Lucky Jim
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“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.
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Cast
19 people
Ian Carmichael
Jim Dixon
Known for
School for Scoundrels
I'm All Right Jack
Terry-Thomas
Bertrand Welch
Known for
Robin Hood
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
Hugh Griffith
Professor Welch
Known for
Ben-Hur
The Canterbury Tales
Sharon Acker
Christine Callaghan
Known for
Happy Birthday to Me
Point Blank
Jean Anderson
Mrs. Welch
Known for
The Three Lives of Thomasina
The Lady Vanishes
Maureen Connell
Margaret Peel
Known for
The Abominable Snowman
Skyjacked
Clive Morton
Sir Hector Gore-Urquhart
Known for
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The Lavender Hill Mob
John Welsh
The Principal (as John Welch)
Known for
Krull
The Revenge of Frankenstein
Reginald Beckwith
University Porter
Known for
Night of the Demon
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
Kenneth Griffith
Cyril Johns
Known for
Shaka Zulu
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Jeremy Hawk
Bill Atkinson
Also in
Elizabeth
Shillingbury Tales
Ronald Cardew
Registrar
Known for
North West Frontier
John Boulting Director · Patrick Campbell Screenplay Kingsley Amis Author
First release September 17, 1957 · Produced in United Kingdom · Production Charter Film Productions, Boulting Brothers
Production
British Lion Films
Production
Charter Film Productions
Production
Boulting Brothers
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United Kingdom
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United Kingdom · September 17, 1957
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No release date listed for United States.
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