Lucky Jim

Name: Lucky Jim
Director: John Boulting
Released: 1957-09-17T00:00:00+00:00
Rating: 5.4

1957 · TMDB 5.4

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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Jim Dixon, a young lecturer at a provincial redbrick university, struggles to keep his job while satirising the pretensions of his pompous professor and the absurdities of academic life.

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Ian Carmichael Terry-Thomas Hugh Griffith Sharon Acker Jean Anderson Maureen Connell Clive Morton John Welsh Reginald Beckwith Kenneth Griffith Jeremy Hawk Ronald Cardew

Director · John Boulting Producer · Roy Boulting Writer · Patrick Campbell Cinematography · Max Greene Composer · John Addison Editor · Max Benedict

Runtime: 95 min
Released: 1957-09-17
Studio: British Lion Films
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
TMDB score: 5.4

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Jim Dixon, a young lecturer at a provincial redbrick university, struggles to keep his job while satirising the pretensions of his pompous professor and the absurdities of academic life.