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Outcast of the Islands

Even Her Love Was Primitive!

5.8(35)19511h 42m2

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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Status
Released
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Box office
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Language
English
  • indigenous
  • outcast
  • imperialism

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Director

Carol Reed

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United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNR11 Jul 1952
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical15 Nov 1951
  • SwedenSE

    • Theatrical1521 Jan 1952

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Outcast of the Islands was released on 15 November 1951.

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    CinemaSerf

    3/17/2025

    7/10

    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 hook up with the decent, maybe even naive, “Capt. Lingard” (Sir Ralph Richardson) who knows some shortcuts through the tr…

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