Lord Jim (Columbia Pictures) (1965)

Mat 2D; Still No. 4849 Peter O'Toole as Lord Jim and Daliah Lavi as "The Girl", in a romantic scene from "Lord Jim,"' a film by Richard Brooks based on the Joseph Conrad novel and released by Columbia Pictures. Also starred in the Southeast Asia adventure, in Super Panavision and Technicolor, are James Mason, Curt Jurgens, Eli Wallach, Jack Hawkins, Paul Lukas and Akim Tamiroff. CURT JURGENS Curt Jurgens in real life, and usually on the screen, is an elegant cosmopolitan, quite the opposite of the seedy-looking, grubby, bare-ankled character he plays in ’Lord Jim,” a film by Richard Brooks in Super Panavision and Technicolor for Columbia release and now playing at the Theatre with Peter O’Toole in the title role. A top international star since he went to Hollywood in 1957 to play in “The Enemy Below,” Jurgens is now a wealthy man who can afford the leisurely life, but just can’t seem to find the time. “It’s been a compulsion that I make three or four films a year, and play in the theatre. My wife, Simone, is extremely patient and follows me around the world packing and unpacking suitcases. I’ve promised that we shall stay put more often.” But then another role comes along before he has a chance to rest and it’s off to some other part of the world. Such was the case with Cornelius, the role of a sniveling coward in “Lord Jim.” “This is the sort of character part I wanted to play a few years ago, when I decided it was time to accept middle age gracefully. Instead I got Brigitte Bardot as a leading lady, and my fan mail soared,” explained Jurgens. Wherever he goes, Hong Kong, Cambodia or London, his friends are in the world of diplomacy or big business, rather than members of the show business crowd. But in spite of the international gloss, Jurgens is a highly skilled professional actor who more than holds his own with O’Toole and his “Lord Jim” co-stars—James Mason, Eli Wallach, Jack Hawkins, Paul Lukas, Akim Tamiroff and Daliah Lavi. HAPPY NEW YEAR! Thousands of curious Chinese turned out one day during Hong Kong location filming to watch writer-director Richard Brooks re-stage the Chinese New Year ceremony of the Dance of the Dragon in a picturesque local market street for his new film, “Lord Jim,” which stars Peter O’Toole in the title role. The Columbia release, in Super Panavision and Technicolor, is NOWeab Une esa eke Theatre. The Hong Kong spectators were motivated by historical curiosity more than anything else. The gay, colorful Chinese New Year ceremony, with its attendant percussion band and exploding firecrackers, is a familiar attraction in Chinese communities in the West. But among Chinese in the East, it is regarded as out-of-date, a very oldfashioned custom, indeed. When Brooks accurately restaged the ritual for an atmospheric sequence in “Lord Jim,” many of the young Chinese present saw the ceremony for the very first time. Page 18 THE MUSIC Academy Award-winning composer Bronislau Kaper is responsible for the score for “Lord Jim,” a film by Richard Brooks now at the ....... Theatre with Peter O’Toole in the title role. Kaper, who won an Oscar in 1953 for the score of “Lili,” has composed the music for many films, including “Gaslight,” “Green Dolphin Street,” “The Forsythe Saga” and “Auntie Mame.” His most recent score was for “Mutiny on the Bounty.” Brooks directed from his own screenplay, based on the Joseph Conrad novel. “Lord Jim” was filmed in Super Panavision and Technicolor for Columbia Pictures release. AKIM TAMIROFF “It used to be ‘Join the Navy and See the World.’ Now it’s ‘Join the Film Business and See the World’.” So says veteran character actor Akim Tamiroff who is costarred in “Lord Jim,” a film by Richard Brooks in Super Panavision and Technicolor, released by Columbia Pictures and starring Peter O’Toole in the title role at the Theatre. Tamiroft’s professional travels in the twelve months prior to the shooting of “Lord Jim” took him to Spain, for a film with Alain Delon and additional shooting on Orson Welles’ film version of “Don Quixote”; to Paris for an off-beat part in a nouvelle vogue drama; and to New York and Hollywood for filmed television plays. For “Lord Jim,” Richard Brooks’ large-scale film adaptation of the famed Joseph Conrad novel, Akim Tamiroff found himself headed for Hong Kong and Cambodia, Although he is a great Hollywood fan and a tremendous admirer of California living, Tamiroff believes the changes in the film industry are for the best. “When I first worked in Hollywood, if a director wanted to shoot on location he went to the Studio Location Department and said, ‘I need a jungle paradise on a river bank.’ He was then told ‘Walk ten miles down Sunset Boulevard and turn left. You’ll find a vacant lot there where we once planted two palm trees. You can fake it there.’ “Nowadays things are entirely different. Richard Brooks, who wrote and directed ‘Lord Jim,’ made five separate trips to the Far East in search of locations. He spent five months travelling in South-East Asia before h2 decided where he wanted to make his picture. The point is that this film looks and smells and sounds like the Far East, where the story is actually set. That’s the way to make movies.” Tamiroff stars in “Lord Jim” with O’Toole, James Mason, Curt Jurgens, Eli Wallach, Jack Hawkins, Paul Lukas and _ lovely Daliah Lavi as “The Girl.” PETER O'TOOLE Peter O’Toole, who refuses the use of a stunt man to double for him during filming of dangerous action sequences, usually collects a number of injuries while making a movie. During the making of “Lawrence of Arabia,” O’Toole sustained numerous cuts and bruises, a shattered collarbone and a wrenched back when he fell from charging camels on two separate occasions. However, O’Toole managed to survive the hazards of filming “Lord Jim” a film by Richard Brooks for Columbia Pictures release now playing at the ...... Theatre in Super Panavision and Technicolor, On location in Hong Kong and Cambodia he came through without a scratch while engaging in such derring-do as taking a onehanded ride on a freight sling at the end of a giant crane during a speedy trip from the cargo hold of a huge trading vessel to the deck of a Chinese junk; single-handedly battling a fire aboard a 20-foot dinghy with a barrel of beer; making a flying dive into the snake-infested Kampot River in Cambodia from the bow of a wooden barge seconds before its cargo of gunpowder exploded. Peter O’Toole was born in Connemara, County Galway, and Mat IC; Still No. 2895 Peter O'Toole as Lord Jim and Daliah Lavi as "The Girl" are shown above in a dramatic scene from "Lord Jim," a film by Richard Brooks. Based on the Joseph Conrad novel, a Columbia Pictures release in Super Panavision and Technicolor, ''Lord Jim" also stars James Mason, Curt Jurgens, Eli Wallach, Jack Hawkins, Paul Lukas and Akim Tamiroff. educated at schools in Ireland and the north of England. He had a brief fling as a journalist in Leeds before enrolling at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. He got his first professional experience with the Bristol Old Vic, where he played 73 different roles — ranging from Jimmy Porter in “Look Back in Anger” to “Hamlet’”—in three and half years. O’Toole made his London stage debut in a musical “Oh Mein Papa,” and spent the rest of that same year touring England in “The Holiday” with a young Welsh actress, Sian Phillips, whom he later married. O’Toole’s second London play, “The Long and the Short and the Tall,’ earned him a “Best Actor of the Year” award and the Paris Festival Award. He turned down the film offers that followed, to work at the Stratford-on-Avon Memorial Theatre. It was at this point in his fastrising career that O’Toole devoted more than a year to filming “Lawrence of Arabia” in the remote deserts of Jordan. Written for the screen and directed by Richard Brooks, “Lord Jim” is based on the novel by Joseph Conrad. Starred with O’Toole are James Mason, Curt Jurgens, Eli Wallach, Jack Hawkins, Paul Lukas, Akim Tamiroff and lovely Daliah Lavi as “The Girl.” The film is a ColumbiaKeep Films co-production. JOSEPH CONRAD The writers of original story material for motion pictures are rarely referred to in any publicity which emanates from a studio. Not so in the case of Joseph Conrad, whose most famous novel, “Lord Jim,” has