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Bookmark this pageLucky Jim (1957)
Director: John Boulting
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From Time Out Film Guide
Kingsley Amis' novel about redbrick university life turned into likeable but harmless knockabout farce by the Boulting Brothers. The situation of accident-prone, caustic-minded young lecturer Jim Dixon having problems with his girlfriend and his professor - he was promptly annexed as an example of 'Angry Young Man' protest - here lacks all sense of satire, not surprisingly given the casting of the wet Carmichael in the central role. Cosy, undemanding, and quite forgettable.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: John Boulting
Producer: Roy Boulting
Cast: Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Hugh Griffith, Sharon Acker, Maureen Connell, Jean Anderson, Clive Morton, Kenneth Griffith full cast
Duration: 95 mins
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