Movie: Lucky Jim

Top 10 Billed Cast

Ian Carmichael
Ian Carmichael

Jim Dixon

Terry-Thomas
Terry-Thomas

Bertrand Welch

Hugh Griffith
Hugh Griffith

Professor Welch

Sharon Acker
Sharon Acker

Christine Callaghan

Jean Anderson
Jean Anderson

Mrs. Welch

Maureen Connell
Maureen Connell

Margaret Peel

Clive Morton
Clive Morton

Sir Hector Gore-Urquhart

John Welsh
John Welsh

The Principal (as John Welch)

Reginald Beckwith
Reginald Beckwith

University Porter

Kenneth Griffith
Kenneth Griffith

Cyril Johns

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  • 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.

  • Release Date

    1957-09-17

  • Average

    5.5

  • Rating:

    2.8 starts
  • Tagline

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

  • Genres

  • Languages:

    English
  • Keywords

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