Botany Bay

Botany Bay
  • Release date: 7 Oct 1953
  • Release year: 1952
  • Runtime: 93 minutes
  • Country: United States
  • Keywords: boy, prisoner, death, violence, brutality, bare chested man, mason and medina, farrow and ladd, medical student, ship
Plot:
In 1787 prisoners from London's Newgate Gaol are to be shipped to New South Wales. Hugh Tallant is an American medical student whom, we learn at sea, was falsely imprisoned. Because of his attempt to escape, evil Captain Gilbert decides to return him to England on charges of mutiny. Events, including arrival of plague, keep Tallant busy in New South Wales.
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