Lord Jim

Film adaptations

The book has twice been adapted into film:

  • Lord Jim (1925), directed by Victor Fleming.
  • Lord Jim (1965), directed by Richard Brooks and starring Peter O'Toole as Jim.

The 1979 Hindi film Kaala Patthar has strong traces of Lord Jim, with Amitabh Bachchan playing the role of an ex-Merchant Navy captain who struggles to overcome his guilt of having abandoned a ship and risked the lives of passengers, and turns into a coal-mine worker.


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