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Lord Jim (1965 film)

Lord Jim
Lord Jim poster.jpg
Directed by Richard Brooks
Produced by Richard Brooks
Written by Richard Brooks
Screenplay by Richard Brooks
Based on Lord Jim
1900 novel
by Joseph Conrad
Starring Peter O'Toole
James Mason
Curd Jürgens
Eli Wallach
Music by Bronisław Kaper
Cinematography Freddie Young
Edited by Alan Osbiston
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date
  • February 15, 1965 (1965-02-15)
(World Premiere, London. The Royal Film Performance)
Running time
154 minutes
Country United Kingdom
United States
Language English
Box office $5,000,000 (US/ Canada rentals)

Lord Jim is a 1965 Technicolor adventure film made by Columbia Pictures in Super Panavision. The picture was produced and directed by Richard Brooks with Jules Buck and Peter O'Toole as associate producers, from a screenplay by Brooks. The film stars O'Toole, James Mason, Curt Jürgens, Eli Wallach, Jack Hawkins, Paul Lukas and Daliah Lavi.

It is the second film adaptation of the 1900 novel of the same name by Joseph Conrad. The first was a silent film released in 1925 and directed by Victor Fleming.

The film received two BAFTA nominations, for best British art direction and best British cinematography.

The film had its world premiere on 15 February 1965 at the Odeon Leicester Square in the West End of London as the Royal Film Performance in the presence of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother; Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon and the Earl of Snowdon.


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