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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.
Original Release
09/17/1957
US Release
08/30/1958
Cast
Name | Character |
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John Welsh | The Principal (as John Welch) / The Principal |
Ronald Cardew | Registrar |
Hugh Griffith | Professor Welch |
Kenneth Griffith | Cyril Johns |
Ian Carmichael | Jim Dixon |
Jeremy Hawk | Bill Atkinson |
Penny Morrell | Miss Wilson |
Maureen Connell | Margaret Peel |
Reginald Beckwith | University Porter |
Jean Anderson | Mrs. Welch |
Directors
Writers
Kingsley Amis, Patrick Campbell, Jeffrey Dell
Cast
Name | Character |
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John Welsh | The Principal (as John Welch) / The Principal |
Ronald Cardew | Registrar |
Hugh Griffith | Professor Welch |
Kenneth Griffith | Cyril Johns |
Ian Carmichael | Jim Dixon |
Jeremy Hawk | Bill Atkinson |
Penny Morrell | Miss Wilson |
Maureen Connell | Margaret Peel |
Reginald Beckwith | University Porter |
Jean Anderson | Mrs. Welch |
Ian Wilson | Glee Singer |
Sharon Acker | Christine Callaghan |
Terry-Thomas | Bertrand Welch |
Clive Morton | Sir Hector Gore-Urquhart |
Charles Lamb | Contractor |
Henry B. Longhurst | Professor Hutchinson (as Henry Longhurst) / Professor Hutchinson |
Jeremy Longhurst | Waiter |
Pamela Chamberlain | Student at Lecture |
Pauline Chamberlain | Woman doing Conga |
Mabel Etherington | University Lecturer |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Roy Boulting | Producer |