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Lucky Jim

1957 95 min ★ 5.4 Comedy

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.

Director: John Boulting

Cast

Ian Carmichael Ian Carmichael Jim Dixon
Terry-Thomas Terry-Thomas Bertrand Welch
Hugh Griffith Hugh Griffith Professor Welch
Sharon Acker Sharon Acker Christine Callaghan
Jean Anderson Jean Anderson Mrs. Welch
Maureen Connell Maureen Connell Margaret Peel
Clive Morton Clive Morton Sir Hector Gore-Urquhart
John Welsh John Welsh The Principal (as John Welch)
Reginald Beckwith Reginald Beckwith University Porter
Kenneth Griffith Kenneth Griffith Cyril Johns
Jeremy Hawk Jeremy Hawk Bill Atkinson
Ronald Cardew Ronald Cardew Registrar