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 OToole as associate producers, from a screenplay by Brooks. The film stars OToole, James Mason, Curt Jrgens, Eli Wallach, Jack Hawkins, Paul Lukas and Daliah Lavi.
Jim Peter OToole is a promising young English merchant seaman who rises to first officer under Captain Marlow Jack Hawkins. However, Jim is injured and left at Java. When he is fit again, he signs on with the first available ship, a dilapidated freighter called the S.S. Patna, crammed with hundreds of Muslims on pilgrimage to Mecca. When a storm threatens the leaking ship, the crew panics and takes to the lifeboats without a thought for their passengers Jim in a moment of weakness joins them.When they reach port, the sailors are stunned to find an intact Patna already there before them. The rest of the crew disappears, but Jim insists on confessing his guilt at an official enquiry and is stripped of his sailing papers. Filled with selfloathing, Jim becomes a drifter. ........
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