Botany Bay

  • Adventure
  • Romance
  • Action
12/26/1952
93
NR

SAVAGE as the Great Continent They Invaded!

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.

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  • Geronimo1967

    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 (James Mason) and off they set on the eight month voyage to New South Wales. En route, it soon appears that Gilbert might have learned the arts of seamanship from Captain Bligh, so when the decent young Tallant falls in with the enigmatic Sally (Patricia Medina) he ends up earning the animosity of his host, and after a failed escape attempt is now a marked man. Even though he has a modicum of medical experience and the ship no surge...

    July 17, 2025

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