The Little Convict

The Little Convict is a 1979 Australian film directed by Yoram Gross based on an original story by Gross.

We then travel back in time to a British convict ship, the Northern Star, as it sails towards a tiny colony on Sydney Cove with sixtyfour convicts on board. Six of these convicts are a young boy named Toby Nelson, his older sister Polly, Big George Tomkins, a blacksmith, Jake Dipper Davey, a professional pickpocket who had only been nabbed when he became old and slow, William Watts, a village idiot who was on board for stealing a pig from a farmer he had been caught when he tried to sell the same pig to the same farmer on the same day, an action that led to him being nicknamed Silly Billy after his trial and Jack Doolan, a highwayman who had used some money he had robbed to buy bread and cheese, which he was passing around to a group of hungry people when the constabulary found him. Jack had given Toby the reins of his horse and Polly some of the bread and cheese, which led to them being charged as two of the Doolan gang.After a journey of eight months, the Northern Star sails through the headlands into the harbour on whose shores the colony is built. The convicts are greeted by the Lieutenant Governor, Colonel Lindsay Lightfoot, left in charge of the colony while the Governor is inspecting Norfolk Island. He reads out the rules of the colony and warns the convicts of the consequences of disobedience of orders. Toby and Polly see each other for the first time since the ship left England women convicts had been kept in a separate area but their reunion is cut short by a tall officer, Sergeant Bully Langden. ........

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