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Botany Bay

SAVAGE as the Great Continent They Invaded!

6.6(24)19521h 33m2

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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Status
Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
English
  • australia
  • ship
  • mutiny
  • based on novel or book
  • convict
  • 18th century
  • high seas

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Director

John Farrow

Produced in

United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNR7 Oct 1953
  • United KingdomGB

    • TheatricalLondon26 Dec 1952
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1226 Dec 1952

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Botany Bay was released on 26 December 1952.

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    CinemaSerf

    7/17/2025

    6/10

    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…

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