Botany Bay (1952)
SAVAGE as the Great Continent They Invaded!
93 min
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.
- Release date
- December 26, 1952
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Alan Ladd as Hugh Tallant
- James Mason as Capt. Paul Gilbert
- Patricia Medina as Sally Munroe
- Cedric Hardwicke as Gov. Phillips
- Murray Matheson as Rev. Mortimer Thynne
- Dorothy Patten as Mrs. Nellie Garth
- John Hardy as Nat Garth
- Hugh Pryse as Ned Inching
- Malcolm Lee Beggs as Nick Sabb
- Anita Sharp-Bolster as Moll Cudlip
Crew
- John Farrow · Director
- Jonathan Latimer · Writer
- Charles Nordhoff · Writer
- James Norman Hall · Writer
- Joseph Sistrom · Producer
- Franz Waxman · Composer
- John F. Seitz · Cinematographer
- Alma Macrorie · Editor