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.
John Boulting
Director
Ian Carmichael
Jim Dixon
Terry-Thomas
Bertrand Welch
Hugh Griffith
Professor Welch
Sharon Acker
Christine Callaghan
Jean Anderson
Mrs. Welch
Maureen Connell
Margaret Peel
Clive Morton
Sir Hector Gore-Urquhart
John Welsh
The Principal (as John Welch)
Reginald Beckwith
University Porter
Kenneth Griffith
Cyril Johns
Jeremy Hawk
Bill Atkinson
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The trainwreck is hot but tame.
The plot lags, the moral lessons are misguided, but are those fluffy little donut creatures adorable? Yes. Yes, they are.
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