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Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 5014780383487 Format: PAL Number Of Discs: 1 Sales Rank: 24845 Theatrical Release Date: July 11, 1952
Rating: - Excellent adaptation
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 ... Read More
