Lord Jim (Columbia Pictures) (1965)

FAR EAST BEAUTY IN ‘LORD JIM’ innate earmeeeimmennemene ee ee ie Tee To make “Lord Jim,” a film by Richard Brooks starring Peter O’Toole in the title role at the Theatre, a company of more than 100 actors and technicians—many of them veterans of “Lawrence of Arabia”—spent nearly five months in the Far East. Location filming for the Columbia release in Super Panavision and Technicolor, began with two months of shooting along the bustling docks of Kowloon and the fishing village of Aberdeen on Hong Kong Island — waterfront areas which still evoke the atmosphere of the crowded, colorful Far Eastern ports Joseph Conrad called at during his days as a ship’s officer shortly before the turn of the century. Starred with O’Toole are James Mason, Curt Jurgens, Eli Wallach, Jack Hawkins, Paul Lukas, Akim Tamiroff and Daliah Lavi as ‘The Girl.” Filming at sea was done from writer-director Richard Brooks’ improvised floating film-making studio. a huge camera barge lashed between two launches, escorted by a squadron of police cutters, motorized Chinese junks (one of which was turned into a floating kitchen to provide hot lunches at sea for the film unit), four speedboats, a small coalburning steamer (seen in the film as Marlow’s ship, on which Jim gets his first training in the Mercantile Marine) and two 500ton freighters—a creaking preWorld War I ship called Kwang Ho which appears in the film as the infamous pilgrim ship S. S. Patna, aboard which O’Toole as Lord Jim discovers a flaw in himself, and a Panamanian cargo carrier called the Victory I from which Jim off-loads the shipment of gunpowder he eventually takes to Patusan, when he seeks a second chance. The barge carried the crew’s three large Super Panavision and Technicolor cameras, plus all the lighting and sound recording equpment. Makeup, wardrobe and hairdressing functioned on a catch-as-catch-can basis from the two larger launches. And the only escape from the hot sun during breaks between scenes was a running dive into the China Sea. The second location period, a three-month stint in Cambodia, began with two weeks of shooting at the seaside spa of Kep, along the Gulf of Siam coastline. Scenes shot here and at a river running through the nearby village of Kampot showed Jim’s first entry into Patusan, the lush jungle paradise of Joseph Conrad’s novel. As Academy-Award winning cinematographer Fred Young’s camera crew followed Jim’s small sailboat along the overgrown banks of the river, the natural wildlife of the Cambodian jungles volunteered for service in the film as unpaid extras. Multicolored parrots, flocks of flying geese and birds of all sizes and shapes filled the pastelblue skies. Families of elephants cavorted in the shallow water along the river banks to escape the midday heat while seemingly endless school of tiny flying fish skimmed the blue-green surface of the water. And, to the occasional dismay of the sound recorders, mobs of gibbering gibbons filled the 50-foot tall coconut and palm trees to welcome Jim to Patusan. The film unit, operating from a small camera raft, pushed upstream deep into the jungle each day and then drifted back downriver to their home base at Kep each evening amid the breathtaking beauty of a Cambodian sunset, watching the last red rays of the sun highlight the wild orchid trees while they sipped local beer that had been cooled all day in the net slung underneath the raft. The bulk of the Cambodian location shooting was done near Siem Reap, two hundred miles north of the capital city of Phnom Penh, amid the magnificent thousand-year-old Khmer ruins of the Angkor Wat. In the center of the Angkor Wat, a mile-square compound of temples and religious buildings separated from the thick jungle by a wide man-made moat, a primitive encampment for Buddhist novices had been re-designed and enlarged to represent the actual village of Patusan. Bamboo huts with thatched roofs rise on stilts above the still, lily-padded waters on the moat, against a background of intricately carved temples dating back to the days when the Khmers controlled a chunk of Asia that included all of present-day Cambodia, Cochin-China and Laos, most of Thailand and portions of Burma and Red China. Built during the 12th century by King Suryavarmen II (11131152), Angkor Wat represents the architectural and artistic zenith of the Khmer culture. Earlier Buddhist kings had built archetypal temples in other parts of the country, but the Angkor Wat, which has been renovated and restored by Georges and Bernard Groslier, a father-andson team of French archeologists, since its accidental discovery less than a hundred years ago, was built during a time when the Khmer artisans were moving from primitive mud-and-plaster construction methods to the use of sandstone, bricks and laterite, a type of millstone which forms the bedrock of Cambodia. Held together by a still-unidentified form of mortar, and, in some cases, by wooden shafts or invisible natural joints, the pillared galleries and vaulted arches and domes of the Angkor Wat and other temples show signs of lasting as long as the stone itself can stand up to the tropical Cambodian climate of alternating hot and monsoon seasons. Mat 2B; Still No. 3912 Rifle in hand, Peter O'Toole as Lord Jim watches while Daliah Lavi as "The Girl" prays to her jungle gods. It's a scene from "Lord Jim," a film by Richard Brooks based on the Joseph Conrad novel and released by Columbia Pictures. Also starred in Super Panavision and Technicolor are James Mason, Curt Jurgens, Eli Wallach, Jack Hawkins, Paul Lukas and Akim Tamiroff. OFFICIAL BILLING A FILM BY RICHARD BROOKS Peter O'TOOLE El WALLACH costosoa AKIM TAMIROFF ~:. Daliah LAVI «= :74+ i Based on the novel by JOSEPH CONRAD Written for the screen and Directed by RICHARD BROOKS Filmed in SUPER PANAVISION® A Columbia Pictures Release-Keep Films