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Lucky Jim (1957)

Directed by John Boulting

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.

Length 95 minutes

Actors

Hugh Griffith | John Welsh | Terry-Thomas | Ian Carmichael | Jean Anderson | Clive Morton | Kenneth Griffith | Reginald Beckwith | John Cairney | Jeremy Longhurst | Henry B. Longhurst | Ian Wilson | Maureen Connell | Sharon Acker | Jeremy Hawk | Penny Morrell | Charles Lamb | Ronald Cardew | Al Fernhead