Lucky Jim

Lucky Jim (1957) is a comedy film directed by John Boulting rated 5.4/10.

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.

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)

Reginald Beckwith

University Porter

Kenneth Griffith

Cyril Johns

Jeremy Hawk

Bill Atkinson

Ronald Cardew

Registrar