Botany Bay (film)
Botany Bay is a 1953 American adventure film directed by John Farrow and starring Alan Ladd, James Mason and Patricia Medina. It was based on a novel of the same name by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall.
| Botany Bay | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | John Farrow |
| Written by | Jonathan Latimer |
| Based on | novel by Charles Nordhoff James Norman Hall |
| Produced by | Joseph Sistrom |
| Starring | Alan Ladd James Mason Patricia Medina |
| Cinematography | John F. Seitz |
| Edited by | Alma Macrorie |
| Music by | Franz Waxman |
| Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | Paramount Pictures |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1.9 million (US) |
While the story includes characters loosely based on real figures (Gilbert and Phillips) and the ship Charlotte, it is a largely fictional telling of the First Fleet's arrival in Australia in 1788.
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