Victory is a 1940 American adventure film directed by John Cromwell and starring Fredric March, Cedric Hardwicke and Betty Field.

Hendrik Heyst is an intellectual British recluse who has vowed to close himself off from the world and now lives alone on an island in the Dutch East Indies.

[3] In July 1939, it was reported that Marc Connelly was writing a script for a film to be produced by William Le Baron and possibly starring John Howard.

[13] In its review of Victory, Variety wrote: "This film version of Joseph Conrad's novel impresses with several strongly individual performances rather than with the basic movement of the story itself.

"[14] In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Bosley Crowther wrote: "[Victory] lacks most of the opaque and brooding philosophy of the original, shears away at least half of the novel's meandering contents, avoids the tragic ending which Conrad so grimly contrived and boils down in essence to a slow and sultry melodrama of love and villainy in the South Seas.

"[17] John Mosher of The New Yorker called the film "definitely expert, with a proper allotment of excitement and atmosphere," although he found the later scenes "too bald" in their simplification of the novel.