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The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce

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Drama based on the true story of a prisoner, Alexander Pearce, who escaped from a British penal colony in Australia. Having been sent down under for stealing shoes, he masterminds an escape into the Tasmanian wilderness with seven of his fellow inmates. However, with civilisation hundreds of miles away and no sources of food or shelter, their situation soon becomes desperate.