In 1787, American medical student Hugh Tallant and British convicts are sent from London to New South Wales on a ship commanded by the evil Captain Gilbert.In 1787, American medical student Hugh Tallant and British convicts are sent from London to New South Wales on a ship commanded by the evil Captain Gilbert.In 1787, American medical student Hugh Tallant and British convicts are sent from London to New South Wales on a ship commanded by the evil Captain Gilbert.
Cedric Hardwicke
- Gov. Phillips
- (as Sir Cedric Hardwicke)
Anita Sharp-Bolster
- Moll Cudlip
- (as Anita Bolster)
Brandon Toomey
- Guard
- (as Brendan Toomey)
Patrick Aherne
- Bo's'n's Mate
- (uncredited)
Barbara Bendle
- Prisoner
- (uncredited)
Margaret Brewster
- Old Woman Prisoner
- (uncredited)
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Capt. Paul Gilbert: [after sentencing Hugh Tallant to a 50-lash whipping] I don't want any danger of infection. Have you the salt ready for his wounds?
- ConnectionsFeatured in Never Fear Smith Is Here! (1994)
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Outdoor adventures don't belong inside a studio
A good premise: a gaggle of British convicts, male and female, are shipped to the new penal colony in Australia, circa 1780s. But while this story calls for great seascapes, Paramount gives us ship-in-a-soundstage scenes which are cramped and unconvincing. Even the later sequences in Australia have a "backlot" quality to them. Note the dark, sexually-ambiguous undertones in the performance of ship's captain, James Mason. Alan Ladd, who, like Burt Lancaster and Mel Gibson, liked to suffer in his movies, here gets to be flogged and later keelhauled. His flogging in "Two Years Before the Mast" is much more vivid but his keelhauling in "Botany Bay" marks the only time a Hollywood leading man has suffered this particular kind of punishment. Curiously, despite his penchant for "beefcake" scenes, Ladd remains fully clothed for this sequence. Perhaps the fear was that audiences would understandably expect a shirtless Ladd to suffer many cuts and abrasions on his bare torso while being scraped under the ship's keel, and Paramount didn't want to see its handsome leading man forced to look, even temporarily, disfigured or damaged.
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- dinky-4
- Apr 25, 1999
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- Das Schiff der Verurteilten
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- Gross US & Canada
- $1,900,000
- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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