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
Frederick Valk
as Hudig
A.V. Bramble
as Badavi
