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For the Term of His Natural Life (1983)
Action & Adventure
Drama
Crime
In 1830s England, a young man from a good but troubled family is unjustly convicted of stealing a watch. He's transported to Van Diemen's Land where he suffers under the enmity of Lt. Frere while falling in love with Sylvia, the Warden's daughter. Meanwhile, back in England, an imposter lays claim to the young man's inheritance.
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Keywords
based on novel or book
mutiny
forced labour
australia
miniseries
wrongful imprisonment
convict
penal colony
literary adaptation
tasmania
disinheritance

































