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Botany Bay

Botany Bay

6,6 /10 (24 Votes)
1952 EN 93 min

Overview

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.

Release date

26/12/1952

Votes

24

Popularity

1.0

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Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

93 min

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2025-07-17

⭐ 6

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 ea…

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