Under Capricorn1949
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding, Margaret Leighton
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Rating: APPROVED
Runtime: 117 minutes
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Rating: APPROVED
Runtime: 117 minutes
Under Capricorn is a 1949 British historical thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock about a couple in Australia who started out as lady and stable boy in Ireland, and who are now bound together by a horrible secret. The film was based on the nov… more »
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In seventeen-hundred and seventy, Captain Cook discovered Australia. Sixty years later, the city of Sydney, the capital of New South Wales, had grown on the edge of three million square miles of unknown land. The colony exported raw materials. It imported material even more raw - prisoners, many of them unjustly convicted, who were to be shaped into the pioneers of a great dominion. In eighteen-hundred and thirty-one King William the Fourth sent a new governor to rule the colony. And now our story begins.
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