Lucky Jim
Lucky Jim is a 1957 British comedy film directed by John Boulting and starring Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas and Hugh Griffith. It is an adaptation of the 1954 novel Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis.
Plot
Jim Dixon is a young lecturer in history at a redbrick university, who manages to offend his head of department and create various disastrous incidents. When he eventually delivers a lecture drunk, he feels forced to resign. But just as his career seems over, he is offered a job in London, and when he learns that the girl of his dreams is on her way to the railway station, he chases after her in the professor's old car. The professor's whole family chases after, and arrives at the station just in time to see Jim and the girl disappear on the train to London.
More details
author | Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy |
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director | John Boulting |
editor | Max Benedict |
genre | comedy |
keywords | force lecturer old car railway station redbrick university |
musicBy | John Addison |
producer | Roy Boulting |
productionCompany | Charter Film Productions |
publisher | British Lion Films Kingsley-International Pictures |
theme | satirical |