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.

Trevor Howard
as Peter Willems

Ralph Richardson
as Captain Tom Lingard

Robert Morley
as Elmer Almayer

Wendy Hiller
as Mrs. Almayer

Kerima
as Aissa

Wilfrid Hyde-White
as Vinck

George Coulouris
as Babalatchi

Annabel Morley
as Nina Almayer

Peter Illing
as Alagappan

Betty Ann Davies
as Mrs. Williams
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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. He’s been caught with his hand in the till and so is shunned by his bosses and his Far Eastern community. Fortunately, “Willems” manages to h...