Lucky Jim

5.3

95 minutes

9/17/1957

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.

Cast List

Ian Carmichael
as Jim Dixon
Terry-Thomas
as Bertrand Welch
Hugh Griffith
as Professor Welch
Sharon Acker
as Christine Callaghan
Jean Anderson
as Mrs. Welch
Maureen Connell
as Margaret Peel
Clive Morton
as Sir Hector Gore-Urquhart
John Welsh
as The Principal (as John Welch)
Reginald Beckwith
as University Porter
Kenneth Griffith
as Cyril Johns
Jeremy Hawk
as Bill Atkinson
Ronald Cardew
as Registrar
Penny Morrell
as Miss Wilson
John Cairney
as Roberts
Ian Wilson
as Glee Singer
Charles Lamb
as Contractor
Henry B. Longhurst
as Professor Hutchinson (as Henry Longhurst)
Jeremy Longhurst
as Waiter
Al Fernhead
as Singer of "Lucky Jim" (voice)