Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6/10
26 audience votes
Key crew
- John BoultingDirector
- John AddisonOriginal Music Composer
- Patrick CampbellScreenplay
Cast
- Ian CarmichaelJim Dixon
- Terry-ThomasBertrand Welch
- Hugh GriffithProfessor Welch
- Sharon AckerChristine Callaghan
- Jean AndersonMrs. Welch
- Maureen ConnellMargaret Peel
- Clive MortonSir Hector Gore-Urquhart
- John WelshThe Principal (as John Welch)
- Reginald BeckwithUniversity Porter
- Kenneth GriffithCyril Johns
- Jeremy HawkBill Atkinson
- Ronald CardewRegistrar
Stills
Themes
professoruniversity