 5.4 / 10 (26)
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- John Boulting
Casting
- 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
Interesting facts
- Based on: Lucky Jim
Lucky Jim is a 1957 British comedy film directed by John Boulting and starring Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas and Hugh Griffith. It is an adaptation of the 1954 novel Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis.
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