---
title: 'Bitter Springs (1950)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Ralph Smart'
released: '1950-01-01'
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Western'
countries:
  - 'Australia'
  - 'United Kingdom'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/bitter-springs-1950'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042253/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Bitter Springs (1950)

1950 · Drama, Western · Australia, United Kingdom


## Synopsis

Bitter Springs is a 1950 Australian–British 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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Ralph Smart](https://cinepixo.com/people/ralph-smart)
- **Screenplay:** [Monja Danischewsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/monja-danischewsky)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Ralph Vaughan Williams](https://cinepixo.com/people/ralph-vaughan-williams)
- **Producer:** [Leslie Norman](https://cinepixo.com/people/leslie-norman), [Michael Balcon](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-balcon)
- **Director of Photography:** [George Heath](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-heath)

## Cast

- [Gordon Jackson](https://cinepixo.com/people/gordon-jackson)
- [Tommy Trinder](https://cinepixo.com/people/tommy-trinder)
- [Chips Rafferty](https://cinepixo.com/people/chips-rafferty)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/bitter-springs-1950
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