Lucky Jim
1957 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom
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.
Direction John Boulting
Cast John Welsh · Ronald Cardew · Hugh Griffith · Kenneth Griffith · Ian Carmichael · Jeremy Hawk · Penny Morrell · John Cairney · Maureen Connell · Reginald Beckwith · Jean Anderson · Ian Wilson · Sharon Acker · Terry-Thomas
Soundtrack John Addison
Screenplay Patrick Campbell · Jeffrey Dell · Kingsley Amis
Cinematography Mutz Greenbaum
Original title Lucky Jim
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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