Co-Production LORD JIM James MASON Jack HAWKINS Music by BRONISLAU KAPER TECHNICOLOR® ADVANCE NOTICE “Lord Jim,” a film by Richard Brooks based on Joseph Conrad’s famous novel and released by Columbia in Super Panavision and Technicolor, opens ...... at the Theatre. The starstudded cast is headed by Peter O’Toole as Lord Jim, James Mason, Curt Jurgens, Eli Wallach, Jack Hawkins and Paul Lukas. Supporting co-stars are Akim Tamiroff and Daliah Lavi as “The Girl.” Written for the screen and directed by Richard Brooks, “Lord Jim” is the story of a young man’s desperate attempt to redeem his lost honor, set against the colorful and exciting tapestry of the Malay Archipelago at the turn of the century. ‘Lord Jim” was filmed in Hong Kong and Cambodia. TOGETHER IN ‘JIM’ “Lord Jim” a film by Richard Brooks, now at the ..... Theatre in Super Panavision and Technicolor, marks the second time that Jack Hawkins co-stars with Peter O’Toole who plays the title role. Hawkins portrayed General Allenby in the Academy Awardwinning “Lawrence of Arabia,” with O’Toole as Lawrence. A story of high courage and great adventure, Joseph Conrad’s “Lord Jim” has been a best-selling literary masterpiece for over sixty years. WORLD FAMOUS Peter O’Toole, who skyrocketed to international motion picture stardom on the strength of the unanimous critical acclaim for his portrayal of Lawrence in “Lawrence of Arabia,” now stars at the Theatre in “Lord Jim,” a film by Richard Brooks in Panavision and Technicolor. A Columbia Pictures release, “Lord Jim” is based on the novel by Joseph Conrad, one of the enduring works of literature. First serialized in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1899, “Lord Jim” has been translated into more than 24 languages around the world. REVIEW A magnificent motion picture, as rich in excitement and adventure as it is in meaningful screen characterizations, “Lord Jim,” a film by Richard Brooks, opened yesterday at the...... Theatre, in Super Panavision and Technicolor with Peter O’Toole in the title role. Based on the Joseph Conrad novel of a man’s search for a second chance, “Lord Jim” brilliantly explores not only the romance and beauty and terror of the sea and the land, but the poetry and the degradation possible to the human spirit. A Columbia Pictures release, “Lord Jim” happily belongs in the company of those few films which stand out, not alone in their year, but in their decade. The players, headed by O’Toole as Lord Jim, most fully deserve all possible honors for their individual and collective performances. They form an international star cast of brilliant reputation, made the more so by their contributions to this heroic story of a man’s desperate attempt to redeem his lost honor. In addition to O’Toole, there are James Mason, Curt Jurgens, Eli Wallach, Jack Hawkins, Paul Lukas, Akim Tamiroff and lovely Daliah Lavi as “The Girl.” “Lord Jim” was six years in preparation and almost a full year in filming, and Richard Brooks’ integrity and fidelity to Conrad’s memorable story, is in dramatic and pictorial evidence in every foot of his film. Set against the colorful and exciting tapestry of the Malay Archipelago at the turn of the century, “Lord Jim” is indeed a tale of colorful romance. Jim’s search for that second chance takes him from the sea deep into the unmapped jungles of the East, to Patusan, where his search for redemption comes full circle as the spectre of his former cowardice is resurrected and his courage is tried once again. “Lord Jim” is a compliment to all those who had anything to do with its making. Like “Bridge On The River Kwai” and “Lawrence of Arabia,” the one made in the jungles of Ceylon, the other shot on the remote sands of the Jordanian desert, “Lord Jim” will not easily be forgotten. Curt JURGENS 100% Paul LUKAS 100% 80% 25% 15% 35% 25% 25% 25% GENERAL ADVANCE lccnbriniamanstninetemmaniniies satin nina A story of high adventure, romance and excitement set against the colorful and exciting tapestry of the Malay Archipelago, at the turn of the century, “Lord Jim,” a film by Richard Brooks, reportedly belongs in the Same spectacular company as such screen entertainments as “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” and “Lawrence of Arabia.” The film opens..... at thes: Theatre in Super Panavision and Technicolor. “Lord Jim” is, according to those who have seen it, a magnificent picturization of the Joseph Conrad novel. Written and directed by Richard Brooks, and released by Columbia Pictures, “Lord Jim” stars Peter O’Toole in the title role, that of a man who searches for a second chance, James Mason, Curt Jurgens, Eli Wallach, Jack Hawkins, Paul Lukas, Akim Tamiroff and Daliah Lavi as “The Girl.” To film “Lord Jim,” a company of over 100 actors and technicians—many of them veterans of “Lawrence of Arabia” — spent nearly five months in the Far East. Location filming began with two months of shooting along the bustling docks of Kowloon and the fishing village of Aberdeen on Hong Kong Island —waterfront areas which still evoke the atmosphere of the crowded, colorful ports Joseph Conrad called at during his days as a ship’s officer shortly before the turn of the century. The second location period, a three-month stint in Cambodia, began with two weeks of shooting at the seaside spa of Kep, along the Gulf of Siam coastline. With only occasional interruptions from the less friendly inhabitants of the Cambodian jungles—king-sized scorpions and a wide variety of poisonous snakes —the “Lord Jim” unit finished location filming with a threeweek stint of night-time battle and Festival sequences. Written for the screen and directed by Richard Brooks, “Lord Jim” moves from the relentless sea deep into the unmapped jungles of the East, to Patusan, where a feudal warlord is terrorizing the native population. In Patusan, Jim’s search for redemption comes full circle. Page 17