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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 .
Once Ladd finished Botany Bay in February 1952, it was announced Ladd's contract with Paramount would end early and be amended, so that he would make two more movies for the studio, at a later date. [76] (In the end, Ladd did not make another film at Paramount until The Carpetbaggers.) Paramount staggered the release of Ladd's final films for ...
They subsequently appeared together in 1951's The Lady and the Bandit, Lady in the Iron Mask, and Captain Pirate from 1952. Medina was often typecast in period melodramas such as The Black Knight . Two of her films were William Witney 's Stranger at My Door and Orson Welles ' Mr. Arkadin , based on episodes of the radio series The Adventures of ...
February 9, 1952: Sailor Beware: February 1952: ... Botany Bay: October 16, 1953: ... distribution only; produced by Lux Film, Producciones Ponti-de Laurentiis and ...
The following is a list of American films released in 1953.. Donald O'Connor and Fredric March cohosted the 26th Academy Awards ceremony on March 25, 1954, held at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood.
Noel Drayton (October 7, 1913 – December 7, 1981) was an actor who remains perhaps best known for playing supporting roles in Hollywood films like Elephant Walk, The Court Jester, Plymouth Adventure and Botany Bay during the 1950s.
James Norman Hall (22 April 1887 – 5 July 1951) was an American writer best known for The Bounty Trilogy, three historical novels he wrote with Charles Nordhoff: Mutiny on the Bounty (1932), Men Against the Sea (1934) and Pitcairn's Island (1934). [1]
The film, Harris's last work, was released posthumously in 2009. ... 1952 Botany Bay: Tom Oakley 1959 The Big Fisherman: Lysias 1959 Catch Me If You Can: Lindström