Film Review: Lucky Jim, 1957

Hmmm!?

As daft as this is, and as annoying as I found a good deal of it, it almost/kind of comes good in the end. Just about.

I think I’m realising that whilst some films from this era have aged superbly (from Kind Hearts & Coronets to Went The Day Well?, plucking just two from the aether), others haven’t. And the comedies of the Boultings quite often, it seems to me, to fall into this latter category.

Based on this Amis novel.

Ian Carmichael plays the titular role, and is a teacher …

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