Victory

Translating the dark, moody prose of Joseph Conrad to the screen has never been easy. In this case, it was almost impossible. In 1919, Maurice Tourneur tried Conrad's story as a silent, then William Wellman attempted it again in 1932 as DANGEROUS PARADISE. This time, March is a man who has taken refuge on a small island in the Dutch East Indies. His father had always told him that his fellow man could not be trusted and March agrees, so he's entrenched himself far from anywhere. March visits a neighboring island and meets Field, a musician who is marooned. She is fending off the advances of the hotel keeper, and March takes her with him to his island. It isn't long...