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Lucky Jim (1957) [N/A]

Release Date:
September 17, 1957

Original Title:
Lucky Jim

Genres:
Comedy

Production Companies:
Boulting Brothers
British Lion Films
Charter Film Productions

Production Countries:
United Kingdom

Ratings / Certifications:
GB: U 

Runtime: 95

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

Overview from TheMovieDB

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.

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Production

Additional Writing:
Jeffrey Dell

Assistant Art Director:
Reg Bream

Assistant Director:
Philip Shipway

Camera Operator:
Ray Sturgess

Continuity:
Beryl Booth

Director:
John Boulting

Director of Photography:
Max Greene

Editor:
Max Benedict

Hairdresser:
Polly Young

Makeup Artist:
Eric Aylott

Music Director:
John Addison

Novel:
Kingsley Amis

Original Music Composer:
John Addison

Producer:
Roy Boulting

Production Supervisor:
Henry Passmore

Screenplay:
Patrick Campbell

Set Designer:
Elliot Scott

Songs:
Fred V. Bowers
Charles Horwitz

Sound Editor:
Jim Shields

Sound Recordist:
Sid Wiles
J.B. Smith

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