Movie·1957·1h 35m
Lucky Jim
A Rollicking Lampoon of University High- and Low-Life!
Directed By
John Boulting
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
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// overview
The Story
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.
Written By
Patrick Campbell
Producer
Roy Boulting
Cinematography
Max Greene
Music
John Addison
Editor
Max Benedict
Themes
Production House
Audience Score
25 votes
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// cast
Cast
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
Penny Morrell
Miss Wilson
John Cairney
Roberts
Ian Wilson
Glee Singer
Charles Lamb
Contractor
Henry B. Longhurst
Professor Hutchinson (as Henry Longhurst)
Jeremy Longhurst
Waiter
// crew
Crew
John Boulting
Director
Max Benedict
Editor
John Addison
Original Music Composer
Max Greene
Director of Photography
Roy Boulting
Producer
Patrick Campbell
Screenplay
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