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Outcast of the Islands (Original title)
Dates: 1951 (Copyright), 25 February 1952 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Carol Reed

Synopsis: A shiftless man is befriended by a trader, but betrays him out of desire for a chieftan's daughter by showing a secret channel to a rival Arab. His treachery leads him to be abandoned by everyone.

Genre:
Period drama

Subject:
Deceit
Releases
Date: 25 February 1952Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 102 mins Length: 9225 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: February 2019Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 102 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer

Credits (36)
©: British Lion Film Corporation Limited, Produced in association with: British Lion Film Corporation, Presents: London Film Productions, Executive Producer: Alexander Korda, Produced by: Carol Reed, Associate Producer: Hugh Perceval, Production Manager: G. Leigh-Aman, Assistant Director: Guy Hamilton, Script Supervisor: Pamela Davies, Continuity: Pamela Davies, Screenplay by: W.E.C. Fairchild, [Based on the original novel] By: Joseph Conrad, Photography by: John Wilcox, [Photography] In association with: Edward Scaife, Camera Operator: Fred Francis, Camera Operator: Ted Moore, Camera Assistant: Gerry Fisher, Special Effects: Percy Day, Editor: Bert Bates, Assembly Cutter: Bert Rule, George Fisher, Assistant Art Director: John Hawkesworth, Sets Designed by: Vincent Korda, Wardrobe: Ivy Baker, Makeup: George Frost, Urban Hutchinson, Hairdressing: Gordon Bond, Hair: Eileen Bates, Music Composed and Conducted by: Brian Easdale, [Music] Played by: The Philharmonia Orchestra, Sound Supervisor: John Cox, Sound Recording: Bert Ross, Sound Recording: Red Law, Sound System: Western Electric Recording, Produced at the: British Lion Studio
Cast (19)
Ralph Richardson (Captain Lingard), Trevor Howard (Peter Willems), Robert Morley (Almayer), Wendy Hiller (Mrs Almayer), George Coulouris (Babalatchi), Wilfrid Hyde White (Vinck), Frederick Valk (Hudig), Betty Ann Davies (Mrs Williams), Kerima (Aissa), T. Ranjana, K. Gurunanse (dancing by), Tamine (Tamine), Peter Illing (Alagappan), A.V. Bramble (Badavi), Marne Maitland (ship's mate), James Kenney (Ramsey), Annabel Morley (Nina Almayer), Dharma Emmanuel (Ali), Jacquie Wallis