Lord Jim (1965)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

Richard Brooks

Writers:

Richard Brooks (written by)
Joseph Conrad (novel)

Release Date:

25 February 1965 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama

Tagline:

Between Suez and the China Sea.... ...many nameless men live and die unknown!

Plot:

After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman (Peter O'Toole) lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Based on Joseph Conrad's novel written in 1900.

Plot Keywords:

Naval Officer | Merchant Marine | Inquiry | Lifeboat | Warlord

Awards:

Nominated for 2 BAFTA Film Awards.

US TV Schedule:

Sat. July 25

8:30 AM

TCM

Cast

Peter O'Toole	...	Lord Jim
James Mason	...	Gentleman Brown
Curd Jürgens	...	Cornelius (as Curt Jurgens)
Eli Wallach	...	The General
Jack Hawkins	...	Marlow
Paul Lukas	...	Stein
Daliah Lavi	...	The Girl
Akim Tamiroff	...	Schomberg
Juzo Itami	...	Waris (as Ichizo Itami)
Tatsuo Saito	...	Du-Ramin
Andrew Keir	...	Brierly
Jack MacGowran	...	Robinson
Eric Young	...	Malay
Noel Purcell	...	Captain Chester
Walter Gotell	...	Captain of Patna

Runtime:

154 min

Country:

UK | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.20 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (35 mm prints) | 70 mm 6-Track (Westrex Recording System) (70 mm prints)

Certification:

UK:PG | Finland:K-12 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:U (original rating)

Filming Locations:

Angkor Wat, Cambodia

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivia:

Dith Pran, the New York Times stringer who was the subject of the film The Killing Fields (1984), worked with the crew as a translator.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Lord Jim's lone crew member deserts him on the river, Jim chooses to carry on alone. Before he starts to row, the boat begins moving.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Desperation (2006) (TV)

Good Peter O'Toole performance in a great Joseph Conrad story

Moving story of an idealistic seaman forced to deal with his act of cowardice and how he ultimately redeems himself. The film has good action sequences and a moving love story. Performances by Eli Wallach and James Mason are colorful and solid, and there are plenty of Peter O'Toole's trademark "vacant stares". Daliah Lavi is gorgeous and her role more substantive than those of her other films. I love Peter O'Toole's films from this period (Lawrence of Arabia, What's New Pussycat?, Night of the Generals) and this one is as good as most of them. I looked for this film on DVD and finally had to tape it off of AMC (in the good old days before they saturated their programing with commercials). I'd like to see it restored and re-released.