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Bitter Springs is a film of genre Drama directed by Ralph Foster Smart with Chips Rafferty
Bitter Springs (1950)
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Add to a movie listBitter Springs is an Australian–British film directed by Ralph Smart and released in 1950. An Australian pioneer family buys a piece of land from the government in the Australian outback in 1900 and hire two inexperienced British men as drovers. Problems with local Aboriginal people arise over the possession of a waterhole.
Much of the film was shot on location in the Flinders Ranges in South Australia
Synopsis
In the early 1900s, Wally King travels 600 miles to outback South Australia to occupy land he has bought from the government. He is accompanied by his wife Ma, children Emma and John, and friends Tommy and Mac. Despite warnings from a local trooper, the bigoted King clashes with an Aboriginal tribe who depend on water located on what has become the family's property.Actors
Chips Rafferty
(Wally King)
Tommy Trinder
(Tommy)
Gordon Jackson
(Mac)
Michael Pate
(Trooper)
Bud Tingwell
(John King)
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