Botany Bay
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監督: John Farrow
脚本: James Norman Hall / Jonathan Latimer / Charles Nordhoff
音楽: Franz Waxman
制作: Joseph Sistrom
撮影監督: John F. Seitz
制作会社: Paramount Pictures
No synopsis available.
AIが作品の魅力を深く読み解いています
監督: John Farrow
脚本: James Norman Hall / Jonathan Latimer / Charles Nordhoff
音楽: Franz Waxman
制作: Joseph Sistrom
撮影監督: John F. Seitz
制作会社: Paramount Pictures
Following the death of his parents from the plague, American “Tallant” (Alan Ladd) came back to the mother country only to get embroiled with a crooked inheritance agent and find himself found guilty of stealing his own cash! Transportation was the order of the day, so he is imprisoned in the ship of “Capt. Gilbert” (James Mason) and off they set on the eight month voyage to New South Wales. En route, it soon appears that “Gilbert” might have learned the arts of seamanship from Captain Bligh, so when the decent young “Tallant” falls in with the enigmatic “Sally” (Patricia Medina) he ends up earning the animosity of his host, and after a failed escape attempt is now a marked man. Even though he has a modicum of medical experience and the ship no surgeon, what chance he will make it half way around the world to put his case to the Governor (Sir Cedric Hardwicke)? Mason is on quite decent form as the menacingly jealous officer and Medina does well with a slightly demonic look in her eye but Ladd, he’s as wooden as the mizen mast. He has the all-American football player looks, all right, but as an actor he has all the screen presence of a dead chipmunk. It’s a predictably episodic adventure but whilst all are at sea it’s quite good fun before an ending that is all a bit disappointingly rushed and which I felt rather let it all down. Still, there’s plenty going on, even a keel-hauling, and plenty of folks get clunked on the head or shot or drowned, so it is worth a watch.
