Outcast of the Islands

  • Drama
  • Adventure
11/15/1951
102
NR

Even Her Love Was Primitive!

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.

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  • Geronimo1967

    The plot here is a bit on the convoluted side, but is does allow Trevor Howard to remind us that he could play a nasty character just about as well as anyone. Hes been caught with his hand in the till and so is shunned by his bosses and his Far Eastern community. Fortunately, Willems manages to hook up with the decent, maybe even naive, Capt. Lingard (Sir Ralph Richardson) who knows some shortcuts through the treacherous seas and offers to take him somewhere remote where he can work with his agent Almayer (Robert Morley) and make a fresh start. Pretty swiftly, though, Willems takes to the bottle and also a bit of a shine to the deaf chiefs daughter Aissa (Kerima) and soon is embroiled in not just a conflict with this traditional community, ...

    March 17, 2025

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