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Film Details - Ealing Studios , 1950
Producers:
Michael Balcon (Producer)
Leslie Norman (Associate Producer)
Eric Williams (Executive Producer)
Production Companies:
Ealing Studios
Director of Photography:
George Heath
Editors:
Bernard Gribble
Production Designers:
Charles Woolveridge
Composer:
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Cast:
Incl. Tommy Trinder (Tommy), Chips Rafferty (Wally King), Gordon Jackson (Mac), Jean Blue (Ma King), Michael Pate (Trooper), Charles 'Bud' Tingwell (John King), Nonnie Piper (Emma King), Nicky Yardley (Charlie), Henry Murdoch (Blackjack), and Clyde Combo (stockman).
Release Dates:
1. 23 June 1950 (West's Theatre, Adelaide, South Australia - world premiere). Later released in the UK (6 July 1950), USA (1951), Japan (4 July 1951), Austria (1952), and Sweden (28 April 1952).
2. Released on videocassette format in 2002 by ScreenSound Australia. Polygram Video
Location:
- Filmed on location in the Flinders Ranges, Quorn, Warren Gorge, and Yarrah Vale (South Australia). Interior scenes filmed at the Pagewood Studios, Sydney (NSW).
Notes:
1. Numerous stills from the film production are held by the National Film and Sound Archive.
2. Also known as Överfallet vid Bitter Springs (Sweden); Die Quelle von Karagarni (Austria); Epithesis Anthropofagon (Greece).
3. Further reference: Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper. Australian Film 1900-1977, A Guide to Feature Film Production (1980, q.v.), pp. 275-276.
4. Reviews of Bitter Springs were published in:
- Monthly Film Bulletin August 1950, n. pag.
- Observer (London) 9 July 1950, n. pag.
- Film Weekly 26 October 1950, n. pag.
Settings:
- Northern Territory,
