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6.1 / 10 1h 42min

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.

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Review by user652r5l34f0

Sporadically powerful adaptation of a Joseph Conrad novel, lacking clear focus on what sort of film it is really trying to be.

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Review by user726ndmup43t

Offbeat treatment of Joseph Conrad's story has greatness

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Review by user978rn4st8vy

Great individual moments and serious flaws result in an interesting misfire

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Review by user982n2vp8xcl

Interesting film, though I was somewhat disappointed

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Review by SunflowerSphinx

I wanted to like this one more than I did

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Review by MoonlitMole

The Best Film Version of a Joseph Conrad Novel

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Review by user821kx423e2l

Provoke? There is nothing in you to provoke.

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Review by user7617100hyun

Something special for my hundredth contribution

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Review by user932c2iibuuo

So it's not the Third Man, it's still a great movie

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Review by user7142y8sd001

Paging The Criterion Collection

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Review by user8577jaa39rf

A Perfect Film - Outcast of the Islands

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Review by user787jt1e1uhr

Powerful, but misses the point of the novel

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Review by user121rved6azy

A Carroll Reed Masterpiece and the Best Conrad Adaptation

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Review by user8060pzzfvb4

Outcast Of The Islands - Study of A Corrupt Soul

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Review by user186u33w5a9q

Interesting, well-acted, flawed, bonkers.

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Review by ElectricElk

For curiosity value only - and for fans of Trevor Howard.

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Review by user135h1et97zr

OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS (Carol Reed, 1951) ***1/2

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Review by user399hnqb901d

Minor Defects but still Absolutely Stunning!

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