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Botany Bay

United States of America

NR
1952-12-26(US)
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Adventure,
Romance,
Action
▪ 1h-33m

66^%

User
Score

SAVAGE as the Great Continent They Invaded!

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.

James Norman HallNovel
Jonathan LatimerScreenplay
John FarrowDirector
Charles NordhoffNovel
Hal PereiraArt Direction
John F. SeitzDirector of Photography

Top Billed 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

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A review by CinemaSerf

6.0

Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-07-17

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” (J...

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