6/12/2023 0 Comments Lucky jim by kingsley amis![]() ![]() ![]() was his portrayal of Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim-the anti-hero James Dixon, who savaged the pretensions of academia, as Amis had himself sometimes clashed with academia when he was a lecturer at Swansea. In his 2010 obituary of Ian Carmichael, Guardian contributor Dennis Barker wrote: "One of his most characteristic and memorable sorties. When the film premiered in the United States a year later, Howard Thompson of The New York Times described Ian Carmichael as "an English answer to Jerry Lewis": "let's fervently hope this stale attempt at mirth, furiously sliding back and forth from leaden coyness to plain custard-pie confusion, doesn't mean the end of all the sly, civilized fun we've come to expect from the British specialists." ![]() The film critic writing for The Times, gave the film a mixed review after the UK premiere in September 1957, stating that the film, "carries over enough gusto from the original to be funnier than the usual run of British comedies, without managing to avoid lapses into incoherence through pressing the Joke too far." Longhurst - Professor HutchinsonĪccording to Kinematograph Weekly the film was "in the money" at the British box office in 1957. Clive Morton - Sir Hector Gore-Urquhart. ![]()
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