BITTER SPRINGS
(Ealing Studios) HERE iis a good deal of virtue in this story of pioneer sheepfarmers in South Australia and their conflicts with a tough natural environment and hostile aborigines. Bitter Springs is the third. film starring Chips Rafferty to be made. in Australia for the J. Arthur Rank organisation. It is better than Eureka Stockade, but not as good as The Overlanders. Both of the previous films were made by Harry Watt. Bitter Springs was directed by Ralph Smart, who also wrote the story on which it is based. He has a better feeling for landscape than Harry Watt, and there are some good shots of the vast southern plains. But his handling of his human material is often quite crude. The best sequences involved wild life-a boy trying to catch a baby kangaroo, and a ritual kangaroo-hunt by aborigines armed with spears. The plot is routine stuff-trek across the plains during which the stock nearly perish from lack of water, arrival at the valley where a home igs built, and the battle with the natives, who burn down the house but eventually become reconciled to the white man’s invasion. Besides Chips Rafferty, there are Tommy Trinder and Gordon Jackson (the schoolteacher in Whisky Galore), and Noni Piper and Jean Blue supply the feminine interest.
BAROMETER FAIR: "The Mudlark."’ MAINLY FAIR: "Bitter Springs.’
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 24, Issue 623, 8 June 1951, Page 9
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225BITTER SPRINGS New Zealand Listener, Volume 24, Issue 623, 8 June 1951, Page 9
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