Lucky Jim
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DVD Cover Information
Actor: Hugh Griffith, Terry-ThomasPrimary Contributor: Ian Carmichael
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Black & White, NTSC
Running Time: 95 unknown-units
Studio: Nostalgia Home Video
Movie Reviews of Lucky Jim
Movie Review: Lucky Jim
Summary: 5 Stars
This film was based on a Kingsley Amis novel and released in l957. Lucky Jim is played by Ian Carmichael, who is an upper middle class, somewhat eager but anxious and accident prone graduate in his first post at one of England's nouveau, post war universities. He boards together with several colleagues at the home of a stuffy dean and wife with all the usual boarding restrictions, no smoking, no drinking, etc. One does get a glimpse of the spartan conditions prevailing in post war England however. One of the more hilarious scenes is the discovery of his horrified landlady of the holes made in his blanket because of his smoking in bed.
He is also beset by the unwanted attentions of a fellow boarder, a neurotic, hysterical female who is horrified by his amorous behavior while drunk. So the film also furnishes us with a portrait of the frigid, scholastic female who craves male attention but only to a point.
Our hero does get the right gal by the end of the film and enters business, quitting the redbrick, pretentious college. Here we have Kingsley Amis' comment on the state of higher education in post war Britain plus some wonderful portraits of the middle class. Terry Thomas plays the bounder as usual along with a sterling British cast. Highly recommended.
Summary of Lucky Jim
Freewheeling British farce starring Ian Carmichael as a lecturer at a university who finds himself in the middle of all sorts of comic adventures during a special weekend in which he attends a colleague's party and a school function. Terry-Thomas and Hugh Griffith also star in this hilarious adaptation of Kingsley Amis' classic novel. 95 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English.Similar DVD Movies
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