Bitter Springs (film)

Bitter Springs
British poster by Robert Medley
Directed byRalph Smart
Written byMonja Danischewsky
W. P. Lipscomb
Based onStory by Ralph Smart
Produced byMichael Balcon
Leslie Norman (assoc)
StarringTommy Trinder
Chips Rafferty
Gordon Jackson
CinematographyGeorge Heath
Edited byBernard Gribble
Music byRalph Vaughan Williams
Production
company
Distributed byGeneral Film Distributors
Release dates
  • 24 June 1950 (1950-06-24) (Australia)
  • 6 July 1950 (1950-07-06) (UK)
Running time
86 minutes
CountriesAustralia
United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£100,000
Box office£114,000

Bitter Springs is a 1950 AustralianBritish film directed by Ralph Smart and starring Tommy Trinder, Chips Rafferty and Gordon Jackson.

An Australian pioneer family leases a piece of land from the government in the Australian outback in 1900 and hires two inexperienced British men as drovers. Problems with local Aboriginal people arise over the possession of a waterhole.