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Lord Jim (1964)

Director: Richard Brooks

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Brooks' adaptation of Conrad's novel is immeasurably better than its reputation, and a scene towards the end - on a raft in the middle of a fog-bound river as O'Toole's Jim and Mason's Gentleman Brown discuss the age of the world and the price of evil - is an extraordinary attempt to convey Conradian metaphysics. 'Attempt', because Brooks is not entirely successful, with a major structural flaw (as in the novel itself) when the story ends two-thirds of the way through and has to start up again. Nevertheless, the film's pleasures far outweigh its inadequacies: Freddie Young's photography does for the Asian jungles what he did for the desert in Lawrence of Arabia, and the same might be said in praise of O'Toole's all-aquiver, neurotic performance.

Author: ATu 0000-00-00 00:00:00

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Cast & crew

Director: Richard Brooks

Producer: Richard Brooks

Cast: Peter O'Toole, Paul Lukas, Daliah Lavi, Eli Wallach, Curd Jürgens, James Mason, Akim Tamiroff, Jack Hawkins, Ichizo Itami, Jack MacGowran, Christian Marquand full cast

Genre(s): Epics

Duration: 154 mins


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