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.
| Directing | Carol Reed | Director |
| Writing | Joseph Conrad | Novel |
| Production | Carol Reed | Producer |
| Writing | William Fairchild | Writer |
| Sound | Brian Easdale | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Edward Scaife | Director of Photography |
| Camera | John Wilcox | Director of Photography |
| Art | Vincent Korda | Production Design |
| Production | Hugh Perceval | Associate Producer |
| Editing | Bert Bates | Editor |
