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Botany Bay

(1952)

December 26, 1952 1h 33m
66%
TMDB Score

Overview

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.

John Farrow

Director

Top Billed Cast

AL

Alan Ladd

Hugh Tallant

JM

James Mason

Capt. Paul Gilbert

PM

Patricia Medina

Sally Munroe

CH

Cedric Hardwicke

Gov. Phillip

MM

Murray Matheson

Rev. Mortimer Thynne

AS

Anita Sharp-Bolster

Moll Cudlip (as Anita Bolster)

JH

Jonathan Harris

Tom Oakly

HP

Hugh Pryse

Ned Inching

DP

Dorothy Patten

Mrs. Nellie Garth

JH

John Hardy

Nat Garth

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