Lord Jim
After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself.
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"It is sometime in the late 19th century, and Jim is an up-and-coming merchant seaman. After rising through the ranks under Captain Marlowe, Jim is injured and stranded in Java. After recovering, he signs on with the first available ship: the SS Patna, bound for Mecca with hundreds of pilgrims. During a storm, the crew abandon it, thinking it will surely sink, and in a moment of weakness; Jim joins them. Back in port, they realise the ship was saved, and Jim's guilt impels him to turn himself in. After a public humiliation at an official inquiry, Jim becomes a drifter in the Asiatic waters..."
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The crew and cast were joined by Cambodian translator Dith Pran, who was a liaison between Cambodians and the filmmakers and stars. He left the country after the 1975 Communist takeover and his own imprisonment, and his story was told in The Killing Fields (1984).
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After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself.