Product Details

• Actors: Ralph Richardson, Trevor Howard, Robert Morley, Wendy Hiller, Kerima
• Directors: Carol Reed
• Writers: Joseph Conrad, William Fairchild
• Producers: Carol Reed, Hugh Perceval
• Format: PAL
• Language: English
• Number of tapes: 1
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B00004CKEI
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #36,717 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent adaptation, September 4, 2006

By	Bomojaz (South Central PA, USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

This superb adaptation of Joseph Conrad's novel by English director Carol Reed is faithful in spirit (and often but not always in content) to the original even though it lops of the last section of the book and has the anti-hero Willems (played by Trevor Howard) marrying (and being made miserable by) Aissa (played by Kerima), a native woman he has fallen hopelessly in love with; in the book, Aissa shoots and kills Willems. The movie is swiftly paced and the theme of Willems moral degradation as he pursues Aissa (he becomes the "outcast" of his race in the jungles of Malaysia) is well handled. The principal actors, which also include Robert Morley, Wendy Heller, and Ralph Richardson are all excellent, and the technical features of the film, especially the cinematography by Ted Scaife and John Wilcox, are exemplary. Many consider this the best movie version of any of Conrad's novels.