Botany Bay Movie Review 1953

A rousing costumer about a convict ship in the 1700s that, after a trying voyage, lands in Australia, wherein a framed doctor conquers the local plague. From the novel by Charles Nordoff.

Distribution

Available on VHS
Running time 99 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Adventure Drama, Period Piece: 18th Century, Down Under, Doctors & Nurses, Men in Prison, Sail Away

Cast

Alan Ladd, James Mason, Patricia Medina, Cedric Hardwicke

Director

John Farrow

Producer

Paramount Pictures