been made into a film by Richard Brooks for Columbia Pictures release. Peter O’Toole stars as Lord Jim, in Super Panavision and Technicolorsat they .o2 63. «4 Theatre. With 27 other worldfamous novels, translated into 24 languages, Joseph Conrad cannot easily be relegated to the limbo of oblivion. Conrad’s life was almost as dramatic and exciting as what he wrote into his books. What is especially extraordinary about this very special man is that he was born Teodor Jozef Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski of a Polish family in the Ukraine. And this man, who had not spoken a word of English before he was 21, became one of the world’s most distinguished literary figures, read and enjoyed by millions. For “Lord Jim,” which stars O’Toole, James Mason, Curt Jurgens, Eli Wallach, Jack Hawkins, Paul Lukas, Akim Tamiroff and Daliah Lavi as “The Girl,” Richard Brooks wrote the screenplay and directed the film with consummate skill and fidelity to Conrad’s original story. The players were equally devoted in their roles and appreciation of Conrad’s brilliant characterization of “Lord Jim,” the classic study of a man’s cowardice and search for atonement. At the age of thirty-one, Conrad came to London for a rest after fifteen years at sea—a long period of adventure, first as a seaman aboard clipper ships, later as first officer. Beginning at the age of fifteen, Conrad suffered hardship, shipwreck and other accidents sailing the Seven Seas from Marseilles to Singapore. Much of these years and experiences are in “Lord Jim.” He was as noted for his profound psychological insights as for the superb authenticity of his seafaring backgrounds. And this, too, is found in the telling of Lord Jim’s inner torment, his desperate attempt to redeem his lost honor. 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 Super Panavision and Technicolor. A Columbia 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 24 languages around the world. wou 0 0! @, Mat ID; Still No. 3161 Eli Wallach as a bearded jungle warlord and Curt Jurgens as a cowardly accomplice are among the stars of "Lord Jim," a film by Richard Brooks based on the Joseph Conrad novel. Peter O'Toole tops the cast of the Columbia release as Lord Jim, and others starred in Super Panavision and Technicolor are James Mason, Jack Hawkins, Paul Lukas, Akim Tamiroff and Daliah Lavi as "The Girl." JAMES MASON There’s a world of difference between designing a theatre and play-acting in one, How this led James Mason to stardom in more than 75 films, instead of working at a drawing board, is something which still puzzles Mason. The actor is currently starred in “Lord Jim,” a film by Richard Brooks now playing at the ..... Theatre. Peter O’Toole plays the title role in the Columbia Pictures release, in Super Panavision and Technicolor. At Cambridge University, Mason’s interest in the ‘theatre’ was perfunctory, if not altogether nil. His first love was architecture, and he was the recipient of two university degrees in that highly regarded profession. To this day, Mason simply cannot explain whatever possessed him to answer an ad in a theatrical trade paper—which he found in a barber shop—for a young actor to join the cast of a touring melodrama. To his surprise, and a little disconcerted by his audacity, he got the job. Now one of the top international stars in every medium of the entertainment world, Mason has the enviable ability to play romantic leads, ‘heavies’ and ‘character’ roles — whatever interests him. In “Lord Jim,” Mason plays the key role of a 19th century buccaneer in Southeast Asia named Gentleman Brown. What with a heavy beard, which is almost a disguise, and a battered derby as part of his dilapidated wardrobe, Mason is hardly recognizable—until you hear the vibrancy and the eloquence of the now-famous Mason voice. Mat 2C; Still No. 2170 Peter O'Toole as Lord Jim battles jungle raiders in the new Columbia Pictures release, "Lord Jim," a film by Richard Brooks based on the Joseph Conrad novel. In Super Panavision and Technicolor, the screen drama also stars James Mason, Curt Jurgens, Eli Wallach, Jack Hawkins, Paul Lukas and Akim Tamiroff.