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.

• DirectorCarol Reed
• Release15 November 1951
• Genre
  Drama / Adventure
• Duration1h 42m
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  5.774
  31 reviews
• Productions

  London Films Productions, United Artists