Botany Bay
"SAVAGE as the Great Continent They Invaded!"
AdventureRomanceAction
Based on the story of the start of Australia's colonisation. An American medical student is falsely convicted of robbery, with his sentence involving the torturous voyage with other prisoners to the new penal colony at Botany Bay. Because of his attempt to escape, evil Captain Gilbert decides to return him to England on charges of mutiny.
🎬 DirectorJohn Farrow
📅 Release1952-12-26
🌍 CountryUnited States of America
🗣 LanguageEnglish
🏢 StudioParamount Pictures
🗳 Votes23
🎭 Cast
Alan Ladd
Hugh Tallant
James Mason
Capt. Paul Gilbert
Patricia Medina
Sally Munroe
Cedric Hardwicke
Gov. Phillip
Murray Matheson
Rev. Mortimer Thynne
Anita Sharp-Bolster
Moll Cudlip (as Anita Bolster)
Jonathan Harris
Tom Oakly
Hugh Pryse
Ned Inching
Dorothy Patten
Mrs. Nellie Garth
John Hardy
Nat Garth
Malcolm Lee Beggs
Nick Sabb
Alec Harford
Brig-keeper Jenkins
Noel Drayton
Second Mate Spencer
Brandon Toomey
Guard (as Brendan Toomey)
Ben Wright
Deck Officer Green
🎥 Crew
DirectorJohn Farrow
ScreenplayJonathan Latimer
NovelCharles Nordhoff
NovelJames Norman Hall
ProducerJoseph Sistrom
Original Music ComposerFranz Waxman
Director of PhotographyJohn F. Seitz
EditorAlma Macrorie
Art DirectionJ. McMillan Johnson
Art DirectionHal Pereira
🖼 Gallery
🏷 Keywords
australiashipmutinybased on novel or bookconvict18th centuryhigh seas
💬 Reviews
Following the death of his parents from the plague, American “Tallant” (Alan Ladd) came back to the mother country only to get embroiled with a crooked inheritance agent and find himself found guilty of stealing his own cash! Transportation was the order of the day, so he is imprisoned in the ship of “Capt. Gilbert” (James Mason) and off they set on the eight month voyage to New South Wale…
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