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Lucky Jim
Lucky Jim

Lucky Jim

A Rollicking Lampoon of University High- and Low-Life!

Genres

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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Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Runtime

95 mins

Rating

5.5/10

Release Date

17 September 1957

Country

United Kingdom

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

Penny Morrell

Penny Morrell

Miss Wilson

John Cairney

John Cairney

Roberts

Ian Wilson

Ian Wilson

Glee Singer

Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb

Contractor

Henry B. Longhurst

Henry B. Longhurst

Professor Hutchinson (as Henry Longhurst)

Jeremy Longhurst

Jeremy Longhurst

Waiter

Al Fernhead

Al Fernhead

Singer of "Lucky Jim" (voice)

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