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Conrad's enchanted prisoner of the tropics is Willems (Trevor Howard), a weakling fired from his job in Macassar for stealing, who goes to live at a lonely trading post run by pompous Almayer (Robert Morley) and his wife (Wendy Hiller). Willems falls in love-temporarily but passionately-with...
The picture lops off the last fourth of the novel (which piled melodrama on melodrama, with Aissa shooting Willems), and some of Conrad's tropical thunder reaches the screen only as a muted rumble. But by making much of his movie on location in Borneo and Ceylon, Director Reed...
"The Passings Show of 1924" has nothing out of the ordinary to present. There are the usual sumptuous sets such as the Beaded Bag, King Arthur's Round Table, the Crown Finale, and the Porcelain Groups. There are the inevitable vaudeville acts of Jack Rose, and also Lulu McConnell, There...