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17/09/1957 Comedy 1h 35m
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A Rollicking Lampoon of University High- and Low-Life!

Overview

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.

  1. John Boulting

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Ian Carmichael

    Jim Dixon

  2. Terry-Thomas

    Bertrand Welch

  3. Hugh Griffith

    Professor Welch

  4. Sharon Acker

    Christine Callaghan

  5. Jean Anderson

    Mrs. Welch

  6. Maureen Connell

    Margaret Peel

  7. Clive Morton

    Sir Hector Gore-Urquhart

  8. John Welsh

    The Principal (as John Welch)

  9. Reginald Beckwith

    University Porter

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2023-02-15
I think this is what they call a "loose" adaptation - this time of Kingsley Amis' eponymous novel - that follows the largely mis-adventures of young schoolmaster Ian Carmichael ("Jim Dixon") as he tries to teach his pupils, keep his job, arrange a vice-chancellor's ceremony and get the girl! The comedy is quickly paced, if a bit too obvious for my liking, and a great ensemble of British stalwarts including Hugh Griffith as his boss ("Prof. Welch) who bears a startling resemblance to the school gargoyle; Sharon Acker as the object of his clumsy affections ("Christine"), Margaret Connell, Regina...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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