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{{About|a film directed by John Boulting| 2003 British television film directed by Robin Sheppard|Lucky Jim (2003 film)}}

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{{Infobox film
| name = Lucky Jim
| image = Lucky Jim film poster.jpg
| caption = Original British [[film poster#United Kingdom|quad format]] film poster
| director = [[John Boulting]]
| producer = [[Roy Boulting]]
| screenplay = [[Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy|Patrick Campbell]]
| based_on = {{based on|''[[Lucky Jim]]''|[[Kingsley Amis]]}}
| starring = [[Ian Carmichael]]<br />[[Terry-Thomas]]<br />[[Hugh Griffith]]<br />[[Sharon Acker]]
| music = [[John Addison]]
| cinematography = [[Mutz Greenbaum]]
| editing = [[Max Benedict]]
| studio = Charter Film Productions
| distributor = [[British Lion Films]] (UK)<br />[[Kingsley-International Pictures]] (US)
| released = {{Film date|df=y|1957|09|17|UK}}
| runtime = 95 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
}}
'''''Lucky Jim''''' is a 1957 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[John Boulting]] and starring [[Ian Carmichael]], [[Terry-Thomas]] and [[Hugh Griffith]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6af5ac9b|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120713141945/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6af5ac9b|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-07-13|title=Lucky Jim (1957)|work=BFI}}</ref> It is an adaptation of the 1954 novel ''[[Lucky Jim]]'' by [[Kingsley Amis]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/465385/index.html|title=BFI Screenonline: Lucky Jim (1957)|work=screenonline.org.uk}}</ref>

==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.

==Main cast==
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* [[Ian Carmichael]] - James "Jim" Dixon
* [[Terry-Thomas]] - Bertrand Welch
* [[Hugh Griffith]] - Professor Welch
* [[Sharon Acker]] - Christine Callaghan
* [[Jean Anderson]] - Mrs Welch
* [[Maureen Connell]] - Margaret Peel
* [[Clive Morton]] - Sir Hector Gore-Urquhart
* [[John Welsh (actor)|John Welsh]] - The Principal
* [[Reginald Beckwith]] - University Porter
* [[Kenneth Griffith]] - Cyril Johns
* [[Jeremy Hawk]] - Bill Atkinson
* Ronald Cardew - Registrar
* [[Penny Morrell]] - Miss Wilson
* [[John Cairney]] - Roberts
* [[Ian Wilson (actor)|Ian Wilson]] - Glee Singer
* [[Charles Lamb (actor)|Charles Lamb]] - Contractor
* [[Henry Longhurst (actor)|Henry B. Longhurst]] - Professor Hutchinson
* Jeremy Longhurst - Waiter
{{div col end}}

==Reception==
The film critic writing for ''[[The Times]]'', gave the film a mixed review after the UK premiere in September 1957, stating that the film, "carries over enough gusto from the original to be funnier than the usual run of British comedies, without managing to avoid lapses into incoherence through pressing the Joke too far."<ref>The Times, 30 September 1957, page 3 - read via The Times Digital Archive on 21/08/2013</ref>

When the film premiered in the United States a year later, Howard Thompson of ''[[The New York Times]]'' described Ian Carmichael as "an English answer to [[Jerry Lewis]]": "let's fervently hope this stale attempt at mirth, furiously sliding back and forth from leaden coyness to plain custard-pie confusion, doesn't mean the end of all the sly, civilized fun we've come to expect from the British specialists."<ref>{{cite news|last=Thompson|first=Howard|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1958/09/01/archives/the-screen-lucky-jim-comedy-from-britain-opens-at-paris.html|title='Lucky Jim'; Comedy From Britain Opens at Paris|newspaper=The New York Times, 1 September 1958|access-date=4 July 2022}}</ref>

In his 2010 obituary of Ian Carmichael, ''[[The Guardian|Guardian]]'' contributor [[Dennis Barker]] wrote: "One of his most characteristic and memorable sorties... was his portrayal of Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim—the anti-hero James Dixon, who savaged the pretensions of academia, as Amis had himself sometimes clashed with academia when he was a lecturer at [[University College of Swansea|Swansea]]. Appearing in John and Roy Boulting's 1957 film, he was able to suggest an unruly but amiable spirit at the end of its tether, his great horsey teeth exposed in the strained grimace that often greeted disaster."<ref>{{cite news|title=Ian Carmichael obituary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2010/feb/06/ian-carmichael-obituary|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220204114946/https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2010/feb/06/ian-carmichael-obituary|archive-date=4 February 2022|location=London |work=The Guardian|last=Barker |first=Dennis |date=6 February 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref>

==Song==
The film's end titles credit "the voice of Al Fernhead" with singing the distinctive repeated "O Lucky Jim" phrase, from the [[eponym]]ous song whose composers are credited as Fred V. Bowers and Charles Horwitz. The Bowers–Horwitz song "Ah, lucky Jim" inspired the book's title.<ref>Paul Schlueter, "Academic Humor", in Maurice Charney, ''Comedy: A Geographic and Historical Guide'', vol. 1 (Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2005), p. 14.</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{BFI}}
* {{Screenonline title|465385}}
* {{IMDb title}}

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[[Category:Films directed by John Boulting]]
[[Category:Films scored by John Addison]]
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