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Tommy Trinder and in

BITTER SPRINGS

Approved MPAA certificate - logo No. 15913 Gaumont-Kalee - logo Sound RCA system - logo

Copyright MCML by Ealing Studios Limited with Gordon Jackson and Jean Blue Michael Pate Charles Tingwell Nonnie Piper Nicky Yardley Henry Murdock (sic - Murdoch)

The events and characters portrayed in this film are fictitious and any similarity to any incident, name or individual is coincidental.

Screenplay by W. P. Lipscomb M. Danischewsky

From an original story by Ralph Smart

Production Executive Eric Williams

Editor Bernard Gribble

Director of Photography George Heath

Unit Production Manager Jack Rix Art Director Charles Woolveridge Assistant Directors Michael Forlong David Moore Camera Operator Ross Wood Sound Supervisor Stephen Dalby Recordist H. E. R. Wetzel Sound Editor Mary Habberfield Continuity Meg Smart Make-up Tom Shenton Wardrobe Jane Crichton

Music by Vaughan Williams

Supplemented, arranged and directed by Ernest Irving

Played by the Philharmonia Orchestra

A Michael Balcon Production

Associate Producer

Directed by Ralph Smart

Title: We desire to acknowledge the assistance rendered by the Premier of South , the Government Tourist Bureau and the Aborigines Protection Board of South Australia in the production of this film.

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Narrator:

Nineteen hundred. Sheep country's getting pretty scarce around the Australian coast, families are growing, land that was big enough for dad is too small for his sons and their families, you need room to grow, you need land, new land. So folks like Wally King and his brood decide to pack up traps and move, six hundred miles across plains, across desert and across mountains, to take up the new land about which they know nuthin. It's just a dot on the map they're making for, and a big map at that …

(The credits don't provide a conventional cast list):

Tommy Trinder Tommy Chips Rafferty Wally King Gordon Jackson Mac Jean Blue Ma King Michael Pate Trooper Charles Tingwell John King Nonnie Piper Emma King Nicky Yardley Charlie Henry Murdock (sic) Black Jack

With the exception of Murdoch, no aboriginal actors are credited.