Lucky Jim

Release Date: 1957-09-17

Overview: 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.

Rating: 5.354 / 10

Cast

Ian Carmichael

as Jim Dixon

Terry-Thomas

as Bertrand Welch

Hugh Griffith

as Professor Welch

Sharon Acker

as Christine Callaghan

Jean Anderson

as Mrs. Welch

Crew

John Boulting - Director
J.B. Smith - Sound Recordist
Ray Sturgess - Camera Operator
Philip Shipway - Assistant Director
Jim Shields - Sound Editor

Reviews

CinemaSerf:

I think this is what they call a "loose" adaptation - this time of Kingsley Amis' eponymous novel - that follows the largely mis-adventures of young schoolmaster Ian Carmichael ("Jim Dixon") as he tri...