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54% Critic Match
Lucky Jim
“A Rollicking Lampoon of University High- and Low-Life!”
5.4 / 10• 1957• 1h 35m•NR• English
Comedy
Storyline
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 & Crew
Ian Carmichael
Jim Dixon
Lead
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)
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. John Boulting's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Lucky Jim is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
