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
John Hardy
Nat Garth
Malcolm Lee Beggs
Nick Sabb
Alec Harford
Brig-keeper Jenkins
Noel Drayton
Second Mate Spencer
Brandon Toomey
Guard (as Brendan Toomey)
Ben Wright
Deck Officer Green
Patrick Whyte
Guard
Crew
John Farrow
Director
Jonathan Latimer
Screenplay
James Norman Hall
Novel
Charles Nordhoff
Novel
Alma Macrorie
Editor
John F. Seitz
Director of Photography
Joseph Sistrom
Producer
Yvonne Wood
Costume Design
Wally Westmore
Makeup Supervisor
Hugo Grenzbach
Sound Recordist
John Cope
Sound Recordist
Franz Waxman
Original Music Composer
Sam Comer
Set Decoration
Ross Dowd
Set Decoration
Hal Pereira
Art Direction
J. McMillan Johnson
Art Direction
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