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
- John Hardy as Nat Garth