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Original film poster by Howard Terpning
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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
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Running time
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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.