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B
Strong
MASTER SCORE 59.7 / 100
1957·Comedy·1h 35m

LUCKY JIM

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

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.

Above the Line
John Boulting·DirectorPatrick Campbell·ScreenplayKingsley Amis·NovelMax Greene·Director of PhotographyJohn Addison·Original Music ComposerMax Benedict·Editor
Cast
Ian Carmichael·Jim DixonTerry-Thomas·Bertrand WelchHugh Griffith·Professor WelchSharon Acker·Christine CallaghanJean Anderson·Mrs. WelchMaureen Connell·Margaret PeelClive Morton·Sir Hector Gore-UrquhartJohn Welsh·The Principal (as John Welch)Reginald Beckwith·University PorterKenneth Griffith·Cyril Johns
Full Crew
(22 credits)
Directing· 3
John Boulting·DirectorPhilip Shipway·Assistant DirectorBeryl Booth·Continuity
Writing· 2
Patrick Campbell·ScreenplayKingsley Amis·Novel
Camera· 2
Max Greene·Director of PhotographyRay Sturgess·Camera Operator
Editing· 1
Max Benedict·Editor
Sound & Music· 7
John Addison·Original Music ComposerSid Wiles·Sound RecordistJ.B. Smith·Sound RecordistJim Shields·Sound EditorJohn Addison·Music DirectorFred V. Bowers·SongsCharles Horwitz·Songs
Art & Design· 3
Eric Aylott·Makeup ArtistReg Bream·Assistant Art DirectorElliot Scott·Set Designer
Production· 2
Roy Boulting·ProducerHenry Passmore·Production Supervisor
Other Departments· 2
Jeffrey Dell·Additional WritingPolly Young·Hairdresser
By the Numbers
59.7
OF 100
Master Score
6.0
OF 10
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0
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