of a growing suspicion that "a primitive and demoralising other" is present within the governing order of the day. Comics adaptations George Evans adapted the novel into a comic book in the 1950s. Film adaptations The book has twice been adapted into film: Lord Jim (1925), directed by Victor Fleming. Lord Jim (1965), directed by Richard Brooks and starring Peter O'Toole as Jim. The 1979 Hindi film Kaala Patthar has strong traces of Lord Jim. Allusions and references to Lord Jim in other works Jim's ill-fated ship, the Patna, is also mentioned in Jorge Luis Borges' short story "The Immortal", and Lord Jim himself is referenced in Borges' "The Other Death". The Disney motion picture, Spooner, used the story of Lord Jim as a shadow and point of comparison for the dilemmas faced by the movie's main character, Harry Spooner/Michael Norlan (played by Robert Urich). Lord Jim is referenced in the final section of Herman Wouk's 1951 novel The Caine Mutiny as the captain of the Caine struggles to come to terms with his own decision to abandon ship. Lord Jim is the name of a boat, and subsequently the nickname of the boat's owner, Richard Blake, in Penelope Fitzgerald's 1979 Booker Prize-winning novel Offshore. Lord Jim is referenced in the song "Conrad" by English singer-songwriter Ben Howard: "You were the boat that bridged / In the tale of Conrad / We will never be the change / To the weather and the sea and you knew that." In the Mexican film Amor Libre, directed by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, the lead characters July (Alma Muriel) and Julia (Julissa) are reading the book. July read the first half, and Julie the second. In the French film Volontaire by Hélène Fillières (2018), the figure of Laure Baer (played by Diane Rouxel) finds the book in her superior's desk and reads it. Polish composer Romuald Twardowski wrote an opera of the story in 1973. References External links Digital editions (plain text and HTML) Lord Jim, available at Internet Archive (scanned original edition books) Commentary "Stephen Crane as a Source for Conrad's Jim", Nina Galen, Nineteenth-Century Fiction, vol. 38, no. 1 (1983). Lord Jim, from SparkNotes Lord Jim, from GradeSaver Lord Jim, by Richard Curle, in Joseph Conrad: a study (1914). R.R. Reno, "Joseph Conrad's Play of Light and Shadow", Azure, Spring 2011. 1900 British novels Novels by Joseph Conrad Modernist novels Psychological novels