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Botany Bay (1952)
Directed by John Farrow
“SAVAGE as the Great Continent They Invaded!”
Adventure, Romance, Action, Drama · 1h 33m
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.
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
J
John Hardy
Nat Garth
M
Malcolm Lee Beggs
Nick Sabb
A
Alec Harford
Brig-keeper Jenkins
Crew
- Director
- John Farrow
- Screenplay
- Jonathan Latimer
- Novel
- Charles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall
- Director of Photography
- John F. Seitz
- Original Music Composer
- Franz Waxman
- Editor
- Alma Macrorie
- Producer
- Joseph Sistrom
Details
- Release date
- 1952-12-26
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Adventure, Romance, Action, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Paramount Pictures