Outcast of the Islands

Outcast of the Islands

Even Her Love Was Primitive!

NR 1951 · 102 min · ★ 5.8 · Drama, Adventure

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.

Directed by Carol Reed · Written by William Fairchild

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