Life is strange and worrying for a cadet who arrives in the Pacific in the colonial service. And the testy resident commissioner, who had been expecting an experienced man, soon shows his disapproval.

• Shepperton Productions
• British Lion Films
• Denholm Elliott
• Susan Stephen
• Michael Hordern
• Felix Felton
• Peter Bathurst
• Clifford Buckton
• Gordon Jackson
• Inia Te Wiata