Outcast of the Islands

“Even Her Love Was Primitive!”

Peter Willems (Trevor Howard) is a clerk at an Eastern trading company who is caught in financial improprieties and runs from the disgrace and the charges. He talks Captain Tom Lingard (Ralph Richardson), the merchant captain who first gave him a start in life, into carrying him to a trading post on a remote Indonesian island. Carol Reed adapts Conrad's novel as a story about a man who keeps leaning on the kindness of others while giving them very little to lean on.