23/11/2024
James Brooke was also the model for the hero of Joseph Conrad’s classic ‘Lord Jim’ and mentioned in Rudyard Kipling’s short story, ‘The Man Who Would be King.’ Both these stories were made into very successful movies.
IN popular culture, especially in the world of written words and moving pictures, the name James Brooke is worth its weight in gold. In 1936, swashbuckling Hollywood actor Errol Flynn had intended to star in a film on Brooke’s life called ‘The White Rajah’ for Warner Brothers, which was based ...
