- Actors: Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Hugh Griffith, Sharon Acker, Jean Anderson
- Directors: John Boulting
- Writers: Jeffrey Dell, Kingsley Amis, Patrick Campbell
- Producers: Roy Boulting
- Format: PAL
- Language English
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: U
- Studio: Cinema Club
- DVD Release Date: 9 Aug 2004
- Run Time: 95 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B0001P1B34
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 32,264 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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Amusing adaptation of the book by Kingsley Amis directed by John Boulting (I'm All Right Jack ) and starring the classic comedy coupling of Ian Carmichael and Terry Thomas. Lucky Jim is about an accident-prone junior lecturer at a small university who spends one hell of a weekend at the home of his disagreeable Professor Welch.
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From the novel by Kingsley Amis, about a young lecturer Jim Dixon (Ian Carmichael) who is dismayed at the prospect of spending a weekend at his professor's home. Having made a hash of the weekend, as well as falling in love with Christine (Sharon Acker) whom he meets there, he's given a second chance by presenting a lecture, but some things are easier said than done!
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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Ooooooh, Lucky Jim!,
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This review is from: Lucky Jim [DVD] (DVD)
Young university lecturer Jim Dixon (a brilliant performance from Ian Carmichael) is accident prone and sucks up to his departmental Head in order to get his contract extended. The Head (a wonderfully eccentric performance by Hugh Griffith) uses Dixon mercilessly, but Dixon's talent for messing up even the simplest of chores provides a highly entertaining sequence of chaotic results. There are so many hilarious bits in this film, including Dixon sharing a bottle of cherry brandy with a boxer dog (and the unfortunate results of this), as well as Dixon's inebriated lecture on "Merrie England". Terry-Thomas, as the head's pompous son, also gives a note-worthy performance. A great cast, a good story and a series of cringingly hilarious antics all make for good entertainment.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Academia and stuffiness comes under the Boulting's microscope.,
By Spike Owen "John Rouse Merriott Chard" (Birmingham, England.) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)
This review is from: Lucky Jim [DVD] (DVD)
Lucky Jim is directed by John Boulting and adapted from the Kingsley Amis novel of the same name. It stars Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Hugh Griffith, Sharon Acker and Jean Anderson.
A Redbrick university In Britain's New Elizabethan Age: Here Are Moulded The Intellectual Drakes And Raleighs Of Tomorrow-Fearless, Independent- - And State Supported! Enter Carmichael's accident prone Jim Dixon, who in order to keep his job at the University has to do the bidding for Griffith's dull Professor Welch. Worse still, maybe, is having to spend time with his boorish family, especially the Son, pompous show off Bertrand (Thomas). Salvation may come in the form of Bertrand's companion, though, Christine Callaghan (Acker)? I haven't read the Amis novel this is based on, so can't have frame of reference there. By all accounts it's very different, and staunch Amis supporters are very dismissive of the Boulting movie. The film itself is hardly prime Boullting Brothers, who would produce British classics such as Brighton Rock and I'm All Right Jack, but it has a number of funny scenes whilst also being nicely flecked with satirical flavouring. Carmichael attacks the lead role with gusto and comic affability, while "scary eyebrows" Griffith and Terry-Thomas provide good comedy footings for Carmichael to work from. The ladies are pretty and effective enough, without really doing anything any other British actress of the time couldn't have done, but all told it's a well acted and genial time filler for the undemanding. 6.5/10
8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good adaption of popular comic novel,
By Lou Knee (England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Lucky Jim [DVD] (DVD)
This is a very solid version of the popular novel which helped introduce a new wave of slightly subversive novels, both funny and serious, to the public. Seems harmless now, but the idea of a university lecturer getting into all the low escapades that Jim Dixon got himself into was considered slightly risque back in the grey conservative 1950s. Carmichael was the obvious choice really to play hapless Jim, but others put in strong performances that give the film some depth, notably Terry-Thomas, who proves here he could play far deeper roles than just the one dimensional bounder he sadly became typecast as. Has a good rounded feel to it and is loyal to the novel in both plot, and in poking gentle fun at the air of stuffiness that then hung over academia, and generally over the whole of British life.
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