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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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