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Lord Jim premiered in London on 15 February 1965.

The second screen adaptation of Joseph Conrad's 1900 novel (after Victor Fleming's 1925 silent film), directed, produced and written by Richard Brooks (he had secured the rights to the novel in 1957), Peter O'Toole was cast in the title role. Location shooting included 3 months in Cambodia, where 21-year-old Dith Pran worked as a translator for cast and crew (Pran survived the Cambodian genocide in the late 1970s and was the subject of the 1984 film The Killing Fields).

In 1975, after the fall of Cambodia to the Khmer Rouge, Cambodian national Dith Pran, translator and journalistic partner of New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg, was plunged into the terror of Pol Pot’s oppressive and brutal prison camps. The Killing Fields (1984), the first major western film to confront the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian genocide, dramatizes Pran’s…