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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Cast

Trevor Howard

Peter Willems

Ralph Richardson

Captain Tom Lingard

Robert Morley

Elmer Almayer

Wendy Hiller

Mrs. Almayer

Kerima

Aissa

Wilfrid Hyde-White

Vinck

George Coulouris

Babalatchi

Peter Illing

Alagappan

Betty Ann Davies

Mrs. Williams

Frederick Valk

Hudig

Marne Maitland

Ships Mate

James Kenney

Ramsey