Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #26623 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-08-09
• Rating: Universal, suitable for all
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Black & White, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 91 minutes

Synopsis
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.

DVD Description
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!

Customer Reviews

Ooooooh, Lucky Jim!
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.

Classic British Comedy
Iam Carmichael plays a hapless teacher where everything goes wrong. A time when comedy was pure. Highly recommend it.

Funny, but nothing like the novel
I sat down with great anticipation to watch this film. I was hoping for a 'Brideshead Revisited' experience, but it was more like 'Please Sir!' Lucky Jim is one of my all-time favourite books - and my kids' too. The film does not do justice to the book in any way; perhaps the time is right for someone to attempt a proper dramatisation of the book, with its subtle portrayal of character, its dry humour, its incomparable wit. Don't get me wrong, this film is funny; it has several genuine belly laughs, which is more than you get at the cinema these days, but it's mostly a slapstick, broad humour that is more Carry-On than the intellectual gymnastics of the original work . Ian Carmichael is surprisingly attractive in this film (he reminded me of Mike Myers!) -but again, not the Jim Dixon of Amis' novel. It is nostalgic to watch films made in the 1950s, and i would say - watch this film if you like old films. But for God's sake, don't expect the Lucky Jim you know and love.