Rotten
Brooks, while capturing the spirit of adventure of the novel, only superficially catches the inner emotional and spiritual conflict of its hero.
Variety Staff, Variety
Lord Jim
Lord Jim blasts the screen with breathless adventure!
1965 · 2h 34m · Not Rated
Adventure, Drama
Directed by
Richard Brooks
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Lord Jim
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After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2000.
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Rotten
Something bewildering has happened in Richard Brooks's making of it, and it misses at being either Conrad or sheer entertainment cinema.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Rotten
Joseph Conrad's elaborately structured fiction poses monstrous problems for film adaptation, and the solution proposed here by Richard Brooks -- plodding literal-mindedness -- doesn't come close to working.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Brooks' adaptation of Conrad's novel is immeasurably better than its reputation.
Time Out
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