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 ...
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Registrar
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Cyril Johns
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Miss Wilson
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Reginald Beckwith | ... |
University Porter
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Mrs. Welch
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Sir Hector Gore-Urquhart
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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. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
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17 September 1957 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
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and the voice of Al Fernhead singing
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The taxi used by Jim and Christine when leaving the ball has 'Taxi' on a paper sign in the windscreen which is not there in long shot. See more »Crazy Credits
Opening credits prologue: A Redbrick University in Britain's new Elizabethan age: here are moulded the intellectual Drakes and Raleighs of tomorrow - fearless, independent - and state supported See more »Soundtracks
Lucky Jimand the voice of Al Fernhead singing
by Fred V. Bowers and Charles Horwitz
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(34%) Of all the classic British comedies of the 50's and 60's this is perhaps my least favourite I've seen so far. It's not a terrible film by any means, but once compared to solid gold classics such a The lady killers, Whisky galore, or my personal choice The Titfield thunderbolt, then this looks more than a little lacking. I think the main problem here is that the script is based off a satirical novel that I'm guessing works much better on the page than on it does on the screen with its very dry sense of humour getting lost somewhere along the way. It doesn't also help that lucky Jim himself is not really a likable person, or indeed a very interesting one either. Also this works way too hard to get only mild laughs, the support characters are also dry and dull, and by the end I still hadn't really warmed to the lead character who quite frankly is a bit of git. A lucky git, but a git nevertheless. Besides the always fun Terry-Thomas, and the fact it is quite well made there's not a lot here in terms of laughs or anything else.