Synopsis
After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal charges. He persuades the man who gave him his start in life, the merchant ship captain Lingard, to bring him to a trading post on a remote Indonesian island where he can hide out.
Ratings
IMDb6.9/10
35 audience votes
Key crew
- Carol ReedDirector
- Brian EasdaleOriginal Music Composer
- William FairchildWriter
Cast
- Trevor HowardPeter Willems
- Ralph RichardsonCaptain Tom Lingard
- Robert MorleyElmer Almayer
- Wendy HillerMrs. Almayer
- KerimaAissa
- Wilfrid Hyde-WhiteVinck
- George CoulourisBabalatchi
- Annabel MorleyNina Almayer
- Peter IllingAlagappan
- Betty Ann DaviesMrs. Williams
- Frederick ValkHudig
- A.V. BrambleBadavi
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Themes
indigenousoutcastimperialism