(1938) Based on a story by Somerset Maugham, this is the tale of a slovenly, drunken, womanizing Englishman (Charles Laughton) in the Dutch East Indies and the missionary (Elsa Lanchester, the real life Mrs. Laughton) who restores him to decency. Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Robert Newton, Tyrone Guthrie, Director: Erich Pommer.