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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Mono ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Black & White, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: British comic actor Tommy Trinder and Australia's biggest film star Chips Rafferty teamed up for the 1950 film BITTER SPRINGS. The plot is propelled along by Rafferty, who intrudes on the sacred hunting grounds of an aborigine tribe. Though tempers flare, everyone eventually buries the hatchet. The film is sentimental in the extreme, but is pulled off with a minimum of syrup. BITTER SPRINGS was directed by future SECRET AGENT and THE AVENGERS stalwart Ralph Smart. ...Bitter Springs
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Why buy this obscure and largely forgotten film? Because it was a genuine attempt to say something serious about the violent history of settlers and aborigines in Australia. It's not perfect. The comic relief by Tommy Trinder is a case in point! But it tried to show to British audiences in the post-war years something they would probably have never have otherwise known about: what happened to the indigenous population when white settlers moved into the Australian outback.
Sure, the acting's a bit creaky in parts, and the ending is sort of bizarre (there's a story that Ralph Smart was forced to change his dark ending which included the massacre of the indigenous tribe for a happy ending in order to get government approval to shoot the movie), but along the way it is a real insight into what British film makers (including Australian expats like Ralph Smart) thought about serious topics like colonialism. And along the way, you get some great performances from Chips Rafferty (as the hardened settler who can only see "his" way), Michael Pate (as the frontier ranger who understands only too well what will happen to the Aborigines when the settlers move in), and Gordon Jackson (as the sensitive Scot who tries to see both sides of the story). Hey, even Tommy Trinder isn't too bad!
It's a product of its time, and a real insight into that time. And that's why you should buy it.
Sure, the acting's a bit creaky in parts, and the ending is sort of bizarre (there's a story that Ralph Smart was forced to change his dark ending which included the massacre of the indigenous tribe for a happy ending in order to get government approval to shoot the movie), but along the way it is a real insight into what British film makers (including Australian expats like Ralph Smart) thought about serious topics like colonialism. And along the way, you get some great performances from Chips Rafferty (as the hardened settler who can only see "his" way), Michael Pate (as the frontier ranger who understands only too well what will happen to the Aborigines when the settlers move in), and Gordon Jackson (as the sensitive Scot who tries to see both sides of the story). Hey, even Tommy Trinder isn't too bad!
It's a product of its time, and a real insight into that time. And that's why you should buy it.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I bought this film which is very much of its time although the subject matter is increasingly a matter of history not for the story but because the soundtrack is music composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Not quite as well known as his music for other films such as Scott of the Antarctic but very worthwhile non the less.
0 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Old time oldies are just great the changes in them compared to now are really different, you can see the change and the way things were done.
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