Botany Bay

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.

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

N/A

John Hardy

Nat Garth

N/A

Malcolm Lee Beggs

Nick Sabb

N/A

Alec Harford

Brig-keeper Jenkins