Botany Bay

Botany Bay (1952)

SAVAGE as the Great Continent They Invaded!

  • Genre: Adventure, Romance, Action
  • Release Date: 1952-12-26
  • User Rating: 6.5/10 from 19 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 33min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Paramount Pictures
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: John Farrow
star 6.5/10
From 19 Ratings

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Summary

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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  • Alan Ladd

    as Hugh Tallant
  • James Mason

    as Capt. Paul Gilbert
  • Patricia Medina

    as Sally Munroe
  • Cedric Hardwicke

    as Gov. Phillip
  • Murray Matheson

    as Rev. Mortimer Thynne
  • Anita Sharp-Bolster

    as Moll Cudlip (as Anita Bolster)
  • Jonathan Harris

    as Tom Oakly
  • Hugh Pryse

    as Ned Inching
  • Dorothy Patten

    as Mrs. Nellie Garth
  • John Hardy

    as Nat Garth
  • Malcolm Lee Beggs

    as Nick Sabb
  • Alec Harford

    as Brig-keeper Jenkins
  • Noel Drayton

    as Second Mate Spencer
  • Brandon Toomey

    as Guard (as Brendan Toomey)
  • Ben Wright

    as Deck Officer Green
  • Patrick Whyte

    as Guard
Writing James Norman Hall Novel
Writing Jonathan Latimer Screenplay
Directing John Farrow Director
Writing Charles Nordhoff Novel
Art Hal Pereira Art Direction
Camera John F. Seitz Director of Photography
Production Joseph Sistrom Producer
Art Sam Comer Set Decoration
Costume & Make-Up Yvonne Wood Costume Design
Art Ross Dowd Set Decoration
Art J. McMillan Johnson Art Direction
Sound Franz Waxman Original Music Composer
Editing Alma Macrorie Editor
Sound Hugo Grenzbach Sound Recordist
Sound John Cope Sound Recordist
Costume & Make-Up Wally Westmore Makeup Supervisor