Botany Bay

Botany Bay (1952)

Adventure, Action, Romance1 hour and 33 minutes
65%
User score

SAVAGE as the Great Continent They Invaded!

Description

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
Jonathan Latimer
Screenplay
James Norman Hall
Novel
Charles Nordhoff
Novel

Actors

Alan Ladd
Alan Ladd
Hugh Tallant
James Mason
James Mason
Capt. Paul Gilbert
Patricia Medina
Patricia Medina
Sally Munroe
Cedric Hardwicke
Cedric Hardwicke
Gov. Phillip
Murray Matheson
Murray Matheson
Rev. Mortimer Thynne
Anita Sharp-Bolster
Anita Sharp-Bolster
Moll Cudlip (as Anita Bolster)
Jonathan Harris
Jonathan Harris
Tom Oakly
Hugh Pryse
Hugh Pryse
Ned Inching
Dorothy Patten
Dorothy Patten
Mrs. Nellie Garth
John Hardy
John Hardy
Nat Garth
Malcolm Lee Beggs
Malcolm Lee Beggs
Nick Sabb
Alec Harford
Alec Harford
Brig-keeper Jenkins
Noel Drayton
Noel Drayton
Second Mate Spencer
Brandon Toomey
Brandon Toomey
Guard (as Brendan Toomey)
Ben Wright
Ben Wright
Deck Officer Green
Patrick Whyte
Patrick Whyte
Guard
Status

Released

Original language

English

Budget

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Revenue

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Keywords
australiashipmutinybased on novel or bookconvict18th centuryhigh seas