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Released
Lucky Jim
September 17 1957 (over 67 years ago)Rating
53
Based on
22 reviews
A Rollicking Lampoon of University High- and Low-Life!
- Director: John Boulting
- Writer: Patrick Campbell
- Genre: Comedy
- Runtime: 1 h 35 m
- Country: United Kingdom
- Companies: British Lion Films, Charter Film Productions, Boulting Brothers
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.