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Botany Bay

1952-1h 33min
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6.5 / 10 20

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.

Directed by John Farrow

Writers Jonathan Latimer Charles Nordhoff James Norman Hall

Stars Alan Ladd James Mason Patricia Medina

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Alan Ladd

Hugh Tallant
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James Mason

Capt. Paul Gilbert
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Patricia Medina

Sally Munroe
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Cedric Hardwicke

Gov. Phillip
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Murray Matheson

Rev. Mortimer Thynne
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Anita Sharp-Bolster

Moll Cudlip (as Anita Bolster)
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Jonathan Harris

Tom Oakly
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Hugh Pryse

Ned Inching
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Dorothy Patten

Mrs. Nellie Garth
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John Hardy

Nat Garth
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Malcolm Lee Beggs

Nick Sabb
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Alec Harford

Brig-keeper Jenkins

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