Lucky Jim (1957)
- Starring:
- Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, (more)
- Director(s):
- Roy Boulting, John Boulting, (more)
Synopsis of Lucky Jim
Lucky Jim is based on the same-named satirical novel by Kingsley Amis. The hero, Jim Dixon (Ian Carmichael), is a well-intentioned junior history professor in an unnamed British university. Hoping to impress the new chancellor, Jim succeeds only in bollixing up everything he touches. When he's not stuck in the middle of a slapstick car chase, Jim is trying to think up an excuse for that slightly inebriated blonde with whom he is innocently sharing a boudoir. Blunder piles upon blunder, until it looks as though Jim's chances at survival in the university are slim to none. But Fortune smiles upon fools and Kingsley Amis heroes, thus there's a happy ending. Lucky Jim delivers the laughs in full measure, though it's hardly the best of the Boulting Brothers productions of the 1950s. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Lucky Jim
- Ian Carmichael - Jim Dixon
- Hugh Griffith - Prof. Welch
- Jean Anderson - Mrs. Welch
- Maureen Connell - Margaret Peel
- Reginald Beckwith - University Porter
- Charles Lamb - Contractor
- Henry Longhurst - Prof. Hutchinson
- Ian Wilson - Glee Singer
- Ronald Cardew - Registrar
- Joan Greenwood
- Terry-Thomas - Bertrand Welch
- Sharon Acker - Christine Callaghan
- Clive Morton - Sir Hector Gore-Urquhart
- Kenneth Griffith - Cyril Johns
- Jeremy Hawk - Bill Atkinson
- Jeremy Longhurst - Waiter
- John Cairney - Roberts
- Penny Morrell - Miss Wilson
- Harry Fowler - Taxi Driver
- John Welsh - The Principal
- Director(s):
- Roy Boulting, John Boulting
- Writer(s):
- Jeffrey Dell, Patrick Campbell
- Producer(s):
- Roy Boulting
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