But despite these flaws, it remains a watch able enough movie. It has always made me laugh out loud Helen. The final chase is, as been noted, the movie's weakest link (it seems to come out of nowhere and does not fit in with the rest of the film) and is it fair from being the best Amiss adaptation (that honour belongs to the wonderful 'Only Two Can Play'). Jim Dixon, a junior lecturer in history at a provincial English university in the years after World War II, nears the end of his first year at the school. A brilliantly and preposterously funny book GuardianA flawless comic novel.
A first rate cast adds to the fun, in particular a small but perfectly formed cameo by Terry-Thomas steals the movie. Perhaps he isn't the Dixon of the book, but it is a fair attempt. The combination of a (realistic) Northern accent, plus a slightly harder edged characterisation, helps distance him from his usual 'silly ass' image. Ian Charmichael is at his best in this movie. MFS Modern Fiction Studies 47.1 (2001) 92-117 In Key to the Door (1961), Alan Sillitoe's autobiographical novel set in Nottingham during the 1930s, Harold Seaton takes his young son, Brian, to. While the novel's bite may have been lost, the movie's troubled production history (a few weeks into the filming, the original director, Ealing's Charles Crichton, was replaced) fails to show on the finished film. Lucky Jim Paperback Jby Kingsley Amis (Author), David Lodge (Introduction) 1,384 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 9.87 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 14.08 22 Used from 9.54 4 Collectible from 55.00 Paperback 29.99 72 Used from 1.59 2 New from 20.
Fans of Kingsley Amis's brilliant novel might with justification hate this adaptation, but taken on its own terms, it is an enjoyable slice of 'fifties British comedy.
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