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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).

Lord Jim received negative reviews and failed to find an audience at the box office. O'Toole's performance was particularly criticized (Variety said it was "self-indulgent and lacking in real depth").

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'The Killing Fields' – surviving the Khmer Rouge on Netflix

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…

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Dith Pran (September 27, 1942 – March 30,2008)

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The Killing Fields (1984) - trailer

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Dr. Haing S. Ngor as Dith Pran and Sam Waterston as Sydney Schanberg in The Killing Fields (1984) dir. Roland Joffé | “Imagine”

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The Killing Fields

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Dith Pran (September 27, 1942 - March 30, 2008)

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Dr. Haing S. Ngor as Dith Pran and Sam Waterston as Sydney Schanberg in The Killing Fields (1984) dir. Roland Joffé