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    Lucky Jim (1957)

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    “A Redbrick University in Britain’s new Elizabethan age: here are moulded the intellectual Drakes and Raleighs of tomorrow – fearless, independent . . . and state supported.”

    This likeable and lively British comedy from 1957 revolves around Jim Dixon (Ian Carmichael), a junior history lecturer at a provincial university.

    Jim is a well-intentioned misfit with a flair for deflating sham and pomposity, and top of his private blacklist is Professor Welch (Hugh Griffith), smug, overbearing head of the history department.

    Invited to the professor’s home for a ‘cultural weekend’, Jim – a northern grammar school boy made good – leaves a  trail of disaster in his wake . . .

    The film ends happily with Jim getting the girl (Christine Callaghan played by Sharon Acker) but only after a chase-sequence involving a series of unconvincing studio shots.

    Adapted from the first (and best) novel by Kingsley Amis, the film substitutes physical comedy for much of the novel’s satire.

    Jim Dixon
    Ian Carmichael
    Bertrand Welch
    Terry-Thomas
    Professor Welch
    Hugh Griffith
    Christine Callaghan
    Sharon Acker
    Margaret Peel
    Maureen Connell
    Mrs Welch
    Jean Anderson
    Sir Hector Gore-Urquhart
    Clive Morton
    Porter
    Reginald Beckwith
    Cyril Johns
    Kenneth Griffith
    Bill Atkinson
    Jeremy Hawk
    Bob Roberts
    John Cairney
    Miss Wilson
    Penny Morrell 
    Principal

    John Welch
    Professor Hutchinson
    Henry Longhurst
    Registrar
    Ronald Cardew
    Glee Singer
    Ian Wilson

    Director
    John Boulting

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