Lucky Jim

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

Lucky Jim — Plot

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.

• Release date
• September 17, 1957
• Runtime
• 95 min
• Genres
• Comedy
• Director
• John Boulting

Lucky Jim — 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)