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Lucky Jim

A Rollicking Lampoon of University High- and Low-Life!
Sep 17, 1957 · 1h 35m
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Comedy

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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

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)
Directed by John Boulting

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
British Lion Films, Charter Film Productions, Boulting Brothers
Country
US, GB

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