Lucky Jim (1957)

Lucky Jim (1957)

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

Release Date: 1957, September 17
Directors: John Boulting
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: British Lion Films, Charter Film Productions, Charter Film Productions, Boulting Brothers, Boulting Brothers, Boulting Brothers
Cast: Hugh Griffith, Ian Wilson, Terry Thomas, Reginald Beckwith, Clive Morton, Kenneth Griffith, John Cairney, Jeremy Hawk, Jean Anderson, John Welsh, Sharon Acker, Ian Carmichael

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.