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.
Alan Ladd
as Hugh Tallant
James Mason
as Capt. Paul Gilbert
Patricia Medina
as Sally Munroe
Cedric Hardwicke
as Gov. Phillip
Murray Matheson
as Rev. Mortimer Thynne
Anita Sharp-Bolster
as Moll Cudlip (as Anita Bolster)
Jonathan Harris
as Tom Oakly
Hugh Pryse
as Ned Inching
Dorothy Patten
as Mrs. Nellie Garth
John Hardy
as Nat Garth
Malcolm Lee Beggs
as Nick Sabb
Alec Harford
as Brig-keeper Jenkins
