Botany Bay
movie

SAVAGE as the Great Continent They Invaded!
Released December 26, 1952
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
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
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John Hardy
as
Nat Garth
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Malcolm Lee Beggs
as
Nick Sabb
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Alec Harford
as
Brig-keeper Jenkins
Crew

John Farrow
as
Director
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Jonathan Latimer
as
Screenplay
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James Norman Hall
as
Novel
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Charles Nordhoff
as
Novel
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Joseph Sistrom
as
Producer
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J. McMillan Johnson
as
Art Direction

John F. Seitz
as
Director of Photography

Franz Waxman
as
Original Music Composer
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Alma Macrorie
as
Editor
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Ross Dowd
as
Set Decoration

Sam Comer
as
Set Decoration
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Yvonne Wood
as
Costume Design