, 1h46 Directed byDouglas Sirk GenresDrama, Melodrama ThemesSeafaring films, Prison films, Transport films ActorsZarah Leander, Willy Birgel, Viktor Staal, Carola Höhn, Jakob Tiedtke, Robert Dorsay Roles Bobby Wells Rating66% Gloria Vane, a singer in Victorian London, takes the blame for her aristocratic lover Sir Albert Finsbury's forging of cheques. She is sentenced to be transported to Australia. Sir Albert then refuses to marry her, which would have allowed her to be released from prison, because he has made a more important strategic match with Mary Jones, the daughter of the Governor of Sydney. Eventually Gloria marries a local farmer Henry Hoyer and goes to settle in rural Australia with him. Filled with remorse, Sir Albert shoots himself.